Health
NHS is switching to cheaper mimics of expensive cancer drugs
News
This week's magazine
6 January 2018
Issue 3159
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
With political will, we can solve the global vision crisis
News
Health
The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year
Features
Space
Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit
Features
Health
Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu
Features
Environment
Luck of the devil: How a Tasmanian icon is outwitting cancer
Features
Health
Eye phone: The doctor using tech to restore the world鈥檚 sight
Features
Health
Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time
Features
Health
Jab in the dark: Why we don鈥檛 have a universal flu vaccine
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Health
Can listening to a low hum destroy Alzheimer鈥檚 brain plaques?
Flickering light, low sounds and vibrating pads are all being tried out in people with Alzheimer鈥檚 after promising research in mice
News
Health
Research on short-fall injuries quashes 鈥榮haken baby鈥� verdict
News
Health
Californians can now buy marijuana for recreational use
News
Earth
China tackles climate change with world’s largest carbon market
News
Space
NASA plans a launch to Titan or a return to comet 67P in 2025
News
Humans
Love at first sight is really just lust or even false memory
News
Life
Odd fossils hint first complex life hung on long after its time
News
Technology
Human or robot? Google’s speech generator makes it hard to tell
News
Earth
Our lust for tastier chocolate has transformed the cocoa tree
News
Health
Video gaming disorder to be officially recognised for first time
News
Earth
Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners
News
Health
Booby-trapped obstacle course trains older people not to fall
News
Health
3D-printed implant mends broken legs by turning into real bone
News
Physics
Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes
News
Health
Your body fat may be protecting you against infections
News
Space
The universe may be full of ex-moons flung from their home worlds
News
Space
Earth was smashed by a rock the size of Mars to make the moon
News
Health
One-off CRISPR treatment slows genetic hearing loss in mice
News
Earth
Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change
News
Technology
Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster
News
Earth
Plants use sand armour to break teeth of attacking caterpillars
News
Environment
Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there
News
Environment
After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up
News
Health
The body鈥檚 killer immune cells also feed fetuses in the womb
News
Analysis
Health
NHS is switching to cheaper mimics of expensive cancer drugs
Biological drugs like some antibodies used to fight cancer are difficult to make. The NHS is now turning to cheaper alternatives, but some doctors fear they won鈥檛 work as well
News
Humans
Will supersonic air travel’s return be another white elephant?
News
Health
Why the internet’s CiCo calorie count diet won’t keep weight off
News
Life
China’s plan to stop recycling the world’s rubbish may backfire
News
Features
Health
The epidemic on the way: Why winter flu is so bad this year
Flu is an underestimated killer, taking more than a million lives around the globe annually. This time, the mutated virus seems to be hitting even harder
Features
Health
Stopping the spread: What you can do to prevent flu
Features
Health
Jab in the dark: Why we don鈥檛 have a universal flu vaccine
Features
Space
Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit
Features
Health
Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time
Features
Environment
Luck of the devil: How a Tasmanian icon is outwitting cancer
Features
Health
Eye phone: The doctor using tech to restore the world鈥檚 sight
Features
Culture
Health
The books and ideas that will shape the year ahead
From human evolution to genetics, neuroscience to cosmology, 快猫短视频 picks the books to look out for in 2018
Culture
Technology
Our pick of the best science shows to attend in 2018
Culture
Humans
You鈥檝e just crossed over鈥� The Twilight Zone takes to the stage
Culture
