Environment
Cape Town is about to run out of water 鈥� how did this happen?
News
This week's magazine
17 February 2018
Issue 3165
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
Should we revisit ethically dubious experiments from the past?
News
Physics
Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now
Features
Humans
Real-life Lord of the Flies experiment led us up the warpath
Features
Environment
Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants’ scent messages
Features
Earth
World without sand: The race to save a precious resource
Features
Humans
Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Technology
The best way to take down a drone is with another drone
Illegal or unwanted drones put air travellers at risk, so a competition called DroneClash is calling for new ways to tackle them
News
Earth
Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm
News
Space
NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station funding
News
Health
Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern England
News
Technology
Face-recognition software is perfect 鈥� if you鈥檙e a white man
News
Environment
Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds clean
News
Space
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
News
Earth
Australia鈥檚 deadly 1800s storms help us predict future extremes
News
Health
Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisers
News
Physics
Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational waves
News
Earth
The worst mass extinction may have begun with mass sterilisation
News
Earth
Oldest dog burial suggests prehistoric humans loved dogs as pets
News
Technology
Online chatter could give warning of incoming cyber attacks
News
Health
First glimpse of how genes may cause mental health problems
News
Technology
Chinese police use face recognition glasses to catch criminals
News
Space
Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad?
News
Health
Primitive human eggs matured in the lab for the first time
News
Physics
Super-accurate atomic clock used in real world for first time
News
Environment
Birds ‘dream sing’ by moving their vocal muscles in their sleep
News
Humans
App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts
News
Earth
Deep-sea fish lay eggs near hydrothermal vents to keep them warm
News
Health
Training parents to work in hospitals benefits premature babies
News
Health
A much better asthma drug has shown promise in early experiments
News
Earth
Beetles escape alive after almost 2 hours in a toad鈥檚 stomach
News
Physics
Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth
News
Sponsored
How clever biochemistry is tackling HIV
News
Analysis
Environment
Cape Town is about to run out of water 鈥� how did this happen?
Cape Town's water reserves are so low that it may soon have to turn off the taps. We鈥檝e known for a decade that this could happen, but almost nothing has been done
News
Physics
Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?
News
Environment
It’s time to label all meat as stunned or unstunned at slaughter
News
Health
We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save lives
News
Features
Physics
Quantum time machine: How the future can change what happens now
The idea that the future can influence the past may finally explain the inherent randomness of quantum theory and bring it in line with Einstein's space-time
Features
Environment
Dirty talk: How pollution is snuffing out plants’ scent messages
Features
Earth
World without sand: The race to save a precious resource
Features
Humans
Meet the mafias making buckets of cash from illegal sand
Features
Humans
Real-life Lord of the Flies experiment led us up the warpath
Features
Culture
Health
William Harvey: The delightful inside story of blood
He spent 10 painstaking years working out how our blood really circulates: 17th-century physician William Harvey deserves his own London exhibition
Culture
Humans
Our cities are driving evolution and it’s not all bad news
Culture
Technology
Data as Culture: Humour and absurdity stalk the internet
Culture
