This week's magazine
Editor's picks
News
Earth
Acid lakes may be a false alarm but we can’t afford complacency
News
Humans
Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse
Features
Humans
The original social justice warrior who smashed stereotypes
Features
Mathematics
Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
Features
Earth
Acid bath: The new threat to lakes and rivers
Features
Table of contents
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Why better data laws will change the nature of business
A new set of laws governing personal data is the game-changer that all businesses need, says Sam Handfield-Jones of Octopus
News
Earth
Oxygen may have helped complex life arise a billion years early
News
Technology
Russia cuts off Google and Amazon by trying to ban Telegram app
News
Health
War veteran gets world’s first penis and scrotum transplant
News
Earth
Almost 1500 bird species face extinction and we’re to blame
News
Space
NASA has launched a new space telescope to hunt for exoplanets
News
Earth
Ants build a medieval ‘torture rack’ to catch grasshoppers
News
Technology
The US army has made a virtual North Korea to train its soldiers
News
Earth
Worst mass extinctions may have been caused by rising mountains
News
Environment
Poking tiny dents into solar panels makes them work better
News
Health
Finger-prick test reveals fetus’s sex in the first trimester
News
Space
Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet
News
Environment
Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it
News
Health
More education is what makes people live longer, not more money
News
Space
Distant Jupiter-like world may be the darkest planet ever found
News
Earth
Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them
News
Health
Grandchildren of migrants more likely to get anxiety problems
News
Technology
Driverless cars are dodging pedestrians and pheasants in Oxford
News
Physics
Super-tough diamonds have been made bendy and springy
News
Health
Bioengineered freckle turns darker when it detects cancer
News
Space
Shredded galaxy is disintegrating before our eyes after smash-up
News
Technology
Millions of censored web pages discovered in massive study
News
Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria cross oceans hidden in cargo ships
News
Environment
Male fruit flies feel pleasure when they ejaculate
News
Technology
Watch robots assemble a flat-pack IKEA chair in just 9 minutes
News
Health
Getting just 6 hours of sleep is linked to mental health issues
News
Analysis
Technology
Austerity has put UK forensic labs in crisis and justice at risk
Thousands of criminal cases are under review, forensic labs are failing to meet basic standards and some are just going bust. Where did it all go wrong?
News
Life
To help heal the Korean peninsula try scientific cooperation too
News
Technology
Big tech can digitally erase us – do we need new protections?
News
Health
New blood pressure guidelines could do more harm than good
News
Features
Mathematics
Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes
For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize
Features
Humans
Origin of our species: Why humans were once so much more diverse
Features
Earth
Acid bath: The new threat to lakes and rivers
Features
Humans
The original social justice warrior who smashed stereotypes
Features
Culture
Earth
How can India clean up when all of its waste has an afterlife?
Waste has a complicated cultural significance in India. A new book looks at how that affects the country's efforts to get clean
Culture
Environment
Blossoms: The complex secrets of spring’s simple beauty
Culture
Health
The Heart of the Matter: An artful show helps heal broken hearts
Culture