This week's magazine
12 May 2018
Issue 3177
On the cover
Editor's picks
News
Earth
It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect
News
Physics
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?
Features
Health
Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat
Features
Humans
Deluded drivers: The startling discovery that changed psychology
Features
Earth
Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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The flexible therapy that helps beat workplace stress
We need to change the way we think about work and how it influences our lives, says chartered psychologist Rob Archer
News
Earth
Ancient humans in Philippines may have given rise to ‘hobbits’
News
Space
NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes
News
Humans
There is no secret burial chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb
News
Earth
Hawaii volcano is causing havoc and will spew lava for days
News
Health
Ketamine ingredient improves severe depression in large trial
News
Health
First US death due to romaine lettuce as E. coli outbreak widens
News
Health
Creative people are 90 per cent more likely to get schizophrenia
News
Physics
Alan Turing inspired a faster way to make seawater drinkable
News
Earth
Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon
News
Space
Stars from outside the Milky Way seen zooming through the galaxy
News
Technology
Brexit and Trump votes screwed with our heart rates for months
News
Environment
Monkey face recognition app can help spot endangered primates
News
Environment
Flying beetle cyborgs guided with tiny battery-powered backpacks
News
Physics
Quantum internet is one step closer thanks to new theory
News
Environment
Mistletoe’s cells are broken at a fundamental level
News
Humans
AI can predict your personality just by how your eyes move
News
Earth
Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought
News
Environment
People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
News
Health
Mediterranean diet delays Alzheimer’s for three extra years
News
Technology
AI that deletes people from photos makes rewriting history easy
News
Health
Your bones contain crystals shaped like fingers and hands
News
Space
Colossal exoplanet has an enormous comet-like tail of helium
News
Earth
Giant sea spiders sit and wait for prey to knock themselves out
News
Physics
Laser-sticker contacts could let you shoot beams from your eyes
News
Analysis
Earth
China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?
Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment
News
Earth
Are we deluding ourselves when we shop for eco-friendly stuff?
News
Health
A male pill will be a breakthrough for science but not for women
News
Space
The UK’s plan to build a rival GPS is a bonkers Brexit scheme
News
Features
Physics
Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?
A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars – and a weird effect astronomers are struggling to explain
Features
Earth
Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests
Features
Health
Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat
Features
Humans
Deluded drivers: The startling discovery that changed psychology
Features
Culture
Earth
Magical regrowth: Kew Gardens opens revamped Temperate House
Restoring the world’s largest Victorian glasshouse to its former architectural glory at the UK’s famous gardens has also reinvented it for the 21st century
Culture
Environment
Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures
Culture