Health
The death of 9-year-old girl may be a tipping point for air pollution
News
This week's magazine
21 July 2018
Issue 3187
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
We cannot breathe easily when deadly air threatens young children
News
Health
How an AI expert鈥檚 cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: What makes someone smarter than others?
Features
Humans
Specky geeks and airheads? The truth behind intelligence stereotypes
Features
Mind
The truth about intelligence: Are bigheads smarter than pea brains?
Features
Space
Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
Features
Life
How dodgy sausages are saving a cute marsupial from toxic toads
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: How useful is a high IQ?
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: Do IQ tests really work?
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: Can I become cleverer?
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: What is it really?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Humans
Why we shouldn’t blame the world’s woes on the stupidity of others
It's easy to think the world is gripped by a collective failure of human intelligence. But the facts don't bear that out 鈥� and we should beware our own biases
News
Health
We cannot breathe easily when deadly air threatens young children
News
快猫短视频
Mind
We’ve started to uncover the true purpose of dreams
For the first time, researchers have got evidence that dreams help soothe the impact of emotional events in our lives, acting like overnight therapy
News
UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021
News
Technology
Robots and AI will actually create more jobs than they take
News
Earth
Weird ‘wind drought’ means Britain’s turbines are at a standstill
News
Space
Tiny planets full of diamonds have been created in the lab
News
Earth
Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
News
Humans
Why chivalry remains attractive to some women despite being sexist
News
Technology
Think your surfing is secret in private browsing mode? Think again
News
Space
We鈥檝e found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter 鈥� and one is probably doomed
News
Technology
DeepMind AI takes IQ tests to probe its ability for abstract thought
News
Health
Dopamine levels in our brains affect the risks we鈥檙e happy to take
News
Technology
Facebook’s AI tourist learns to navigate New York by asking directions
News
Life
Honeybees gang up to roast invading hornets alive 鈥� at a terrible cost
News
Physics
Violent black holes spit neutrinos at Earth and we finally caught one
News
Technology
Drones are checking up on insurance claims to look for fraudsters
News
Health
How our bodies are rapidly colonised by bacteria when we’re born
News
Environment
England’s marshes may start to retreat and disappear in just 20 years
News
Health
High blood pressure in older people linked to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
News
Health
Ear implant lets deaf gerbils sense sound from light signals
News
Life
Ancient Romans may have killed off whale species in the Mediterranean
News
Physics
Tiny sensors in your phone could be made from recycled wood
News
Physics
Artificial skin grown from spider silk could help heal wounds
News
Life
We now know why horses snort – because they’re happy
News
Space
Tornadoes on the sun could blast hot plasma towards Earth
News
Analysis
Physics
Trump’s meeting with Putin may have had a surprise nuclear twist
On Monday, Vladimir Putin said he鈥檇 given Donald Trump a note with suggestions on disarmament. This might be the first move in extending an important agreement
News
Health
The death of 9-year-old girl may be a tipping point for air pollution
News
Humans
Elon Musk鈥檚 submarine plan to rescue Thai cave boys deserves respect
News
Environment
Prolific 鈥楳25 serial killer鈥� beheading cats is an old feline foe
News
Health
Eight cups of coffee a day make you live longer? Don’t bet on it
News
Can countries divesting from fossil fuels halt climate change?
News
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: What is it really?
Far from being an indefinable concept, a single measure of intelligence underpins our problem-solving, musicality and even creativity and emotional skills
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: Can I become cleverer?
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: Do IQ tests really work?
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: What makes someone smarter than others?
Features
Humans
Specky geeks and airheads? The truth behind intelligence stereotypes
Features
Humans
The truth about intelligence: How useful is a high IQ?
Features
Mind
The truth about intelligence: Are bigheads smarter than pea brains?
Features
Life
How dodgy sausages are saving a cute marsupial from toxic toads
Features
Space
Why weird star systems are where we’ll find alien life
Features
Health
How an AI expert鈥檚 cancer diagnosis may lead to a treatment revolution
Features
Culture
Humans
The complex and unfolding story of heredity shows genes鈥� true place
Inheritance is about so much more than the handing on of a genetic baton down the centuries, argues a nuanced new book, She Has Her Mother鈥檚 Laugh
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: The story of 脰tzi, Kew’s summer frolics, and medical 3D
Culture
Life
The Endless: low budget scifi movie asks high-rent questions
Culture
