This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Environment
Extreme weather finally brings home the reality of climate change
Health
This doctor risked her career to end Flint’s water-poisoning crisis
Technology
Robot laws: Why we need a code of conduct for AI – and fast
Earth
Extreme heat: Why its origins could lie deep in the Atlantic
Health
Medical cannabis: What you really need to know
Table of contents
Leaders
Health
The medical cannabis debate is a chance to put science before dogma
Neither extreme prohibition nor extreme liberalism is a sensible drugs policy – on medical cannabis and elsewhere, let’s see what the facts say
Environment
Extreme weather finally brings home the reality of climate change
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Health
VR headset helps people who are legally blind see again
A VR headset has helped people who are legally blind see again. While it didn’t cure their blindness, they were able to resume activities they previously found impossible
Space
NASA’s plans to end the ISS could put its Mars missions in danger
Environment
Climate change made Europe’s heatwave twice as likely to happen
Environment
It’s official: gene-edited products will be classed as GMOs in the EU
Space
Terraforming Mars might be impossible due to a lack of carbon dioxide
Humans
A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells
Health
One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain
Technology
AI creates Shakespearean sonnets – and they’re actually quite good
Health
Women have more miscarriages than live births over their lifetime
Earth
Mass graves found on Scottish islands may be ancient tsunami victims
Life
Many chimps are active at night but we don’t know what they do
Technology
Face recognition screens egg donors so your child will look like you
Physics
The uranium hunters: Inside the school that trains nuclear inspectors
Health
Drug to treat endometriosis pain first to be approved in over a decade
Physics
Starlight stretched by Milky Way’s black hole proves Einstein right
Life
Rare half-female, half-male cricket leads a complicated life
Environment
Only 13 per cent of the world’s oceans are considered a wilderness
Physics
Self-healing graphene could make robots that fix themselves with water
Health
Why cuts in your mouth heal 10 times faster than skin wounds
Technology
Cracking down on illegal cannabis with edible barcodes and blockchains
Life
Parasite fungus sends insects on sex spree by loading them up on drugs
Technology
This mind-controlled robotic arm lets you do two things at once
Health
Business students more likely to have a brain parasite spread by cats
Analysis
Environment
Our buildings make this heatwave worse – here’s how to cool them down
Many buildings in cool countries are poorly designed to cope with heat, and new homes and offices are even worse. Thousands will die if we don’t fix them
Earth
Earth Overshoot Day – what to make of this moment of reckoning?
Health
The scientific guide to stockpiling food for a ‘no deal’ Brexit
Features
Earth
Extreme heat: Why its origins could lie deep in the Atlantic
Swathes of the northern hemisphere are smashing temperature records. Could it be because we’ve broken the ocean currents that stabilise our weather?
Health
Medical cannabis: What you really need to know
Technology
Robot laws: Why we need a code of conduct for AI – and fast
Health
This doctor risked her career to end Flint’s water-poisoning crisis
Culture
Technology
There’s no escaping the internet, says artist James Bridle
In New Dark Age, James Bridle expends no little shoe leather mapping the current walls of our eerie futuristic home, in the real and the virtual realm