Health
No contraceptive is perfect, but can you trust apps to stop pregnancy?
News
This week's magazine
18 August 2018
Issue 3191
Editor's picks
Health
Don’t restrict women’s contraception rights through moral panic
News
Earth
NASA鈥檚 deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
Features
Environment
Meet the ‘climate kids’ suing the US government over global warming
Features
Life
Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds
Features
Physics
This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Environment
Send in the lawyers to win the fight against climate change
A rash of court cases is challenging governments and fossil-fuel interests on climate inaction. Some question whether such actions are legitimate 鈥� they are
News
Health
Don’t restrict women’s contraception rights through moral panic
News
快猫短视频
Physics
Weird circles in the sky may be signs of a universe before ours
A theory suggesting that the universe is constantly reborn could be proved right by 鈥楬awking points鈥� 鈥� signs of evaporated black holes from a time before the big bang
News
Technology
DeepMind’s AI can spot eye disease just as well as top doctors
News
Space
NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the sun, via Venus
News
Environment
New Zealand becomes the latest country to ban plastic bags
News
Health
Sticking brain cells together with glue could boost and protect memory
News
Environment
Rock layers show our sun has been in same cycle for 700 million years
News
Environment
Sterile fish could help wild salmon dodge the 鈥榞ene pollution鈥� effect
News
Mind
We’ve identified the brain cells that let you control urination
News
Environment
Why forecasting how hot it will be in 2022 is mostly a gimmick
News
Earth
Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth
News
Technology
US police testing AI that learns to spot crimes in CCTV footage
News
Physics
Google just made it much harder to build a serious quantum computer
News
Mind
Bots on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk are ruining psychology studies
News
Technology
US Navy wants to fire a slime cannon at boats to stop them escaping
News
Environment
Another supervolcano in California is not as dormant as we thought
News
Humans
‘Hey’: short messages are the best dating site strategy, study says
News
Physics
Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste
News
Humans
Tools reveal Easter Island may not have had a societal collapse
News
Life
We have measured the speed of death and it鈥檚 2 millimetres an hour
News
Health
Inducing labour at 39 weeks leads to fewer emergency Caesareans
News
Physics
High-speed electrons prove Einstein was right about the speed of light
News
Environment
Alien grass is making California wildfires three times as frequent
News
Health
Tight underwear really is linked to lower sperm counts in men
News
Space
Neutron stars bend light so much we see their front and back at once
News
Earth
The Meg: Real Megalodon shark would eat Jason Statham for breakfast
News
Analysis
Technology
Fortnite is coming to Android, but players risk downloading malware
When blockbuster game Fortnite hits Android phones, gamers will be able to get it outside Google Play, which could leave them vulnerable to scams
News
Health
No contraceptive is perfect, but can you trust apps to stop pregnancy?
News
Humans
It’s time to embrace video games as an Olympic sport
News
Health
Gluten-free dogs? Pets deserve better than this evidence-free fad
News
Earth
Don鈥檛 give up, we can survive even a Hothouse Earth
News
Features
Physics
This one particle could solve five mega-mysteries of physics
Forget the Higgs: theorists have uncovered a missing link that explains dark matter, what happened in the big bang and more. Now they鈥檙e racing to find it
Features
Life
Banana-y bread and onion beer: How yeast can trick our tastebuds
Features
Earth
NASA鈥檚 deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
Features
Environment
Meet the ‘climate kids’ suing the US government over global warming
Features
Culture
Environment
How women are rallying round the cause of climate injustice
From natural disasters to food and water shortages, women are more affected by climate change than men. An inspiring podcast looks at their fightback 鈥� starting in court
Culture
Life
Don’t Miss: surreal objects, loving termites, and ethical dilemmas
Culture
Environment
How a tiny festival could save Scotland’s coastal culture
Culture
Regulars
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