Environment
Banning cars in major cities would rapidly improve millions of lives
News
This week's magazine
27 October 2018
Issue 3201
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart
News
Mind
Memory FAQ: Answers to the common questions that baffle us all
Features
Mind
Memory special: How can two people recall an event so differently?
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to memories over time?
Features
Technology
Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is your memory normal?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you trust your memories?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?
Features
Life
Why alligators, wolves and mountain lions are turning up in odd places
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you supercharge your memory?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Do we even know what memory is for?
Features
Mind
Why memories are an illusion and forgetting is good for you
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Health
Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking
Banning cars from city centres used to be unthinkable 鈥� but evidence of the harms they do, and the huge benefits of getting rid of them, mean we should think it
News
Technology
Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart
News
快猫短视频
Technology
Inside the European Union’s high-tech nerve agent attack simulation
A large simulation of a nerve agent attack last week tested a suite of advanced tools for diagnosing, treating and containing chemical and biological incidents
News
Space
The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury
News
Physics
Nobel laureates sign letter expressing Brexit concerns
News
Technology
President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty
News
Technology
World鈥檚 longest sea bridge opens between Hong Kong and mainland China
News
Technology
Huge online Trolley Problem survey reveals people’s cultural bias
News
Technology
Tiny supercomputers could be made from the skeleton inside your cells
News
Earth
Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon
News
Space
Salty Martian groundwater may have enough oxygen to support life
News
Space
7 explanations for why mysterious radio bursts are coming from space
News
Technology
AI makes new video games by watching people play Super Mario and Kirby
News
Health
WHO calls for ban on 鈥榲irginity tests鈥�, including those used by police
News
Technology
AI tries to help you protect your children from cyberbullying
News
Life
Old honeybees make a drumming sound to get young slackers working
News
Health
Hot baths could improve depression as much as physical exercise
News
Physics
Gravitational waves from black hole pairs could act like tractor beams
News
Life
Mantis shrimps punch with the force of a bullet – and now we know how
News
Mind
Your brain is like 100 billion mini-computers all working together
News
Technology
Special coating gives condoms self-lubricating powers
News
Life
Male birds can be good singers or good looking, but not both
News
Health
Pregnancy changes how hundreds of genes work in a woman’s body
News
Life
World’s oldest fossils might turn out to just be ancient rocks
News
Space
Cosmic supercluster is largest object ever seen in the early universe
News
Health
Nicotine exposure in male mice may trigger ADHD in their offspring
News
Mind
Your genes affect which university you go to but that鈥檚 no surprise
News
Analysis
Environment
Banning cars in major cities would rapidly improve millions of lives
Cities are starting to experiment with banning cars from their streets and the benefits to health and well-being could be enormous
News
Comment
Banning straws isn’t enough. We must get serious about climate change
News
Comment
Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn鈥檛 be such hard work
News
Features
Life
Why alligators, wolves and mountain lions are turning up in odd places
Predators are thriving in places they shouldn't, revealing some serious misunderstandings about their behaviour and how to protect them
Features
Mind
Why memories are an illusion and forgetting is good for you
Features
Mind
Memory special: Do we even know what memory is for?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you supercharge your memory?
Features
Mind
Memory FAQ: Answers to the common questions that baffle us all
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to your memories while you sleep?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you choose what to forget?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Can you trust your memories?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is technology making your memory worse?
Features
Mind
Memory special: Is your memory normal?
Features
Mind
Memory special: What happens to memories over time?
Features
Mind
Memory special: How can two people recall an event so differently?
Features
Technology
Forget quantum laptops, our quantum computing future is in the cloud
Features
Culture
Life
Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck’s Revenge are genetic misfits
Two new books make big claims, but prove only that reports of the death of Darwinism have been greatly exaggerated
Culture
Life
Don’t miss 鈥� time travel anime, overpopulation and skewed food science
Culture
Physics
Dawns, Mine, Crystal review 鈥� art with a crafty message for science
Culture
Comment
Paywall: The business of scholarship review 鈥� analysis of a scandal
Culture
