Environment
There’s little doubt we’re to blame for hurricanes getting worse
News
This week's magazine
3 November 2018
Issue 3202
Editor's picks
Physics
The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism
News
Humans
Don’t teach kids 鈥� I’ve shown their hive mind can learn on its own
Features
Earth
Why Earth’s water could be older than Earth itself
Features
Mind
The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing ‘head orgasms’
Features
Physics
Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Technology
AI lie detection at border control should proceed with caution
A new tool that uses AI to help make border control decisions will only be advisory, but history shows people give technology too much weight
News
Physics
The LIGO collaboration must respond to gravitational wave criticism
News
快猫短视频
Earth
Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times
A rash of recent earthquakes in Lancashire, UK has prompted fracking operations to halt temporarily on six separate occasions
News
Life
Wild populations of animals have crashed by 60 per cent
News
Environment
Brazil鈥檚 new president will make it harder to limit climate change
News
Health
Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren’t breastfed after 6 weeks
News
Technology
An AI lie detector will interrogate travellers at some EU borders
News
Life
Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites
News
Physics
There is a weird new state of matter that can’t be stirred or pushed
News
Health
People who gave up smoking cannabis had a memory boost within a week
News
Environment
A freak 1870s climate event caused drought across three continents
News
Life
Orangutans are exceptionally good at keeping their infants alive
News
Space
Earth may have a pair of ‘ghost moons’ made of dust trapped in orbit
News
Mathematics
Physicists are turning to Lewis Carroll for help with their maths
News
Technology
NATO’s huge military exercise will test robots and autonomous vehicles
News
Health
Creams remove skin sun spots with minimal pain and may prevent cancer
News
Life
Huddling for warmth gives animals a more efficient gut microbiome
News
Physics
The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing
News
Life
Dinosaur fossil may be a whole new species of the first birds
News
Technology
Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description
News
Environment
Humpback whales stop singing when cargo ships make a lot of noise
News
Life
Bird-like lungs may have helped dinosaurs rule the world
News
Health
New clues to unravelling link between pregnancy and breast cancer risk
News
Life
Crashing waves may have spurred the evolution of backbones
News
Technology
Zapping liquid metal makes it move in a way that can power wheels
News
Health
Skin tans the most when spending every other day out of the sun
News
Health
Bone hormone released during exercise may lead to new memory-loss drug
News
Analysis
Environment
There’s little doubt we’re to blame for hurricanes getting worse
Climate scientists are still scrapping over the details, but the increased ferocity, unpredictability and spread of tropical storms is in line with predictions
News
Technology
Venezuela鈥檚 cryptocurrency is about much more than its economic crisis
News
Comment
快猫短视频s should use their clout to get a less bad Brexit for all
News
Environment
Trump is wrong 鈥� millions of Americans breathe badly polluted air
News
Features
Physics
Exclusive: Grave doubts over LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves
The news we had finally found ripples in space-time reverberated around the world in 2015. Now it seems they might have been an illusion
Features
Mind
The truth behind ASMR and the craze for videos causing ‘head orgasms’
Features
Earth
Why Earth’s water could be older than Earth itself
Features
Humans
Don’t teach kids 鈥� I’ve shown their hive mind can learn on its own
Features
Culture
Technology
The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist
Rule-breaking technology is challenging the evidence base on which all functioning societies depend. Two books explore the problem and how to fight back
Culture
Technology
What it’s like to play Call of Duty in a blacker-than-black room
Culture
Health
Don’t Miss: a dance in virtual space, playable painting and podcasts
Culture
Space
Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration
Culture
