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How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes?
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This week's magazine
10 November 2018
Issue 3203
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Editor's picks
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Physics
Women in physics: Why there’s a problem and how we can solve it
Features
Life
The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me
Features
Space
Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in – and it’s wild out there
Features
Mind
There’s a dark side to self-control. Here’s why you should loosen up
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Physics
Swelling the number of women in physics will require a broad alliance
From school to the workplace, we know what changes are needed to improve the appalling gender imbalance in physics, but everyone needs to step up
News
Environment
If Finland struggles to recycle, what hope the rest of the world?
News
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快猫短视频
Humans
Fines for misuse of data in the UK ahead of EU referendum
The UK's data watchdog intends to fine campaign group Leave. EU and insurance firm GoSkippy more than 拢130,000 for data law breaches related to the EU referendum
News
Physics
LIGO to publish new paper in wake of 快猫短视频 investigation
News
Environment
Pacific island to ban some sun creams in a bid to save its coral reefs
News
Environment
Frustrated climate activists resort to civil disobedience in London
News
Space
The first detailed look at how Elon Musk’s space internet could work
News
Space
The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on
News
Environment
More than 60 prescription drugs are getting into river foodchains
News
Health
Your gut is full of neurons and they are replaced every 2 weeks
News
Environment
Finland’s long, hard road to creating a circular economy
News
Technology
Your old, unwanted clothes can be turned into building materials
News
Health
Why air travel makes deadly disease pandemics less likely
News
Physics
A zap from a laser could make bigger quantum computers possible
News
Humans
Neanderthals may have breastfed their young for more than two years
News
Technology
AI’s weirdest creations include beef truffles and diving board hats
News
Technology
US army tool will automatically inject an antidote during a gas attack
News
Health
Health risks increase for babies born to fathers aged 45 or over
News
Technology
AI wades into the debate on age of ancient Chinese cave murals
News
Environment
Cutting aerosol pollution may lessen extreme weather even with warming
News
Space
Our neighbouring galaxy is dying as it leaks gas at an alarming rate
News
Health
Parkinson鈥檚 disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain
News
Health
Spinal implants are getting better at reversing paralysis
News
Life
Birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for their colourful eggs
News
Life
We can tell whether pandas are mating successfully by their bleats
News
Analysis
Health
How worrying is it that more and more teens are using e-cigarettes?
Many are alarmed by the fast-rising popularity of vaping among teenagers in the US. But experts are divided on whether e-cigarettes should be more tightly regulated
News
Comment
Brazil鈥檚 next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon
News
Comment
Why Dorothy Hodgkin should be pictured on the UK鈥檚 new 拢50 note
News
Technology
There鈥檚 no evidence that screen time makes surgeons bad at their job
News
Features
Mind
There’s a dark side to self-control. Here’s why you should loosen up
Willpower is the secret of success 鈥� or so we've been told. But too much can be bad for the body and mind. The trick is to know when to give in to temptation
Features
Physics
Women in physics: Why there’s a problem and how we can solve it
Features
Space
Weather forecasts from alien worlds are in – and it’s wild out there
Features
Life
The day a Siberian tiger nearly killed me
Features
Culture
Health
Unsavory Truth review 鈥� exposing the food industry’s abuse of science
Exaggerated health claims, corporate funding, unpublished negative results: a new book exposes the way the US food industry hijacks science and fights for answers
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: animal-centred film, mysterious extinctions and virus art
Culture
Humans
The Sun review 鈥� a shiny blockbuster for London鈥檚 Science Museum
Culture
Life
The Wider Earth review 鈥� Darwin’s Beagle days make a gripping play
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Beware water that’s watered down, says nutritionist
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