Technology
The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe
News
This week's magazine
17 November 2018
Issue 3204
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
New techniques may soon make designer babies a reality 鈥� are we ready?
News
Physics
Einstein was wrong: Why ‘normal’ physics can’t explain reality
Features
Technology
How to 3D-print a living, beating heart
Features
Mind
We’ve got thinking all wrong. This is how your mind really works
Features
Humans
The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Exclusive: A new test can predict IVF embryos’ risk of having a low IQ
A new genetic test that enables people having IVF to screen out embryos likely to have a low IQ or high disease risk could soon become available in the US
News
Technology
Smartphones with folding screens set for the mainstream
News
Humans
Mixed results for science in the US midterm elections
News
Environment
Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s
News
Space
Mystery 鈥渟pace cow鈥� is a weird new type of powerful space explosion
News
Life
Earliest known animal might have inflated its body like a balloon
News
Humans
Modern lifestyles shaped our evolution only a few thousand years ago
News
Life
An extinct monkey evolved to live like a sloth in the Caribbean
News
Technology
China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes
News
Humans
Ancient tribes of Scotland learned to write after contact with Romans
News
Space
Pluto鈥檚 weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth
News
Health
We鈥檝e discovered a whole new defence system against germs in our noses
News
Space
NASA is giving advice to Yuri Milner’s private mission to Enceladus
News
Environment
Destroying a type of cloud may help stabilise climate change
News
Space
Why lichen may be the perfect factories for making rocket fuel on Mars
News
Life
Sabre-toothed cats shared their food with injured pride members
News
Technology
Robots are learning hand gestures by watching hours of TED talks
News
Humans
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and Australia share some ancestry
News
Humans
World’s first figurative art is of an unknown animal in Borneo
News
Health
Gene therapy injection into spinal cord halts ALS in adult mice
News
Space
Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered
News
Health
The cause of half of all developmental disorders is a genetic mystery
News
Health
Blood test can spot DNA from eight different types of cancer
News
Health
Hormone helps regrow frog legs and may one day lead to a human therapy
News
Analysis
Technology
The race to green domestic heating and prevent climate catastrophe
Household heating systems are huge sources of carbon emissions, but many countries are showing how existing technologies can fix the problem
News
Comment
An AI apocalypse isn’t the problem 鈥� technology-driven inequality is
News
Comment
Iran’s imprisoned conservationists need scientists to speak up
News
Comment
Double the risk of death! The problem with headline health statistics
News
Features
Physics
Einstein was wrong: Why ‘normal’ physics can’t explain reality
The most ambitious experiments yet show that the quantum weirdness Einstein famously hated rules the roost 鈥� not just here, but across the entire universe
Features
Humans
The Galapagos of the Indian Ocean: Voyage to a forgotten paradise
Features
Mind
We’ve got thinking all wrong. This is how your mind really works
Features
Technology
How to 3D-print a living, beating heart
Features
Culture
Earth
Timefulness review 鈥� our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology
If you want to save Earth, argues a new book, quit sitting around in the present hoping for the best and learn to think really long term, like a geologist
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: social media violence, lowdown on AI, scary black holes
Culture
Earth
Anthropocene review 鈥� tough film makes case for human-created epoch
Culture
Technology
Nonfacial Portrait review: art fights to save faces and paint over AI
Culture
