Health
The war against antibiotic resistance is finally turning in our favour
News
This week's magazine
19 January 2019
Issue 3213
On the cover
Editor's picks
快猫短视频 launches internship scheme for aspiring BAME journalists
News
Health
Why doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
Features
Environment
Earth in 2050: This is what a world warmed by 1.5掳C looks like
Features
Humans
Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people
Features
Physics
‘We’ll die before we find the answer’: Crisis at the heart of physics
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Comment
Rational thinking is saving antibiotics 鈥� it could work on Brexit too
The turning of the tide in the fight against bacterial resistance to antibiotics shows the benefits of clear thinking and leadership, and it could work for Brexit too
News
快猫短视频 launches internship scheme for aspiring BAME journalists
News
快猫短视频
Environment
Growth of desalination plants is a serious problem for marine life
The super salty waste water dumped into the oceans by the world鈥檚 16,000 desalination plants can push marine species beyond what they can tolerate
News
Health
Call for more transparency over 鈥榓dd-on鈥� fertility treatments
News
Space
First moon plants sprout in China’s Chang’e 4 biosphere experiment
News
Health
No-deal Brexit could lead to drug shortages and delayed operations
News
Health
Astronauts travelling to the moon and Mars risk dying from superbugs
News
Technology
Hackers are stealing computer power to make millions in cryptocurrency
News
Life
Cuttlefish embryos can see and recognise predators before they hatch
News
Health
A child’s mix of gut bacteria may determine if they get allergies
News
Space
Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery
News
Environment
Dolphins unintentionally poisoning offspring with banned chemicals
News
Technology
Drones are causing airport chaos – why can’t we stop them?
News
Mind
Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China
News
Health
A ghostly trick produces X-ray images with a lower dose of radiation
News
Space
A black hole the size of Jupiter is just wandering around the galaxy
News
Environment
Bacteria live in China鈥檚 thick smogs and may be making it even worse
News
Health
Ovarian cancer AI can tell how aggressive a woman鈥檚 tumour is
News
Technology
AI created images of food just by reading the recipes
News
Life
Bumblebees lose sleep looking after the young by napping half as much
News
Environment
Millions of years ago a massive whale-eating whale roamed the seas
News
Crows can guess the weight of an object by watching it sway in wind
News
Mind
Taking ginger pills can make disgusting ideas more palatable
News
Humans
Medieval dental plaque suggests women played important role as scribes
News
Space
Astronomers have seen dying stars slowly crystallise and turn solid
News
Analysis
Health
The war against antibiotic resistance is finally turning in our favour
We are finally seeing progress in the battle against antibiotic resistance, but now we must make it profitable to develop new drugs
News
Comment
Type 2 diabetes may not be a lifelong condition
News
Comment
We all love Marie Kondo. So why is tidying up so hard?
News
Technology
Did older Facebook users sharing fake news really help elect Trump?
News
Features
Humans
Long lost cities in the Amazon were once home to millions of people
We used to think the Amazon rainforest was virtually untouched, but it now seems to have been filled with sprawling settlements whose inhabitants shaped the land
Features
Health
Why doing more exercise won’t help you burn more calories
Features
Environment
Earth in 2050: This is what a world warmed by 1.5掳C looks like
Features
Physics
‘We’ll die before we find the answer’: Crisis at the heart of physics
Features
Culture
Humans
The Dream review 鈥� a podcast tale of how firms manipulate our brains
A shocking podcast tells the story of how poor people are being exploited by new kinds of companies that have turned the insights of cognitive science on them
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: Star-studded art, weird tides and smart cities
Culture
Physics
Broken Symmetries review: the art of seeing science afresh
Culture
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Health
From the archives: this is your brain on ecstasy, 30 years ago
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