Space
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
News
This week's magazine
23 February 2019
Issue 3218
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
We don’t know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation
News
Environment
18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change
Features
Physics
The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe
Features
Mind
How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Environment
Hey Prime Minister, leave them climate protest kids alone
Leaders who criticise children protesting inaction over climate change risk alienating a generation 鈥� and suffering the consequences at the ballot box
News
Technology
We don’t know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation
News
快猫短视频
Health
Gene therapy for common cause of sight loss tested for first time
A woman has become the first person to receive gene therapy for age-related macular degeneration, one of the most common causes of sight loss
News
Environment
Meat in a dish could be bad for the planet
News
Environment
UK is failing to meet almost all of its climate action targets
News
Environment
Nazi sub is being destroyed by bacteria due to Deepwater Horizon spill
News
Life
Your phone and shoes are home to completely unknown life forms
News
Technology
Smart and fluffy storytelling robot to be trialled in US classrooms
News
Humans
Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people
News
Life
This optical illusion breaks your brain for 15 milliseconds
News
Health
PTSD may one day be treated with a common blood pressure drug
News
Technology
AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable
News
Space
Opportunity Mars rover is officially dead after 15-year mission
News
Health
CRISPR could help us protect ourselves from viruses like flu and HIV
News
Life
Slime-fighting slug can superglue enemy frogs to trees for days
News
Space
Interstellar 鈥極umuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe
News
Humans
Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side
News
Space
Neptune鈥檚 smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again
News
Health
A gut bacteria toxin that damages DNA may be involved in bowel cancer
News
Humans
Offspring from older sperm are fitter and age more slowly
News
Life
Cassowaries鈥� strange headgear helps them stay cool in the heat
News
Technology
Robot mimics desert ants to find its way home without GPS
News
Health
Breast pumps may introduce harmful bacteria to babies鈥� gut microbiome
News
Technology
Smart skin sticker could detect asthma attacks before they happen
News
Humans
Chimp sign language and human communication follow the same rules
News
Analysis
Technology
Fears of OpenAI鈥檚 super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown
Elon Musk-backed firm OpenAI has built a text-generating AI that it says is too dangerous to release because of potential misuse
News
Space
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
News
Comment
Russia鈥檚 plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating
News
Comment
Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species
News
Health
Can teenagers get vaccinated without their parents鈥� permission?
News
Features
Mind
How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid
Even the most intelligent people can make ridiculous mistakes 鈥� but there are simple things all of us can do to act more wisely and avoid blinkered thinking
Features
Physics
The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe
Features
Environment
18 up-and-running projects that could save us from climate change
Features
Culture
Technology
YouTube science videos: The channels you should subscribe to
Meet the science YouTubers Simon Clark, In茅s Dawson, Simone Giertz and more who make videos spanning rubbish robots, Star Wars planets and hijacking a Bieber hit
Culture
Technology
Don’t miss: Corporate sabotage, Alien restored and our bionic future
Culture
Space
The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era
Culture
