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Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped?
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This week's magazine
20 April 2019
Issue 3226
On the cover
Editor's picks
Space
Black hole breakthrough: a lot done, much more to do
News
Physics
What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?
Features
Health
Protein mania: The problem with the West鈥檚 latest diet obsession
Features
Earth
Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve
We finally have the first real image of a black hole, so researchers can begin studying these cosmic mysteries in detail. Here is what they are hoping to learn
News
Space
LIGO has spotted another gravitational wave just after turning back on
News
Environment
The 2018 heatwave may not have been possible without climate change
News
Mind
A touchy-feely part of the brain helps you enjoy a gentle caress
News
Space
SpaceX鈥檚 Falcon Heavy rocket has flown its first commercial flight
News
Space
Israel’s Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon
News
Health
Men who have children later in life may prime their kids for longevity
News
Space
NASA traced a meteorite back to its original home in deep space
News
Humans
Did the ancestor of all humans evolve in Europe not Africa?
News
Health
First 3-parent baby born in clinical trial to treat infertility
News
Life
Pollinators may have evolved 40 million years before flowers existed
News
Mathematics
We could solve the biggest problem in maths in the next decade
News
Technology
How hackers use tricks to make money from your clicks
News
Environment
Even remote mountain glaciers are contaminated with microplastics
News
Environment
Pristine mountains are being littered with microplastics from the air
News
Space
What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?
News
Humans
A gene linked to alcohol habits may influence who you choose to marry
News
Health
Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body
News
Space
Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it’s so dry
News
Space
You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system
News
Technology
Flying cars could be greener than electric ones in some circumstances
News
Physics
Hot rubble from volcanoes races over land on a carpet of air bubbles
News
Comment
快猫短视频s must worry in public about the dangers of their creations
News
Analysis
Health
Measles has made a shocking return to the US. Can it be stopped?
Insight is your guide to the science and technology that is transforming our world, giving you everything you need to know about the issues that matter most
News
Health
Prescriptions for UTIs may be making antibiotic resistance even worse
News
Environment
David Attenborough finally talks climate change in prime time BBC slot
News
Features
Physics
What would happen if you got sucked into a black hole?
From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole鈥檚 event horizon 鈥� so choose your own unsettling fate
Features
Earth
Surprising ways the changing Earth shaped human evolution and society
Features
Health
Protein mania: The problem with the West鈥檚 latest diet obsession
Features
Culture
Technology
Why Ian McEwan doesn鈥檛 see his latest novel as being science fiction
What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me
Culture
Mind
Don’t miss: Kubrick’s genius, Haida mythology and the power of emotion
Culture
Physics
Must we topple Einstein to let physics leap forward again?
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Why replicate an experiment when you can flip a coin?
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