Health
Are heat-not-burn tobacco products a safer alternative to cigarettes?
News
This week's magazine
11 May 2019
Issue 3229
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Climate change is an emergency we can solve
News
Space
Fast radio bursts: We’re finally decoding messages from deep space
Features
Technology
True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Features
Earth
Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Technology
Lightning strike may have led to Aeroflot plane crash in Moscow
A lightning strike just minutes after take-off appears to have prompted an emergency landing that resulted in a plane bouncing on the runway and catching fire
News
Environment
A small YouTube design change could drastically cut its CO2 emissions
News
Environment
Loss of the UK鈥檚 ash trees due to fungal disease may cost 拢15 billion
News
Health
Astronauts may have vision problems because of liquid in their brains
News
Health
Genetic variants may put some athletes at higher risk of sudden death
News
Life
Underwater tests reveal sharks may be smarter than you think
News
Space
We鈥檝e spotted a strange asteroid that鈥檚 spinning itself to pieces
News
Environment
Destruction of nature is as big a threat to humanity as climate change
News
Environment
UK government told to adopt world’s most ambitious climate target
News
Physics
Ancient Greek method for finding prime numbers just got an upgrade
News
Space
LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star
News
Life
Huge mega-rafts carried dinosaur-era animals on round-the-world trips
News
Health
Hormone therapy may improve some symptoms of autism
News
Life
Prehistoric predator fossils found in an underwater cave in Mexico
News
Space
Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can’t agree on controversial find
News
Technology
Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans
News
Life
Monkeys seem to prefer each other’s company after a scary experience
News
Technology
Exclusive: AI to monitor UK roads for accidents or unusual behaviour
News
Health
Two molecules could give us finer control over CRISPR gene editing
News
Space
Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth’s water
News
Environment
Hippos poop a huge amount of silicon every day 鈥� and it鈥檚 a good thing
News
Life
Pandas gobble as much protein as polar bears despite being vegetarian
News
Life
Older bees pass on immunity-boosting molecules to other bees in jelly
News
Technology
US Navy tests underwater robots that recharge by eating fish faeces
News
Health
Eczema-associated bacteria may be kept in check by a different microbe
News
Life
Narwhals are thriving despite extremely low genetic diversity
News
Health
Newly recognised form of dementia could now be easier to diagnose
News
Health
Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money
News
Analysis
Health
Did Netflix鈥檚 13 Reasons Why really increase suicide rates?
A study shows that a rise in suicide among children age 10 to 17 occurred after Netflix鈥檚 13 Reasons Why was released, but the show may not be to blame
News
Health
Are heat-not-burn tobacco products a safer alternative to cigarettes?
News
Technology
Why the UK鈥檚 grand plan to stop gadgets turning against us is flawed
News
Comment
The idea that there are only 100 harvests left is just a fantasy
News
Features
Space
Fast radio bursts: We’re finally decoding messages from deep space
Strange signals from space called fast radio bursts have confused astronomers for years. A new wave of observations looks set to solve the mystery
Features
Technology
True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Features
Earth
Zombieland: The vast world of hidden microbes miles beneath your feet
Features
Culture
Earth
Underland is a profound journey into the mirror world of the dead
An emotional and intellectual voyage into an underground mythical world imagined by the Sami people reveals truths about our collective future
Culture
Technology
Don’t miss: untamed tech, a changing China and food for thought
Culture
Humans
Writing: Making Your Mark reveals the power of the written word
Culture
Mind
How sci-fi like Frankissstein helps us face our fears of the future
Culture
More
Technology
How to make a reading light and learn about circuits
Fundamental to all maker projects is the circuit, and Hannah Joshua shows how it's done by designing a reading light
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Space
Why ‘Martian’ Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet
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