Health
Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?
News
This week's magazine
18 May 2019
Issue 3230
On the cover
Editor's picks
Space
Selfish motives must not imperil the new space age
News
Humans
Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?
Features
Space
Elon Musk’s SpaceX or a superpower: Who’ll win the new space race?
Features
Environment
The world’s supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources?
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
NASA to get an extra $1.6 billion to put the first woman on the moon
NASA's mission to get humans, including the first woman, to the moon again in 2024 has been named Artemis, after a Greek goddess of the moon
News
Environment
Free-floating DNA to reveal the health of river and lake ecosystems
News
Environment
Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables
News
Health
My liver, your kidney: The world’s first non-identical organ swap
News
Health
NHS hospital to trial genetic analysis for blood pressure patients
News
Technology
AI recommends ‘fashionable’ outfits to millions of people in China
News
Health
Bacteria could identify month-old suspicious stains at crime scenes
News
Technology
AI doesn’t see the world like us which is why it is so easily confused
News
Space
A simple experiment could help find alien life on Europa
News
Space
The universe is 2.5 billion times less magnetic than a fridge magnet
News
Life
快猫短视频s dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life鈥檚 origins
News
Technology
Voice assistants seem to be worse at understanding commands from women
News
Technology
Directors are using virtual reality on set to find the perfect shot
News
Life
Birds introduced to Hawaii have evolved rapidly in just decades
News
Life
Some deep-sea fish have evolved souped-up colour night vision
News
Environment
Humans have interfered with most of the world’s greatest rivers
News
Life
Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic
News
Physics
Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power
News
Mind
A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states
News
Life
Penguin and seal dung nourishes organisms that are kilometres away
News
Health
Hormone treatment may help prevent miscarriages in some pregnancies
News
Technology
Uber and Lyft increased traffic delays in San Francisco by 40 percent
News
Technology
4D knitting makes rabbits that cuddle and lampshades that move
News
Space
Working hypothesis: From deepfake Dali to black toothpaste
News
Analysis
Physics
It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb
US hostility to arms control treaties has put Iran back on a path to building nuclear weapons, and inspectors could be left blind if the deal collapses
News
Environment
UK goes a week without coal but the renewables revolution is stalling
News
Health
Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?
News
Comment
We need to rediscover the wonder of space exploration to save Earth
News
Comment
Axions may or may not exist – but we’re not just making things up
News
Features
Space
Elon Musk’s SpaceX or a superpower: Who’ll win the new space race?
Nations from the US to China and companies such as Elon Musk鈥檚 SpaceX are vying to leave Earth again. But why 鈥� and are we ready for a second space age?
Features
Humans
Does population genetics have a racism problem, even today?
Features
Environment
The world’s supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources?
Features
Culture
Technology
Dreams: The PS4 game that lets you design and share your own reality
Dreams, a groundbreaking new Playstation 4 game, lets everyone build their own exciting worlds by playing at being a developer - only without all that coding
Culture
Technology
Don’t miss: Apollo 11 recalled, mapping galaxies and a space thriller
Culture
Physics
Why films like Avengers: Endgame can get away with time travel tricks
Culture
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The story behind immunotherapy鈥檚 innovative cellular voyage
When a patient鈥檚 cells are modified to attack cancer, they undergo a complex journey
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Physics
From the archives: How a cosmic illusion proved Einstein鈥檚 relativity
Regulars
Technology
Becoming a maker: How switches can bring you piping hot toast
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Physics
Physicist Kate Shaw on Higgs bosons and how reality is an illusion
Regulars
Regulars
Feedback: Are we dog-walking into a surveillance state?
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week’s new questions
Last Word
Has all the hardware sent into space affected Earth鈥檚 gravity?
Last Word
Kissed by a human or licked by an animal: which has more disease risk?
Last Word
Does your fringe grow faster than the hair on the rest of your head?
Last Word
This week’s new questions
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