Health
AIs that diagnose diseases are starting to assist and replace doctors
News
This week's magazine
29 June 2019
Issue 3236
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Findings that many unconscious people may be aware is a wake-up call
News
Health
Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious
Features
Life
The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth’s mass extinctions
Features
Earth
The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble
Features
Table of contents
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Technology
Second world war bomb explodes after three-quarters of a century
This huge crater in a field in Germany was created when a bomb dropped around 75 years ago finally exploded
News
Space
Unique chance to confirm methane spikes 鈥� and perhaps life 鈥� on Mars
News
Environment
Weather forecasts could soon pin extreme events on climate change
News
Health
Non-addictive CRISPR-edited tobacco could help eliminate smoking
News
Technology
AI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour
News
Health
Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain
News
Physics
Mars meteorite assault stopped 500 million years earlier than thought
News
Technology
The US is making digital camouflage so that AIs can鈥檛 spot spy planes
News
Health
Freezing embryos doesn’t boost IVF success rate despite common use
News
Life
Death of mother prompts adolescent chimps to look after their siblings
News
Space
NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don’t want to
News
Technology
Libra: What is Facebook’s new cryptocurrency and can we trust it?
News
Life
US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war
News
Life
Hundreds of orcas hold an annual meeting and now we may know why
News
Technology
I travelled to a future where AI cameras track your every move
News
Space
ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet
News
Life
Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father
News
Environment
Spy satellite images reveal Himalaya glacier ice losses have doubled
News
Humans
Ancient Celts were partial to beer, mead and imported Greek wines
News
Technology
Robotic fish powered by electronic blood can swim for 36 hours
News
Life
Seals consciously reduce blood flow to their blubber before diving
News
Health
A severe autoimmune condition may be triggered by ‘good’ gut bacteria
News
Space
Working hypothesis: from Raspberry Pi to abolishing time
News
Analysis
Health
Can your gut bacteria really make you a better runner?
A new study opens the door to probiotics that boost physical performance, but whether they will work in humans is far from proven
News
Health
AIs that diagnose diseases are starting to assist and replace doctors
News
Environment
We鈥檙e living through a climate emergency. Time to start acting like it
News
Humans
Will robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits
News
Features
Earth
The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble
The magnetic north pole is racing towards Siberia - but why? It's a mystery with huge implications, and to solve it, we're building an explosive model of the planet's core
Features
Health
Shocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious
Features
Life
The secrets of how sharks survived so many of Earth’s mass extinctions
Features
Culture
Life
How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science
Dinosaurs have won a huge following as new techniques revolutionise what we know about how they lived and even looked. How well are popular books keeping up?
Culture
Don’t miss: ethereal artworks, haunted teens and a gift of tongues
Culture
Environment
The Extinction Rebellion book is short on science but big on action
Culture
Technology
How Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 probe our dystopian fears
Culture
More
Life
The sad tale of the US Navy’s surplus military dolphins
From the archive: In 1994, the US Navy marine mammal service was downsizing its operation. Here's the sorry tale of what happened to the surplus military dolphins
Regulars
Technology
Electronics projects for beginners: How to make a roaming robot
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Technology
Claire Burke on using thermal drone tech to protect orangutans
Regulars
Regulars
Feedback: Lack of territory is no barrier to space nation pioneers
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
What causes the fresh smell before a storm?
Last Word
Clean limbs: should you wash your legs?
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