Environment
Planning to carbon offset your flight? You should read this first
News
This week's magazine
20 July 2019
Issue 3239
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Carbon offsetting can benefit the climate, but only if done properly
News
Humans
Sibling rivalry: How birth order affects your personality and health
Features
Physics
Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate
Features
Environment
The super fly that could feed us, end waste and make plastic and fuel
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Ebola case confirmed in major city in Democratic Republic of Congo
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in Goma, the first in a major city since the outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo last year
News
Mind
Sexual images are just as arousing for women as they are for men
News
Space
India鈥檚 moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch
News
Environment
Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants
News
Health
Anorexia is a metabolic disorder as well as a psychiatric one
News
Space
Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos
News
Environment
The plan to build mega wind farms and artificial islands in North Sea
News
Space
There aren鈥檛 enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts
News
Health
Plans to provide genetic testing on the NHS could harm well-being
News
Space
Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive
News
Environment
UK government urgently readies environment watchdog for no-deal Brexit
News
Life
Unknown species of lizard found inside a gliding dinosaur’s stomach
News
Environment
Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium
News
Health
Healthy living lowers chances of dementia even if genetic risk is high
News
Technology
AI beats professionals at six-player Texas Hold 鈥橢m poker
News
Life
Purple fairy wrasse named Wakanda discovered on reef in twilight zone
News
Physics
Molecules pictured changing shape as they gain and lose electrons
News
Life
Goats reveal their feelings with the sound of distinctive bleats
News
Environment
Butterfly numbers fell by one-third in the US over past two decades
News
Humans
Babies point at objects because they really want to touch them
News
Life
Bluehead wrasse fish switch from female to male in just 20 days
News
Health
Do you run with bent arms? Turns out it doesn’t make much difference
News
Analysis
Health
Why most new medicines are no better than existing treatments
An analysis of new drugs shows that most novel medicines have little advantage over current treatments and waste money that healthcare systems can't afford
News
Environment
Planning to carbon offset your flight? You should read this first
News
Health
Using smart watches to monitor your heart could do more harm than good
News
Environment
All hail London鈥檚 urban jungle as it becomes first national park city
News
Features
Physics
Welcome to the 5th dimension: Our universe’s radical new fate
Our best models of cosmology suggest the universe will either go on forever, implode or rip itself apart. A new proposal suggests an even weirder destiny
Features
Environment
The super fly that could feed us, end waste and make plastic and fuel
Features
Humans
Sibling rivalry: How birth order affects your personality and health
Features
Culture
Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays
Why are squid eyes so big? What is Caesar's novel? Can Alexander von Humboldt go graphic? How do you talk to alien plants? Recharge with 快猫短视频鈥檚 picks
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: Electric rivals, immortality and a time travelling bard
Culture
Apollo 11 looks like yesterday in new TV show using restored footage
Culture
More
Technology
Electronics projects for beginners: Get your plants talking to you
Well-loved plants are happy plants. Here鈥檚 how to wire yours up to a BBC micro:bit so they can tell you when they are too hot, dry or cold
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Health
Why I鈥檓 growing bits of human intestine in a dish in the lab
Regulars
Regulars
Feedback: The very British ethnography of queuing
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
Antibiotics
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
How far do we travel through the universe in our lifetimes?
Last Word
Why does menthol give me a cold sensation in my nose?
Last Word
This week’s questions
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