Space
Cookies and slime in orbit: What’s the point of PR stunts in space?
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This week's magazine
24 August 2019
Issue 3244
On the cover
Editor's picks
How to defeat the disease that killed half the people who ever lived
News
Physics
Quantum weirdness isn’t real 鈥� we’ve just got space and time all wrong
Features
Health
Why are people still dying of malaria when we have a treatment?
Features
Technology
Inside China’s attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields
Features
Mind
Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think
Features
Table of contents
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Health
The UK has lost its World Health Organization 鈥榤easles-free鈥� status
Three years after the measles virus was eliminated, the UK has lost its 鈥渕easles-free鈥� status, prompting the government to announce urgent action
News
Technology
Cities are using walls of moss to tackle air pollution from traffic
News
Health
15 studies retracted due to fears they used Chinese prisoners’ organs
News
Physics
A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes
News
Space
We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow
News
Space
We have spotted 8 more mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
News
Health
An inside look at the NHS’s plans to revolutionise healthcare with AI
News
Environment
Climate change will drive longer extreme heatwaves in summer
News
Health
Genetic studies hint alcohol isn鈥檛 linked to breast cancer after all
News
Environment
Tiny magnets could help rid the ocean of harmful microplastics
News
Mind
Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out
News
Environment
Wildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade
News
Health
Ketogenic diet may stop migraines by changing the brain鈥檚 fuel
News
Earth
Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds
News
Technology
The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets
News
Physics
Military-grade jet fuel made cheaply from plant waste instead of coal
News
Earth
Super-deep diamonds contain traces of a pristine chunk of early Earth
News
Technology
Robotic shorts could help you run and walk more efficiently
News
Environment
Plant growth has declined drastically around the world due to dry air
News
Health
Sticky nets of DNA from immune cells may be to blame for gallstones
News
Humans
Neanderthals spent a surprising amount of time underwater
News
Space
A massive collision may have made Jupiter’s core so weird
News
Analysis
Space
Cookies and slime in orbit: What’s the point of PR stunts in space?
Companies that run hotels, build cars and make TV are beginning to operate in space. This in-orbit economy could finance deeper space exploration
News
Humans
Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science
News
Technology
YouTube has become such a garbage fire it is time to dump it for good
News
Features
Physics
Quantum weirdness isn’t real 鈥� we’ve just got space and time all wrong
A radical new idea erases quantum theory's weird uncertainties 鈥� by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin
Features
Mind
Mind meld: Artificial intelligence is improving the way humans think
Features
Technology
Inside China’s attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields
Features
Health
Why are people still dying of malaria when we have a treatment?
Features
Culture
Health
The Vagina Bible: Beating bad science on women’s sexual health
Top Twitter gynaecologist Jennifer Gunter's new book, The Vagina Bible, attacks the bad science and downright ignorance she believes bedevil women's sexual health
Culture
Life
Don’t Miss: Design for survival, lab fraud, and summer magic
Culture
Comment
From Prey to Observation: Why games set on space stations are a thrill
Culture
More
Technology
How the US almost introduced a universal basic income 鈥� 50 years ago
With automation threatening jobs, US president Richard Nixon proposed a universal minimum income - an idea that only recently has come back in vogue
Regulars
Technology
Make a rain alarm with copper tape and a BBC micro:bit
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Health
Can we halt multiple sclerosis? Catherine Lubetzki is finding out how
Regulars
Regulars
On the hot seat: The mysterious case of the exploding Floridian toilet
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Far-sighted: How can some people see at great distance?
Last Word
This week’s new questions
Last Word
Sneeze blindness: Why do your eyes close when you sneeze?
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