Technology
The surprising future of driving: cars that spy on your every move
News
This week's magazine
7 September 2019
Issue 3246
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
The psychobiotics revolution has implications for us all
News
Technology
Guilt-free online shopping is possible if we reinvent home delivery
Features
Health
How what you eat directly influences your mental health
Features
Environment
Forget pristine habitats – for biodiversity save abandoned quarries
Features
Humans
The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?
Features
Health
Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel
Features
Table of contents
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Environment
Hurricane Dorian may have made a species of bird go extinct
In addition to killing several people and destroying thousands of buildings in the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian may have killed the last surviving Bahama nuthatches
News
Life
World’s hungriest caterpillar is wreaking destruction around the world
News
Humans
There’s no such thing as a ‘gay gene’ finds largest study of sexuality
News
Health
People who are naturally slim have smaller and more active fat cells
News
Space
We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas
News
Environment
Harbour seals are breeding in the river Thames and have had 138 pups
News
Earth
Military now controls Myanmar鈥檚 scientifically important amber mines
News
Health
CRISPR could lead to gene-editing fix for a form of male infertility
News
Technology
AIs that deblur faces could make people on CCTV easier to identify
News
Physics
Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation
News
Humans
We’ve finally found a skull from one of our most important ancestors
News
Technology
Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence
News
Environment
Round-up: the key decisions to protect wildlife from the CITES summit
News
Life
Giant virus has evolved its own kind of CRISPR to destroy invaders
News
Space
Puzzling signals seen by LIGO may be gravitational wave split in two
News
Technology
Nanotube microchips could make computers more energy efficient
News
Health
DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours’ sleep
News
Environment
Marine life is still struggling after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
News
Environment
Bananas have benefited from climate change 鈥� but they won鈥檛 in future
News
Mind
Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies
News
Mind
Weird illusion makes you think fabric is moving faster than it is
News
Analysis
Technology
The surprising future of driving: cars that spy on your every move
All cars could soon be equipped with driving-assistance technology that closely monitors our driving. It could save thousands of lives 鈥� if we use it properly
News
Environment
Global shipping needs to clean up its act now 鈥� here鈥檚 how to do it
News
Physics
Einstein鈥檚 black holes are not the black holes we see in reality
News
Features
Health
How what you eat directly influences your mental health
The microbes in our guts have a surprising influence on our brains. Now we're understanding why 鈥� and how to use them to combat anxiety, stress and depression
Features
Health
Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel
Features
Environment
Forget pristine habitats – for biodiversity save abandoned quarries
Features
Technology
Guilt-free online shopping is possible if we reinvent home delivery
Features
Humans
The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?
Features
Culture
Mind
The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics
If you're struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get 鈥� even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book
Culture
Technology
How beautiful scientific instruments transformed Britain
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: troubled robots, winning designs and high seas
Culture
Space
Sci-fi film Aniara’s best trick is to make the future feel like now
Culture
More
Space
How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation
Many disasters befell the space station Mir, not least the collapse of the state that built it 鈥� but it showed how nations could come and work together in orbit
Regulars
Technology
How to make a remote-controlled pest-proof bird feeder
Regulars
Mind
What makes us addicts? Judith Grisel is determined to find out
Regulars
Regulars
A road made of solar panels seemed like a good idea. Now it’s broken
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
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Last Word
What is the carbon payback period for a wind turbine?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
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