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Giving nature human rights could be the best way to protect the planet
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This week's magazine
28 September 2019
Issue 3249
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
The story of how humans got to the Americas isn鈥檛 a simple one
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Humans
Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral
Features
Health
Screen time: How smartphones really affect our bodies and brains
Features
Humans
The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World
Features
Space
Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate
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Table of contents
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Physics
Google claims it has finally reached quantum supremacy
Has Google achieved quantum supremacy? The firm says its quantum chip can perform a calculation that is practically impossible for our best supercomputer
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Environment
Greta Thunberg: You have stolen my childhood with your empty words
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Health
AI is learning to diagnose schizophrenia from a smartphone video
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Space
Weird galaxies suggest our best understanding of the cosmos is wrong
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Technology
Robots, uranium dioxide, fly food: What UK scientists are stockpiling
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Life
Frogs evolved to be more scared after mongooses came to their island
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Humans
Prehistoric baby bottles found in Bronze and Iron Age sites in Germany
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Health
UK families in buyers club fly to Argentina for cystic fibrosis drugs
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Technology
Autonomous killer drones set to be used by Turkey in Syria
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Mind
Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain
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Space
Saturn’s moon Enceladus is having a snowball fight with other moons
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Space
Some planets may orbit a supermassive black hole instead of a star
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Health
A hat that zaps the scalp with electricity helps reverse male balding
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Humans
This is almost certainly not what Denisovans looked like
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Life
Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did
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Environment
Climate change will boost risk of extreme flooding in northern Europe
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Mathematics
Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3
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Health
Radio waves from electric devices may affect the body clock of insects
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Health
Herpes vaccine to be tested in humans after best result yet in animals
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Environment
The US and Canada have lost three billion birds since 1970
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Technology
Fast swimming fish robot could perform underwater surveillance
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快猫短视频 Live 2019 highlights: Aliens, jet packs and Homo naledi
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Analysis
Environment
Beef-eating consumers are helping drive Amazon deforestation
An investigation of trade flows finds much of the recent Amazon deforestation is down to cattle ranching - and consumers around the world are eating the meat
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Earth
Giving nature human rights could be the best way to protect the planet
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Comment
Should people with mental health conditions be drugged to stand trial?
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Comment
Ancient grains are misnamed and their health benefits are unconfirmed
News
Features
Humans
The first Americans: The untold story of the pioneers of the New World
The Americas were the last continents conquered by humanity. Now we know that those who settled there were a hardy group that first had to survive in the Arctic
Features
Health
Screen time: How smartphones really affect our bodies and brains
Features
Space
Helen Sharman: First British astronaut speaks out on science, climate
Features
Humans
Deliver us from evil: How biology, not religion, made humans moral
Features
Culture
Humans
Bill Bryson’s new book celebrates the miraculous human body
Forget disease and frailty. Bill Bryson鈥檚 new book, The Body: A guide for occupants, is a hymn to the way the things inside us just work without us telling them to
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: Computer collage, global gold and orbital capital
Culture
Humans
The Institute by Stephen King leads a revolutionary sci-fi reboot
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Regulars
Revealed: What Margaret Thatcher really thinks about Brexit
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