Life
Experiments show us how animal minds work 鈥� but should we do them?
News
This week's magazine
12 October 2019
Issue 3251
On the cover
Editor's picks
Life
Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?
News
Physics
Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology
Features
Health
Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals
Features
Humans
Your body’s hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew
Features
Table of contents
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Environment
UN agency meant to be limiting flying emissions votes to limit action
The agency鈥檚 own scheme will not stop greenhouse gas emissions soaring, yet members have voted to block all other efforts to slow the growth
News
Health
Nobel prize for medicine goes to discovery of how cells sense oxygen
News
Space
We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov 鈥� but not until 2030
News
Technology
Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time
News
Life
The key to a long life may be genes that protect against stress
News
Space
Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars
News
Health
Anti-evolution drug may help treat resistant breast cancers
News
Life
Tea and banana plants have been genetically modified by bacteria
News
Humans
Oldest ever illustrated book is a guide to Ancient Egyptian underworld
News
Life
Home aquarium hobbyists are helping save 30 rare fish from extinction
News
Mind
Common sense can predict if a psychology study will ever be replicated
News
Health
Just three days in hospital can change the bacteria in your gut
News
Health
A mind-controlled exoskeleton helped a man with paralysis walk again
News
Environment
Giant boom traps plastic waste from the oceans for the first time
News
Space
Weird repeating signals from deep space may be created by starquakes
News
Technology
A solar-powered airship is being built to transport cargo more greenly
News
Space
We’ve had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe
News
Environment
Thousands of UK wildlife and plant species are in decline
News
Health
Experimental drug that targets liver fat may help prevent diabetes
News
Life
Implanting false memories in a bird’s brain changes its tune
News
Health
Bowel cancer screening in younger groups may do more harm than good
News
Space
Andromeda galaxy ate several dwarf galaxies in two-course lunch
News
Analysis
Life
Experiments show us how animal minds work 鈥� but should we do them?
We've now found that budgies have empathy and macaques use logic. But such experiments mean keeping animals in unnatural conditions, raising questions about their value
News
Comment
Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real
News
Environment
If we label eco-anxiety as an illness, climate denialists have won
News
Features
Health
Want to regrow organs and defy cancer? Just copy these awesome animals
Creatures with incredible superpowers including the ability to survive being frozen and suffocated and resist ageing could revolutionise medicine, space travel and even war
Features
Physics
Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmology
Features
Humans
Your body’s hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew
Features
Culture
Technology
Trevor Paglen exhibition highlights how prejudice is tainting AI
The epic expanse of photos in a new show at London鈥檚 Barbican Centre reveals a human side to artificial intelligence 鈥� and it isn鈥檛 pretty
Culture
Don’t miss: Predictive art, sci-fi comedy and the ownership of space
Culture
Technology
Netflix’s Criminal strips police drama down to its raw psychology
Culture
More
Space
How to find the Apollo landing sites and dramatic craters on the moon
The moon鈥檚 surface can tell us much about the solar system's history, and our own. Here鈥檚 how to spot its craters and more, with Abigail Beall
Regulars
Space
Maggie Aderin-Pocock on space travel and humanity’s future
Regulars
Regulars
The irresistible bowl of wasabi that broke a woman鈥檚 heart
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
Fresh fruit: does washing produce reduce the risk of food poisoning?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
End of an era: how long did it take the dinosaurs to die out?
Last Word
