Health
Choline: The forgotten vital nutrient we鈥檙e not getting enough of
News
This week's magazine
26 October 2019
Issue 3253
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
The internet has reached its half century, but how will it change now?
News
Health
Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours
Features
Humans
Internet founder Vint Cerf looks to the next 50 years of his creation
Features
Technology
The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map
Features
Technology
Tech giants, states or trolls: Who will control tomorrow’s internet?
Features
Technology
The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Abortion is now no longer illegal in Northern Ireland
Women and girls in Northern Ireland can now legally access abortions, seek medical aftercare and can get funding to travel to England for the procedure
News
Environment
Changing a child’s route to school can halve exposure to air pollution
News
Technology
Deepfakes are being used to dub adverts into different languages
News
Technology
AI could help work out how many people are in large crowds
News
Environment
Going fully organic would raise greenhouse gas emissions
News
Life
World’s loudest male bird bellows at females sitting right next to it
News
Health
CRISPR upgrade could make genome editing better and safer
News
Life
Tourists risk giving gorillas deadly diseases when they take selfies
News
Environment
Stressed about climate change? Eight tips for managing eco-anxiety
News
Life
Giant toad looks and acts like a venomous snake to scare off predators
News
Health
Man鈥檚 body brews its own beer after yeast take over his gut microbiome
News
Technology
DeepMind AI beats humans at deciphering damaged ancient Greek tablets
News
Humans
Archaeologists are racing to find a lost city before it’s ransacked
News
Health
Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient data
News
Space
SpaceX plans to put more than 40,000 satellites in space
News
Health
Early mouse fetuses generated without sperm or eggs for first time
News
Health
A second mutation that makes people need less sleep has been found
News
Space
Strange sand dunes on Titan could be made by cosmic rays hitting ice
News
Life
Nightjars time their epic migration flights using a lunar calendar
News
Health
Mother鈥檚 attention may shape baby鈥檚 hormone system and temperament
News
Humans
Humans evolved to think faster by slowing down brain development
News
Environment
Extreme snow stopped plants and animals breeding in parts of Greenland
News
Analysis
Environment
How deadly disease outbreaks could worsen as the climate changes
Environmental destruction risks increasing the spread of deadly diseases including Ebola and malaria, with serious consequences for future public health
News
Health
Choline: The forgotten vital nutrient we鈥檙e not getting enough of
News
Space
The solar system has too many moons 鈥� it’s time for a cull
News
Environment
Brexit ideas of UK food self-sufficiency are just pipe dreams
News
Features
Technology
The internet was supposed to be a utopia. 50 years on, what happened?
Half a century ago a tiny military-funded experiment changed the world in ways we are only just coming to terms with - for good and bad
Features
Technology
Tech giants, states or trolls: Who will control tomorrow’s internet?
Features
Technology
The greatest network the world has ever seen: The global internet map
Features
Humans
Internet founder Vint Cerf looks to the next 50 years of his creation
Features
Health
Beating cancer: How viruses are being used to infect and kill tumours
Features
Culture
Space
Moving to Mars 鈥� this show will help you become a real Martian
From memorious clothing to wasteless habitats, the reality of living on Mars is brought home at London's Design Museum with genuine optimism
Culture
Life
Don鈥檛 miss: Sleepless nights, ephemeral worlds and telepathic terrors
Culture
Space
A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future
Culture
More
Space
Spot six planets in the sky this week: Mercury, Mars, Uranus and more
Late October is a great time to spot planets, says Abigail Beall, and with a few tips you can find almost all those in the solar system
Regulars
Physics
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng on the abstract wonder of category theory
Regulars
Regulars
Will I still be able to play Candy Crush after the apocalypse?
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Could you change Earth鈥檚 rotation by all running at the same time?
Last Word
Swimming strokes: which is the fastest?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
