Technology
All-seeing eyes: The epic plan to track almost everything on Earth
News
This week's magazine
2 November 2019
Issue 3254
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
Quantum supremacy has arrived 鈥� what happens to computing now?
News
Environment
Earth’s most important rivers are in the sky 鈥� and they’re drying up
Features
Physics
Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity
Features
Life
Parasites are going extinct in droves 鈥� and we should be very worried
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet
The best ever image of the asteroid Hygiea has revealed its shape for the first time and it looks as if it is round enough to be a tiny dwarf planet like Pluto
News
Environment
California fires see 200,000 evacuated while 3 million may lose power
News
Physics
Timeline: A brief history of quantum computing from 1980 to 2100
News
Physics
It鈥檚 official: Google has achieved quantum supremacy
News
Physics
Google hits back at IBM’s quantum supremacy challenge
News
Physics
IBM says Google may not have reached quantum supremacy after all
News
Physics
Quantum supremacy: What can we do with a quantum computer?
News
Physics
Google’s qubit rivals: The race to useful quantum computers has begun
News
Environment
Up to 630 million people could be threatened by rising seas
News
Humans
Have we found the African origin of all humanity? It’s complicated
News
Health
Genetic privacy attack could reveal DNA secrets from genealogy sites
News
Life
快猫短视频s have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food
News
Health
Blood proteins reveal your age 鈥� and could lead to anti-ageing therapy
News
Space
Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush
News
Life
Extraordinary fossils show how mammals rose from the dinosaurs鈥� ashes
News
Earth
Collapse of Antarctic ice may have been centuries in the making
News
Health
Mice fed a high salt diet lose the ability to perform simple tasks
News
Space
Distant galaxies moving in sync hint at cosmic web across the universe
News
Environment
Climate change may see one in four US steel bridges collapse by 2040
News
Mind
Gut microbes help mice overcome their fears by changing brain activity
News
Health
Benzodiazepines and z-drugs are prescribed more in poorer areas
News
Analysis
Technology
All-seeing eyes: The epic plan to track almost everything on Earth
Firms are racing to create a real-time database of every object on Earth larger than a car. It would help investors and conservationists, but could it be abused?
News
Technology
Will Google bail if its quantum computer doesn鈥檛 turn a quick profit?
News
Space
The 鈥榥uclear pasta鈥� in neutron stars could transform particle physics
News
Features
Physics
Einstein killed the aether. Now the idea is back to save relativity
The luminiferous aether has become a byword for failed ideas. Now it is being revived to explain dark matter and dark energy, and potentially unify physics
Features
Life
Parasites are going extinct in droves 鈥� and we should be very worried
Features
Environment
Earth’s most important rivers are in the sky 鈥� and they’re drying up
Features
Culture
Mind
How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers
The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch charts a radical theory about consciousness that shows the survival advantages for humans, and why computers can never be conscious
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: Risky flights, idiotic experiments and the secrets of life
Culture
Technology
Will Smith’s action thriller Gemini Man falls into major logic holes
Culture
More
Space
The space-junk calamity that could cut us off from the cosmos
30 years ago, astrophysicists worried that a chain reaction of collisions between bits of space debris would create a cloud of deadly shrapnel through which no spacecraft could pass
Regulars
Space
How to spot Taurus, star clusters and a meteor shower in the night sky
Regulars
Space
Apollo collection curator on what Neil Armstrong took to the moon
Regulars
Regulars
The shirt that fights “calorific rays” and other improbable inventions
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Could Jupiter ever ignite into a star?
Last Word
Why does my brain like fictional stories?
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