Environment
Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions
News
This week's magazine
4 January 2020
Issue 3263
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Our Veganuary study is just the latest self-experiment
News
Life
For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection
Features
Health
Going vegan for January? Find out how much difference it really makes
Features
Physics
Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel – if we can make it
Features
Health
Why dogs could hold the secret to longer, healthier human lives
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
Boeing鈥檚 Starliner spacecraft fails to reach ISS due to a broken clock
Boeing鈥檚 Starliner spacecraft launched on 20 December, but problems with one of its clocks meant that it won't be able to complete its mission to the ISS
News
Environment
Ozone hole recovery will probably be delayed by banned gas from China
News
Health
Some types of endometriosis may be present from birth
News
Health
Magnetic levitation device could help police identify illegal drugs
News
Technology
Encryption scheme lets police access your phone, but there’s a catch
News
Health
Drug that restricts overactive immune systems could help treat lupus
News
Life
Four great waves of animals have spread out from the tropics
News
Health
Light therapy device helps improve some symptoms of dementia
News
Environment
Oil spills could be cleaned up by giving local microbes extra genes
News
Health
Cell injection could train the body not to reject organ transplants
News
Technology
Everyone is jumping on the quantum computing bandwagon, but why?
News
Earth
Fossil trees reveal world’s oldest forest grew on New York mountains
News
Health
Misunderstanding the vulva may be leading to pain after labiaplasties
News
Life
Weird jaguar catfish is covered in spines and lives in wooden logs
News
Physics
Tiny graphene sheets can start or stop ice crystals growing in water
News
Technology
A massive optical computer being built could outpace quantum computers
News
Health
Wearing shoes from a young age makes your ankles less flexible
News
Environment
Potatoes engineered to harm a major pest but leave other insects safe
News
Analysis
Environment
Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account
News
Health
The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV
News
Physics
Are dark matter and dark energy related in anything apart from name?
News
Features
Health
Going vegan for January? Find out how much difference it really makes
Millions of people will try a vegan diet this month for Veganuary. But can short-term or part-time vegans really reap health and environmental benefits? 快猫短视频 put it to the test
Features
Health
Why dogs could hold the secret to longer, healthier human lives
Features
Life
For the love of dog: How our canine companions evolved for affection
Features
Physics
Metallic hydrogen would be the ultimate fuel – if we can make it
Features
More
Earth
Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?
The idea that a falling asteroid caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs surfaced 40 years ago. At the time, our reaction was rather sceptical
Regulars
Tom Gauld on how to remember which fridge you shouldn’t eat from
Regulars
Humans
The scientific shortcuts to cooking delicious caramelised onions
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on when a butterfly gets a new look
Regulars
Space
Jill Tarter: The hunt for alien life is only just beginning
Regulars
Regulars
Banana split: Artwork provokes fresh conflict between art and science
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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