Environment
The aviation industry has a plan to make planes green. It won’t work
News
This week's magazine
11 January 2020
Issue 3264
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Australia鈥檚 fires are a wake-up call – let鈥檚 reduce fossil fuel use
News
Health
We tested the squatty potty to find the best toilet pose
Features
Environment
Planting a trillion trees really can help us fight climate change
Features
Health
Relaxing relieves stress. Here鈥檚 the best way to do it
Features
Health
The zombie world of viruses could hold the key to evolution itself
Features
Health
Why walking your way to better health isn’t all about step counting
Features
Health
Eating more slowly and dining with others can boost your health
Features
Health
Discover how to sit to dodge the dangers of inactivity
Features
Health
How to breathe your way to better memory and sleep
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China
The cause of a pneumonia that has affected at least 59 people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China, remains unknown, but authorities have ruled out SARS, MERS and bird flu
News
Space
Gravitational wave mystery could be a sign of a new kind of black hole
News
Environment
Australian government report predicted severe wildfires 11 years ago
News
Space
Mysterious radio signal from space seems to have suddenly vanished
News
Health
Air pollution exposure may make our bones become weaker
News
Health
The immune cells inside tumours hint at a new way to treat cancers
News
Life
Hagfish tie their bodies into complicated knots to escape tight spots
News
Technology
Phone number theft through SIM-jacking is on the rise in the UK
News
Health
Pumping cold water inside the body could help after heart attacks
News
Space
Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet
News
Technology
A new battery could keep your phone charged for five days
News
Health
Chinese air quality regulations could put an end to ‘new car smell’
News
Life
Bottlenose dolphins are splitting into two different species
News
Environment
China has made huge strides cleaning up its polluted rivers
News
Humans
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt
News
Health
Delivering tuberculosis vaccine directly to veins may boost protection
News
Health
A molecule in your skin may explain why some cosmetics cause rashes
News
Life
Some starfish-like animals see without eyes by changing body colour
News
Life
Tiny T. rex fossils aren’t a new species – they are just teenagers
News
Analysis
Physics
It would take Iran more than 4 months to develop nuclear weapons
The US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani has raised fears of nuclear conflict, but Iran has been on the road to building nuclear weapons for some time
News
Technology
Dominic Cummings wants ‘weirdos’ to help run the UK. Will it work?
News
Environment
The aviation industry has a plan to make planes green. It won’t work
News
Humans
Embracing flat Earth science denialism can help us overcome it
News
Environment
The US election isn’t the only reason 2020 is huge for the planet
News
Features
Health
How to breathe your way to better memory and sleep
More than half of us breathe the wrong way, missing out on many benefits from better health to altered consciousness. Here's how to do it right
Features
Health
Discover how to sit to dodge the dangers of inactivity
Features
Health
Eating more slowly and dining with others can boost your health
Features
Health
Relaxing relieves stress. Here鈥檚 the best way to do it
Features
Health
Why walking your way to better health isn’t all about step counting
Features
Health
We tested the squatty potty to find the best toilet pose
Features
Health
The zombie world of viruses could hold the key to evolution itself
Features
Environment
Planting a trillion trees really can help us fight climate change
Features
Culture
Humans
UK鈥檚 Vagina Museum busts myths with surgery tales and glitter tampons
The crowd-funded activists behind London's Vagina Museum have ambitious plans to get us much better informed about the reality of vaginas, vulvas and virginity
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: tiny tech, a girl at the end of time and a mental mystery
Culture
Life
The odd history of the mulberry tree’s ties to silk, music and money
Culture
Humans
William Gibson’s Agency drops time-travel paradoxes for big questions
Culture
More
Tom Gauld on the scientific research facilities of Middle-earth
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Humans
How to make halloumi and ricotta cheese using ancient biotechnology
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on an exciting new lab formula
Regulars
Life
Why fun is so important and how we benefit from play
Regulars
Regulars
Is Google dooming animals to search engine extinction?
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
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Last Word
This week’s new questions: all about mulberries
Last Word
Twit or true: are owls really intelligent?
Last Word
