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This week's magazine
8 February 2020
Issue 3268
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
We are still trying to understand how dangerous Wuhan coronavirus is
News
Life
Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
Features
Health
The flawed experiment that destroyed the world’s faith in psychiatry
Features
Humans
Jess Wade’s one-woman mission to diversify Wikipedia’s science stories
Features
Humans
Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
What life is like in Wuhan during the coronavirus lockdown
Deserted streets, lines at pharmacies and overwhelmed hospitals 鈥� what life is like at the heart of China鈥檚 coronavirus epidemic
News
Health
Will the coronavirus become a pandemic – and what happens if it does?
News
Health
The three things we really need to know about the Wuhan coronavirus
News
Health
Coronavirus: Why infections from animals are such a deadly problem
News
Health
Privacy of hundreds of thousands of genetic volunteers may be at risk
News
Environment
The seabed is sinking under the weight of water from melting ice caps
News
Space
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink affecting telescope images
News
Technology
Soft finger-like robots can sweat to cool down just like humans
News
Environment
Climate forecast says we may break the record for warmest year by 2025
News
Physics
This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero
News
Health
AI is being used to select embryos for women undergoing IVF
News
Health
Pill with tiny needle for painless injections passes first human trial
News
Space
The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface
News
Life
Male moths genetically modified to kill females released in the wild
News
Space
Two stars with an odd wobble are stretching space and time around them
News
Health
Vegetarians may have a lower risk of urinary tract infections
News
Humans
Neanderthals never lived in Africa, but their genes got there anyway
News
Analysis
Health
New coronavirus: How soon will a treatment be ready and will it work?
Developing new therapies to treat the Wuhan coronavirus could take a year or more, but there are some existing drugs and experimental treatments that might help save lives
News
Health
Why concerns of a teenage vaping epidemic may be overblown
News
Environment
We need nuclear power to fight climate change, but is it doomed?
News
Humans
Same-sex attraction isn’t an evolutionary paradox – here’s why
News
Environment
Net zero goals are galvanising action on climate change at long last
News
Features
Humans
Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution
One of civilisation鈥檚 most revolutionary inventions was long thought to be the brainchild of ancient Egyptian scribes. But its true creators may have been far less glamorous
Features
Health
The flawed experiment that destroyed the world’s faith in psychiatry
Features
Life
Spiders think with their webs, challenging our ideas of intelligence
Features
Humans
Jess Wade’s one-woman mission to diversify Wikipedia’s science stories
Features
Culture
Humans
How to Argue with a Racist smashes race myths that plague society
Adam Rutherford's new book busts persistent myths about race, sexual prowess and intelligence that beset society, giving us a way to fight back
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: Maternal artworks, blooming islands and rewarding maths
Culture
Star Trek: Picard explores what happens when robots go rogue
Culture
Humans
What would our lives be like if Amazon or Tinder ran an entire city?
Culture
More
Humans
How tempering chocolate hacks its crystalline structure
Here's how to use chocolate's crystalline structure to your advantage to make delicious tempered chocolate
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on the best scientific greetings cards
Regulars
Health
From alcohol to ketamine, what’s the truth about recreational drugs?
Regulars
Regulars
Stockbrokers take on cows in a battle of investment strategy
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