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Human cloning

Humans

Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?

plastic cow in Petri dish

Environment

Cultured meat needs a lot more government backing 鈥� for all our sakes

artwork

Mind

Don’t stress: The scientific secrets of people who keep cool heads

sea turtle hatchlings

Life

Why climate change is creating more female sea turtles and crocodiles

sushi

Environment

Lab-grown meat will be on your plate soon. It won’t be what you expect

Table of contents

Leaders

plastic cow in Petri dish

Environment

Cultured meat needs a lot more government backing 鈥� for all our sakes

Lab-grown meat could change the world for the better, but relying on the free market to develop it is a recipe for disaster. Governments must step up

快猫短视频

Medical imaging is being used to聽work out how the coronavirus affects the body

Health

Why coronavirus superspreaders may mean we avoid a deadly pandemic

The covid-19 virus may mostly be transmitted by superspreaders, which means it might be easier to contain the outbreak and prevent it going pandemic

Health

We’ll soon know if covid-19 can be treated with HIV and Ebola drugs

Health

China is using mass surveillance tech to fight new coronavirus spread

Physics

Antimatter looks just like matter 鈥� which is a big problem for physics

Life

Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells

Space

An exoplanet is generating radio waves from its red dwarf sun

Humans

Ancient people tried to stop rising seas with spears or fiery boulders

Mind

Controversial psychology tests are often still used in US courts

Space

NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system鈥檚 strangest moons

Life

Prehistoric giant turtle shell is the biggest ever found

Environment

Antarctic ice melt could push sea levels to rise 1.5 metres by 2100

Technology

US military face recognition system could work from 1 kilometre away

Space

Astronomy group finds Starlink satellites will have ‘negative impact’

Life

Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills

Life

This is how jellyfish can sting you without even touching you

Humans

DNA analysis of people in West Africa reveals ‘ghost’ human ancestor

Physics

Record-breaking quantum memory brings quantum internet one step closer

Life

75-million-year old eggshells suggest most dinosaurs were warm-blooded

Humans

Great ape brains have a feature that we thought was unique to humans

Environment

Deepwater Horizon spill may have been a third bigger than estimated

Analysis

Woman sneezing

Health

Will the covid-19 coronavirus outbreak die out in the summer鈥檚 heat?

It has been suggested the covid-19 outbreak could fade as the northern hemisphere warms, but we don鈥檛 know if this is the case

Environment

The huge problem of food waste could be twice as big as we thought

Humans

Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?

Comment

Coronavirus: How maths is helping to answer crucial covid-19 questions

Health

The ‘ancestral diet’ doesn’t make sense and relies on lazy stereotypes

Aperture

Earth

Lush island landscape in Polish lake captured from above

To find subjects to photograph, Kacper Kowalski takes to the air in a paramotor or gyrocopter, barely steering to allow the wind to dictate the direction

Features

artwork

Mind

Don’t stress: The scientific secrets of people who keep cool heads

Studies of the world's most unflappable people point to ways we can all better manage stress 鈥� and are even inspiring the first stress vaccine

Environment

Lab-grown meat will be on your plate soon. It won’t be what you expect

Life

Why climate change is creating more female sea turtles and crocodiles

Culture

Environment

Dark Waters review: A lawyer’s epic fight with a chemicals giant

After cows start dying and people get sick, a corporate lawyer in the film Dark Waters decides to switch sides and take on chemicals Goliath DuPont

Humans

Why the human race may be less gullible than you think

Humans

Don’t miss: I Am Not Okay With This, aged brains, and invisible worlds

Space

For All Mankind review: A superb alternative history of the space race

More

Tom Gauld is documenting his process in three volumes

Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon

Pancake day: A recipe for pancakes and the science of how it works

Twisteddoodles has found the world’s most advanced robot

Humans

I scanned thousands of research images by eye to expose academic fraud

Regulars

快猫短视频 finally tracks down the world-famous lazy olm

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Mulberry stains: why do milk and juice make them disappear?

Fumbling fingers: Why do fingers get clumsy in the cold?

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