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How everyone decided trees will save the planet 鈥� and why they won鈥檛
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This week's magazine
29 February 2020
Issue 3271
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Coronavirus is a pandemic in all but name as the infection goes global
News
Health
Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness
Features
Mind
People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths
Features
Physics
The antimatter factory about to solve the universe’s greatest mystery
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Covid-19: Our chance to contain the coronavirus may already be over
We don鈥檛 know the sources of many of the covid-19 cases in South Korea and Italy, suggesting the virus is now spreading untraceably among communities
News
Health
Exclusive: Brain scans used to read minds of intensive care patients
News
Environment
Svalbard doomsday vault gets first big seed deposit since upgrade
News
Space
A planet could have been stolen from the solar system as it formed
News
Environment
We really can control the weather – but it may not be very useful
News
Life
Solar storms may interfere with the ability of whales to navigate
News
Environment
Australia bush fires burned a globally unprecedented area of forest
News
Space
Five things we have learned about Mars from NASA’s InSight mission
News
Technology
Robots are taking manufacturing jobs but making firms more productive
News
Space
A wobbling star may explain pattern of weird radio signals from space
News
Life
Earliest known cave-dwelling animal is a 99-million-year-old cockroach
News
Health
CRISPR safety switch can make cells self-destruct if they go rogue
News
Technology
Hunt through satellite images of Earth with an AI search engine
News
Life
Some ants disinfect food by drinking the acid they spray at enemies
News
Health
We now know how much our genes influence the risk of contracting HIV
News
Life
Blue tits learn to avoid gross food by watching videos of other birds
News
Technology
AI could help make fast-charging, long-lasting electric car batteries
News
Life
Watch tadpoles breathe by sucking in air bubbles at water’s surface
News
Life
Cretaceous insect discovered with extremely weird antennae
News
Humans
70,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead
News
Analysis
Environment
Keep raising money to save the pandas – it helps other animals too
Some conservationists have criticised fundraising efforts that focus on "flagship" species like pandas or tigers, warning this could harm less well-known species, but that turns out not to be the case
News
Technology
Can we quit cobalt batteries fast enough to make electric cars viable?
News
Earth
How everyone decided trees will save the planet 鈥� and why they won鈥檛
News
Environment
E-scooters are a disaster for cities 鈥� but we must embrace them
News
Space
The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe鈥檚 most amazing objects
News
Features
Health
Ancient viruses buried in our DNA may reawaken and cause illness
Stress or infection may prompt viruses hidden in our genome to stagger back to life, contributing to some cases of multiple sclerosis, diabetes and schizophrenia
Features
Mind
People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths
Features
Physics
The antimatter factory about to solve the universe’s greatest mystery
Features
Culture
Space
Journey to the Savage Planet review: It’s wacky but not in a good way
There鈥檚 nothing like crash-landing on an alien planet. Journey to the Savage Planet doesn't always get it right, but it has echoes of classic Metroid Prime, says Jacob Aron
Culture
Technology
Will Instagram filters alter our view of beauty and who we are?
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: Netflix’s Altered Carbon, Reply All and our future fossils
Culture
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Tom Gauld is forever trying to draw a stone being pushed up a hill
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Mind
Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union
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Sponsored
快猫短视频 survey shows science jobs are long and fulfilling
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Humans
Make kimchi at home by cultivating a friendly microbial ecosystem
Regulars
Twisteddoodles plots the graphs that appear in the news
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Humans
How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects
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