Technology
Politicians are mulling a global tax rate to tame the tech giants
News
This week's magazine
7 March 2020
Issue 3272
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Our fight against climate change could help us rein in coronavirus too
News
Space
How red is a black hole? The strange reality of what space looks like
Features
Humans
Gamifying hate: How alt-right extremists recruit and mobilise online
Features
Health
The secret to killing cancer may lie in its deadly power to evolve
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Coronavirus: UK government reveals action plan to combat an outbreak
The UK government has published a 27-page document detailing how the country will respond to a growing covid-19 outbreak. Police and health workers may be restricted to urgent duties
News
Health
Coronavirus may have been circulating undetected in the US for 6 weeks
News
Health
How badly prepared is the world for a coronavirus pandemic?
News
Health
Coronavirus: What are the worst symptoms and how deadly is covid-19?
News
Health
Coronavirus: What you need to know to prepare for a covid-19 pandemic
News
Health
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to knock $1 trillion off global economy
News
Technology
Surprise contender Honeywell enters the quantum computing race
News
Mind
Meet the compulsive robot who could help us treat OCD better
News
Space
First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together
News
Space
Earth has acquired a brand new moon that’s about the size of a car
News
Humans
Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies
News
Life
Silver uses a surprising trick to stop the spread of bacteria
News
Space
Our galaxy鈥檚 huge black hole may have created organic molecules
News
Health
Gut bacteria may be responsible for bowel disorders including cancers
News
Humans
Aboriginal Australians hunted kangaroos with dingoes a century ago
News
Space
China鈥檚 rover has discovered what lies beneath the moon鈥檚 far side
News
Humans
We have only just figured out how human feet work
News
Life
Seagulls are more likely to pick up food that humans have handled
News
Health
US opioid crisis: 100,000 overdose deaths may have gone uncounted
News
Life
It turns out loads of frogs and salamanders are fluorescent
News
Life
Weird worm is earliest known animal to evolve away body parts
News
Analysis
Health
Covid-19: Why won’t the WHO officially declare a coronavirus pandemic?
With outbreaks in multiple countries, the new coronavirus looks like a pandemic, but the World Health Organization won't declare one because governments may react in the wrong way
News
Health
We were warned 鈥� so why couldn鈥檛 we prevent the coronavirus outbreak?
News
Environment
Binge watching TV isn’t as bad for the climate as some reports suggest
News
Technology
Politicians are mulling a global tax rate to tame the tech giants
News
Health
China has shut all of its wild animal markets 鈥� it was long overdue
News
Environment
Going car-free was painful 鈥� but you should do it too
News
Features
Space
How red is a black hole? The strange reality of what space looks like
Our images of deep space are spectacular, but don鈥檛 reflect what our eyes would see. Here's what their stunning true colours reveal about the cosmos
Features
Humans
Gamifying hate: How alt-right extremists recruit and mobilise online
Features
Health
The secret to killing cancer may lie in its deadly power to evolve
Features
Culture
Life
This desert ant can run at the equivalent of 600 kilometres per hour
Desert ants zigzag around the searing sand at high speed but they always manage to find their way home. A new book explains their amazing abilities
Culture
Health
The Dream Season 2 review: How the wellness industry ropes people in
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: War in Westworld, the power of sight and unearthly audio
Culture
Life
Greenwood review: Can humanity survive a tree apocalypse?
Culture
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Tom Gauld on scientists explaining theories to their mothers
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Humans
How to make a sourdough starter and delicious sourdough bread
Regulars
Twisteddoodles ponders if disaster movies were real
Regulars
Humans
Autism isn’t a defect 鈥� here’s why we should embrace neurodiversity
Regulars
Regulars
The Hogwarts houses that attract different types of doctor
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Hot and cold: Why do you feel cold at the same temperature in winter?
Last Word
Atomic space: What is in the space between a proton and an electron?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
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