快猫短视频

View in the app Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app Find a previous edition online Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Health

The past can help us deal with the pandemic鈥檚 mental health fallout

Physics

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Environment

Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there’s a new reason to love them

Health

7 mental health expert tips on how to cope with the covid-19 pandemic

Health

How to protect your mental health in the time of coronavirus

Table of contents

Leaders

Health

The past can help us deal with the pandemic鈥檚 mental health fallout

Lessons learned from natural disasters and the military can help guide our responses to help people's mental health during the covid-19 pandemic

快猫短视频

Patrick Vallance (centre) is the UK's chief scientific adviser

Health

UK鈥檚 coronavirus science advice won鈥檛 be published until pandemic ends

The UK government says its coronavirus strategies are based on science, but the scientific advice it has received won鈥檛 be made public until after the pandemic

Health

Why are men more likely to get worse symptoms and die from covid-19?

Health

Can breathing exercises really help protect you from covid-19?

Health

End-of-life medical decisions being rushed through due to coronavirus

Environment

Huge volcanic eruption in 2018 was triggered by torrential rains

Technology

Vibrating clothes could make you feel like you鈥檙e wearing clouds

Humans

An AI can tell whether ancient faeces came from a person or a dog

Physics

Neutrinos may explain why we don鈥檛 live in an antimatter universe

Health

Not getting enough sleep may make you misread emotions on Zoom calls

Space

Interstellar comet Borisov came from a cold and distant home star

Life

Earth’s first life may have fuelled itself with a metal metabolism

Technology

The US Army has a 3D printer for ultra-strong steel gear and weapons

Technology

Quantum computer chips demonstrated at the highest temperatures ever

Life

Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

Space

Long space flights can increase the volume of astronauts鈥� brains

Technology

AI taught to instantly transform objects in image-editing software

Space

Asteroid Arrokoth may have broken its neck in 6400 km per hour impact

Health

Breastfed babies have fewer viruses in their guts that affect humans

Analysis

How useful are apps for containing coronavirus outbreaks?

Technology

There are many reasons why covid-19 contact-tracing apps may not work

Many countries are hoping to use contact-tracing apps to leave lockdown and suppress further coronavirus outbreaks, but the use of such technology has many issues

Health

An unequal society means covid-19 is hitting ethnic minorities harder

Humans

We’re still untangling Ramanujan’s mathematics 100 years after he died

Space

Astronomical time can help us put lockdown into perspective

Aperture

Space

Weird magnetic threads in sun’s corona seen for the first time

New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star

Features

Physics

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Are shark attacks and ice cream sales linked? Do drugs work? Being able to distinguish cause and effect is crucial. Now we have the maths to do it reliably

Environment

Dingoes are both pest and icon. Now there’s a new reason to love them

Health

How to protect your mental health in the time of coronavirus

Health

7 mental health expert tips on how to cope with the covid-19 pandemic

Culture

Space

We know the best spots to look for alien life 鈥� can we get to them?

Extraterrestrial oceans are an obvious place to search for alien life, but getting there and having a look won't be easy, says NASA's Kevin Hand in his book Alien Oceans

Humans

Science Diction review: The origins of jargon in bite-sized chunks

Humans

Don’t Miss: Biohackers on Netflix and a book on social isolation

Technology

Resident Evil 3 review: A glimpse into post-pandemic fiction

More

Sponsored

Stem Careers in the Brexit Era

The UK鈥檚 exit from the EU has had a mixed effect on scientists鈥� assessment of their international mobility and future job market prospects, according to the 2020 STEM Survey

Tom Gauld on when you have some parts leftover after a build

Humans

Dulce de leche: How to turn condensed milk into a tasty caramel sauce

Twisteddoodles on when the immune system overreacts

Humans

Seagulls aren’t menaces 鈥� they are fascinating and complex creatures

Regulars

Feedback on the news that the reverse universe is beige

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

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Dusty rain: Why does rain leave a residue behind and where does it come from?

ACHOO: Why do some people sneeze so many times?

This week鈥檚 new questions

Browse past issues

View all