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Pondering the big question of consciousness is a welcome distraction
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This week's magazine
2 May 2020
Issue 3280
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Health
Names of UK’s coronavirus science advisers to be revealed
The membership of the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies has so far been kept secret, but a list of names will soon be published, the UK's chief scientific adviser has said
News
Health
How many people have really died from covid-19 so far?
News
Health
Waste water tests could monitor 2 billion people for the coronavirus
News
Health
What is it like to be a covid-19 contact tracer and what do they do?
News
Health
BCG vaccine being trialled as potential protection against covid-19
News
Health
Drinking coffee appears to cause epigenetic changes to your DNA
News
Space
We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system
News
Health
Electrical devices implanted in the brain may help treat anorexia
News
Space
Mysterious 鈥楶lanet Nine鈥� on the solar system鈥檚 edge may not be real
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Environment
It鈥檚 impossible to predict if crucial Antarctic glacier will collapse
News
Health
Pet food can contain drug-resistant bacteria that may pass to humans
News
Technology
The US Navy patented a device to make laser 鈥榞host planes鈥� in mid-air
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Space
A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars鈥檚 ancient ocean
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Environment
Fracking wells in the US are leaking loads of planet-warming methane
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Earth
Plate tectonics may have started on Earth 3.2 billion years ago
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Health
Some babies who were born prematurely have weaker hearts as adults
News
Technology
Pocket-sized device tests DNA in blood samples for genetic conditions
News
Environment
Slower-moving hurricanes will cause more devastation as world warms
News
Technology
AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on Twitter activity
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Analysis
Health
Why it鈥檒l still be a long time before we get a coronavirus vaccine
Trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines are already under way, but it鈥檚 still likely to be years before one is ready and vaccination may not even be possible
News
Health
We must act quickly to avoid a pandemic-related mental health crisis
News
Humans
We can’t rely on rampant consumerism to get us out of this mess
News
Features
Health
What four coronaviruses from history can tell us about covid-19
Four coronaviruses cause around a quarter of all common colds, but each was probably deadly when it first made the leap to humans. We can learn a lot from what happened next
Features
Life
How the turtle got its shell: Amazing fossils are solving the mystery
Features
Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
Features
Culture
Life
Jane Goodall: We must protect chimps from being exposed to covid-19
Jane Goodall has tirelessly fought for a better world for humans and wildlife, and with covid-19 we must stay positive, she says聽
Culture
Humans
Notes from an Apocalypse review: A lively romp through the end of days
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Rick & Morty are returning to Netflix
Culture
Technology
Network Effect review: A glorious thought-provoking Murderbot tale
Culture
More
Tom Gauld on trying to get the story of Rapunzel just right
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
Regulars
Humans
The science of how ‘wok hei’ makes stir-fried food taste so good
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on an unlikely collaboration between people and nature
Regulars
Space
I’m a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system
Regulars
Regulars
Can you walk your pizza-sized tortoise during lockdown?
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This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Mysterious alignment: How do ancient monoliths still line up with the sun?
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How small does an animal have to be to have small fleas?
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