Health
Our five appetites mean our hunger is far more complex than we thought
News
This week's magazine
23 May 2020
Issue 3283
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Table of contents
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Health
Covid-19 pandemic risks worst global food crisis in decades
The covid-19 pandemic鈥檚 impact on hunger around the world could be worse than when food prices spiked calamitously in 2007 and 2008, a leading food security expert warns
News
Health
How can countries know when it鈥檚 safe to ease coronavirus lockdowns?
News
Health
Planes and offices must improve ventilation to reduce coronavirus risk
News
Health
Coronavirus and covid-19: Your questions answered
News
Environment
We may have missed half the microplastics in the ocean
News
Space
ESA spacecraft might accidentally fly through the tail of a comet
News
Health
Fidget spinner device can diagnose UTIs in under an hour without a lab
News
Environment
‘Zombie’ fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow
News
Technology
Virtual reality game lets you play with hypercubes in four dimensions
News
Health
Mouse embryos that are 4 per cent human are step towards spare organs
News
Earth
Two tiny outcrops in Hawaii are the top of the world鈥檚 largest volcano
News
Health
Shock therapy temporarily improves woman鈥檚 colour blindness
News
Health
People 鈥榮ee鈥� letters traced on their brain鈥檚 surface by an implant
News
Sponsored
Algae transplant could protect coral reefs threatened by warming seas
News
Physics
Cold war nuclear bomb tests changed rainfall patterns over the UK
News
Analysis
Health
Smoking probably puts you at greater risk of coronavirus, not less
Early data indicated that smokers may be less likely to be hospitalised with coronavirus, but broader analyses suggest smokers are actually at higher risk
News
Life
The strange physics of why blue jays look blue even though they aren’t
News
Features
Health
You have five appetites, not one, and they are the key to your health
Forget the idea of a single drive to eat 鈥� you have evolved distinct appetites for various foods. This makes it easier to eat exactly what you need, and helps explain the obesity epidemic
Features
Physics
The surprising benefits of contemplating the death of the universe
Features
Health
Coronavirus is evolving. Knowing how could help us stop the pandemic
Features
Culture
Earth
Why do scientists give some species such unusual names?
The strange ways we name new species and the politics involved is explained in Stephen Heard's book Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider
Culture
Technology
The Vast of Night review: A sort of slow-burn 1950s Stranger Things
Culture
Health
Don’t miss: The science of taking a stroll
Culture
Technology
Telling Lies review: A twisting mystery for the age of video calls
Culture
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