Health
We can learn from ingenuity of space travel to solve problems on Earth
News
This week's magazine
6 June 2020
Issue 3285
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Health
UK contact tracing plans criticised as lockdown begins to lift
As coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted in England, critics say the UK government is moving too quickly and that contact tracing systems designed to slow the spread of the virus aren't yet ready
News
Health
Why have there been so many coronavirus deaths in the UK?
News
Health
124 coronavirus vaccines are in development 鈥� but will any work?
News
Health
Ventilators may not be the best treatment for severe covid-19
News
Space
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts into new era of private spaceflight
News
Humans
Neanderthal DNA linked to higher fertility in modern humans
News
Life
Oldest known parasite is a worm-like animal from 512 million years ago
News
Health
Grey hairs sometimes regain their colour when we feel less stressed
News
Technology
US voting data from millions of people is being traded on the dark web
News
Space
The Milky Way may have been shrunk down by ancient magnetic fields
News
Health
Parkinson鈥檚 disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa
News
Life
Chimps have local culture differences when it comes to eating termites
News
Health
First map of tumour microbiomes finds bacteria live in many cancers
News
Life
Cannibal dinosaurs resorted to eating each other when food was scarce
News
Space
Strange radio signals reveal the matter hiding between galaxies
News
Features
Physics
Why the universe I invented is right 鈥� but still not the final answer
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the cosmos 鈥� but that is only an approximation to a deeper truth, he says.
Features
Environment
Even nature has a price tag – and it’s key to a more sustainable world
Features
Health
Chronic Lyme disease: How one tick bite can ruin your health forever
Features
Culture
Humans
Bored in lockdown? Try a guide to the science of this familiar state
Many people are experiencing boredom during lockdown. Book Out of My Skull brings together decades of research on this familiar yet elusive feeling, writes Elle Hunt
Culture
Environment
There is so much we don’t yet know about fungi
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: TV series Snowpiercer is based on Bong Joon-ho’s fab film
Culture
Environment
A strange mix of people keep sneaking into Chernobyl
Culture
