Health
What is the best way to lose weight and keep it off for good?
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This week's magazine
25 July 2020
Issue 3292
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Research is our best weapon in the fight against covid-19 and obesity
News
Physics
Why old school technology could shape the future of digital computing
Features
Earth
Friederike Otto interview: Can we sue oil giants for extreme weather?
Features
Health
Hidden nutrition: We don’t know what makes up 99 per cent of our food
Features
Physics
The four puzzles that tell us a cosmological revolution is coming
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Everything you need to know about the Oxford coronavirus vaccine
Promising findings from an initial trial of the Oxford vaccine for covid-19 have been published in The Lancet but many questions remain about whether the vaccine would work
News
Health
Mental health toll of the coronavirus pandemic is now becoming clear
News
Health
How did Australia lose its grip on covid-19 and can it get it back?
News
Health
UK could eliminate the coronavirus but it might do more harm than good
News
Health
What are face covering rules in England and why did the policy change?
News
Technology
Robots can now give full-body personalised massages at home
News
Space
The United Arab Emirates is launching its first mission to Mars
News
Humans
Humans reached the Americas 15,000 years earlier than thought
News
Space
The universe may be full of enormous clusters of tiny black holes
News
Environment
Beetle larvae that eat polystyrene may help solve plastic waste crisis
News
Health
Alzheimer鈥檚 disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain
News
Technology
Dutch army equipped with vibrating belts for hands-free navigation
News
Space
We don’t know how fast the universe is expanding, and that’s a problem
News
Health
Smallpox vaccination kits from the US civil war reveal historic virus
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Life
Sea turtles sometimes get really lost in the ocean on the way home
News
Space
Closest images ever taken of the sun show ‘campfires’ near its surface
News
Technology
Artificial spider webs shake to stay clean, just like the real thing
News
Physics
World鈥檚 thinnest mirror is made from a single layer of rubidium atoms
News
Environment
Less than a third of Antarctica remains untouched by humans
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Analysis
Health
What is the best way to lose weight and keep it off for good?
The UK government wants people to lose weight to reduce their risk of severe covid-19, but despite 40 years of rising obesity, we still don鈥檛 know the best way to permanently slim down
News
Environment
Lockdown is a unique chance to see how human activity affects wildlife
News
Features
Health
Hidden nutrition: We don’t know what makes up 99 per cent of our food
We know next to nothing about the vast majority of compounds in our diet. Now researchers are finding ways to study this "nutritional dark matter" 鈥� and what it could mean for our health
Features
Physics
The four puzzles that tell us a cosmological revolution is coming
Features
Physics
Why old school technology could shape the future of digital computing
Features
Earth
Friederike Otto interview: Can we sue oil giants for extreme weather?
Features
Culture
Humans
Brave New World review: Dystopian TV without lessons for today
A TV adaptation of Brave New World covers many of the same ideas as the book, but is stripped of relevance for the present day
Culture
Don’t miss: Superpowered siblings return in The Umbrella Academy
Culture
Humans
Afterland review: A thought-provoking tale of life without men
Culture
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Regulars
Keep your distance from cassowaries 鈥� and not just because of covid-19
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week’s new questions
Last Word
Are longer bicycles more efficient?
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Is there a maximum tree width?
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