Health
Forget about blame with miscarriage: its function is entirely natural
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This week's magazine
8 August 2020
Issue 3294
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Table of contents
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Health
Opening schools in UK without more testing risks covid-19 second wave
The UK faces a second wave of coronavirus infections this winter if the country鈥檚 testing and contact tracing system does not improve by the time schools reopen, researchers have warned
News
Health
Coronavirus: US has no cohesive plan to tackle massive second wave
News
Health
Finding coronavirus superspreaders may be key to halting a second wave
News
Health
How to hug people in a coronavirus-stricken world
News
Life
Leonardo da Vinci saw a whale fossil that opened his mind to deep time
News
Space
Dark matter map hints at cracks in our understanding of the universe
News
Life
Termite intruders evolved cowardice to squat in another species鈥� nest
News
Health
Lyme disease vaccine found to be safe and effective in clinical trial
News
Space
NASA has launched its Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter
News
Life
Tiny mammals once scavenged meat from giant dinosaur carcasses
News
Humans
Beautiful shell carving was part of Incan offering to Lake Titicaca
News
Technology
Australia will use robot boats to find asylum seekers at sea
News
Life
Seal lice can survive the pressure found 4000 metres under the sea
News
Health
These are the 12 ways you can drastically cut your dementia risk
News
Technology
Quantum version of the ancient game of Go could be ultimate AI test
News
Space
Extreme heat from the sun is baking a thin crust on Mercury鈥檚 surface
News
Physics
Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields
News
Health
Boosting gut microbes helps protect mice against Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
News
Space
The best view of the stars from Earth is on a hill in Antarctica
News
Technology
Changing how we make solar panels could reduce their carbon emissions
News
Environment
Deep-sea anglerfish fuse bodies to mate thanks to an odd immune system
News
Space
We can now predict dangerous solar flares a day before they happen
News
Analysis
Health
What Hiroshima teaches us about coronavirus and the future of humanity
The nuclear bomb told us we are the greatest threat to our own survival 鈥� and the covid-19 pandemic shows the lessons still to learn, say Anders Sandberg and Thomas Moynihan
News
Health
Nutrition memes forget that there is no such thing as a ‘healthy food’
News
Features
Life
A radical new theory rewrites the story of how life on Earth began
It has long been thought that the ingredients for life came together slowly, bit by bit. Now there is evidence it all happened at once in a chemical big bang
Features
Health
The real reasons miscarriage exists 鈥� and why it’s so misunderstood
Features
Humans
Lisa Piccirillo: How I cracked a 50-year-old maths problem in a week
Features
Culture
Space
The Lady Astronaut series tackles historical sexism brilliantly
Two recent books imagine a different history of science, but one handles the prejudices of the time much better than the other, says Jacob Aron
Culture
Humans
The Expanse review: A sprawling spaceship-studded saga you should see
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 miss: Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in Project Power
Culture
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Humans
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