Environment
Fire and melting ice: The Arctic is having a terrifyingly bad year
News
This week's magazine
15 August 2020
Issue 3295
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
We must think globally not nationalistically to beat the coronavirus
News
Technology
Can static electricity make chemistry more efficient 鈥� and greener?
Features
Environment
Can we rely on tropical forests to stop runaway climate change?
Features
Technology
David Spiegelhalter: How to be a coronavirus statistics sleuth
Features
Health
The surprising ways little social interactions affect your health
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
We don’t know how accurate the UK’s new rapid coronavirus tests are
Two new tests that diagnose covid-19 within 90 minutes are being rolled out by the UK government 鈥� and while both are promising, neither is supported by publicly available, independent evidence
News
Health
If we ever make a covid-19 vaccine who should be first to get it?
News
Health
Nations buying up covid-19 vaccine doses endanger pandemic efforts
News
Environment
How covid-19 spawned a plastic pandemic 鈥� and what we can do about it
News
Technology
Baby-mounted cameras teach AI to 鈥榮ee鈥� through a child鈥檚 eyes
News
Health
Obesity may cause cancer simply because larger organs have more cells
News
Physics
Physicists have a massive problem as Higgs boson refuses to misbehave
News
Life
Fruit flies have special neurons that sense the wind to aid navigation
News
Health
Menopausal woman gives birth after blood plasma injection in ovaries
News
Health
Vaccine for major common cold virus could be ready for use by 2024
News
Humans
First poison arrows may have been loosed 70,000 years ago in Africa
News
Technology
Super-bright fluorescent solids can be 3D printed in any shape
News
Life
Deep-sea microbes survive on less energy than we thought possible
News
Space
Strange lightning on Jupiter may be caused by ammonia snowballs
News
Life
Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter
News
Technology
In-ear nerve-stimulating device helps people learning a new language
News
Health
Disease-carrying animals thrive on our farmed land and in our cities
News
Analysis
Environment
Fire and melting ice: The Arctic is having a terrifyingly bad year
As records tumble, 2020 has been an extraordinary year for the Arctic 鈥� and there is more to come unless we take action on climate change
News
Health
Genetic privacy: We must learn from the story of Henrietta Lacks
News
Physics
Why dark matter should be called something else
News
Features
Health
The surprising ways little social interactions affect your health
Greeting neighbours or gossiping with a colleague can boost your health and well-being, but coronavirus lockdowns are putting that in jeopardy. Here鈥檚 how to stay connected
Features
Environment
Can we rely on tropical forests to stop runaway climate change?
Features
Technology
Can static electricity make chemistry more efficient 鈥� and greener?
Features
Technology
David Spiegelhalter: How to be a coronavirus statistics sleuth
Features
Culture
Humans
Coded Bias review: An eye-opening account of the dangers of AI
Computers are worse at recognising women and people of colour than white men. Documentary Coded Bias shows that the problems don't stop there
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Netflix film on dedicating your life to contacting aliens
Culture
Humans
Superliminal review: This game will mess with your head
Culture
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Regulars
Humans
Why a winery is the best place to spot two solar eclipses
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