Health
Vaccine results show we can end the pandemic, but hurdles lie ahead
News
This week's magazine
18 November 2020
Issue 3309
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Moderna coronavirus vaccine trial produces best results yet
Early results suggest the Moderna vaccine is even more effective than the Pfizer vaccine, including in older people, boosting hopes that we might end up with several vaccines against covid-19
News
Health
We can’t be certain the coronavirus vaccines will stop the pandemic
News
Health
Heidi Larson interview: How to stop covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
News
Health
What are mRNA vaccines and how useful will they be?
News
Health
Living electrodes for linking brains to computers tested in rats
News
Space
Satellites with flashing LEDs could help avoid catastrophic collisions
News
Humans
Our supposed earliest human relative may have walked on four legs
News
Space
Repeated radio bursts from nearby star suggest such signals are common
News
Life
Some male spiders tie up females before mating to avoid being eaten
News
Technology
This touch-sensitive glove is made from stretchy optical fibres
News
Technology
Gel layer inspired by camel fur could keep food and medicines cool
News
Life
鈥楪odzilla鈥� wasps drag caterpillars out of water to lay eggs in them
News
Life
Lizards that lost their legs re-evolved them as the climate got wetter
News
Space
Dust storms on Mars are tossing water from its atmosphere into space
News
Health
Bacteria found in yogurt may help bone fractures heal faster聽
News
Analysis
Health
We need to be more careful when talking about suicide and the pandemic
Worries that the pandemic would lead to a rise in suicides haven鈥檛 come true. We must now avoid creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, says Clare Wilson
News
Comment
California’s latest erosion of gig worker rights could be going global
News
Features
Health
What will it take to get a covid-19 vaccine to the world?
Once a vaccine is approved, the race is on to overcome the biggest logistics challenge in history to distribute it around the globe
Features
Humans
Systemic racism: What research reveals about the extent of its impact
Features
Technology
Emotion-detecting AIs are here 鈥� do they work and how should we feel?
Features
Culture
Vaccine misinformation can be fatal 鈥� how can we counter it?
Stuck by Heidi Larson is a book about the devastating effects of vaccine misinformation. Its lessons on how emotions and culture play a part are particularly important now
Culture
Life
Another Round review: Would we benefit from always being a bit drunk?
Culture
Don鈥檛 Miss: Can we halt a sixth mass extinction?
Culture
Humans
Away review: An exquisite animated film created entirely by one person
Culture
More
Environment
How to grow delicious blackcurrants despite climate change
Blackcurrant bushes struggle with increasingly warmer winters brought on by rising temperatures, but there are new varieties that will fare better, says Clare Wilson
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on when there’s the wrong type of doctor in the room
Regulars
Tom Gauld’s on why 10001 days is not as long as it seems
Regulars
Regulars
Watch out cybercriminals! UK military ditches punch-card secret codes
Using punch-cards for cryptographic keys, plus the UK鈥檚 fax problem and when AI gets confused, in Feedback鈥檚 weird weekly round-up
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
If plants communicate via their roots, do they get lonely in pots?
Last Word
Why do we groan or say 鈥榦hoo鈥� when we sit down or stand up?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
We often see dead foxes on our farm and they just decompose in situ. So, does anything eat foxes? (continued)
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