Life
Animal intelligence is so common, we must rethink our view of wildlife
News
This week's magazine
10 April 2021
Issue 3329
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Health
Covid-19 vaccine passports tested in UK as lockdown restrictions ease
The UK government says covid-19 vaccine passports are likely to become a 鈥渇eature of our lives,鈥� despite mounting political opposition
News
Health
Everything you need to know about covid-19 vaccines for children
News
Health
Experimental events offer glimpse of safe, post-lockdown nightlife
News
Health
Does AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine cause blood clots in younger people?
News
Space
Most alien civilisations risk fuelling global warming on their planets
News
Life
Ewes prefer to mate with submissive rams when given a choice
News
Humans
Bronze Age dogs ate little meat and had to feed on cereals instead
News
Earth
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest
News
Life
Lions use yawns to signal to others that it鈥檚 time to get moving
News
Technology
Living robots made from frog skin cells can sense their environment
News
Environment
Sponges can survive massive doses of radiation without getting cancer
News
Environment
Animal culture is so common that even fish and flies have it
News
Technology
UK nuclear fusion firms make progress towards providing clean power
News
Health
Handheld camera that can see radioactivity could help cancer surgeons
News
Technology
Robot guide dog could help people who are blind navigate
News
Life
Stingrays in the Amazon were stranded there by the Caribbean Sea
News
Environment
Sydney鈥檚 inland suburbs are 10掳C warmer than the coast in heat waves
News
Humans
People living 100,000 years ago spent time collecting crystals
News
Space
Blasts of intergalactic radiation hint at elusive mid-sized black hole
News
Humans
Football teams still get home advantage while stadiums are empty
News
Physics
Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers
News
Technology
Robot lizard can quickly climb a wall just like the real thing
News
Analysis
Environment
Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis
Global tree loss is undermining tactics to address the climate crisis. It聽is time world leaders got their acts together, says Adam Vaughan
News
Environment
We can’t let vaccines create bad incentives that make things worse
News
Features
Life
Human-like intelligence in animals is far more common than we thought
Stories of clever animals abound, from pigs playing video games to monkeys trading mobile phones 鈥� now tests reveal that they don't merely act on instinct but can think flexibly, like us
Features
Environment
Why rescuing the climate and saving biodiversity go hand in hand
Features
Life
Tanja Bosak interview: How Perseverance will hunt for life on Mars
Features
Culture
Health
Sound of Metal review: Riz Ahmed’s performance is Oscar-worthy
It's easy to see why Riz Ahmed has been nominated for an Oscar for the film Sound of Metal, in which he gives a harrowing, subtle performance as a drug addict-turned musician who loses his hearing
Culture
Technology
Your Computer is on Fire review: Wake up to tech’s inequalities
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: The Beauty of Chemistry lifts the lid on nature鈥檚 wonders
Culture
Humans
5 of the best time travel video games
Culture
More
Life
How to tenderise meat with mouth-watering marinades
Tasty and tender meat takes a good marinade. Testing theories behind them in the kitchen shows that it鈥檚 a trickier than it seems 鈥� but there is a clear winner, says Sam Wong
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on sexy scientist role play
Regulars
Tom Gauld’s archive for the impossible objects department
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
The site that lets you run the Ever Given aground anywhere you fancy
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Do I create gravitational waves when I crash onto the sofa?
Last Word
When I can鈥檛 remember something, how do I know that I once knew it?
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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Why do some people like gambling so much? (continued)
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