Health
India’s crisis should be a warning against covid-19 complacency
News
This week's magazine
1 May 2021
Issue 3332
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Oxygen Express trains deliver supplies as India hit by covid-19 surge
Newly conceived "Oxygen Express" trains are re-routing supplies across India to meet a severe shortage of medical-grade oxygen, as the country鈥檚 coronavirus cases hit a record peak for the fifth day in a row
News
Health
Covid-19 lockdown has left young children vulnerable to some illnesses
News
Health
We’ll soon be able to tell whether you are immune to covid-19
News
Earth
Earth鈥檚 land may have formed 500 million years earlier than we thought
News
Life
Grasses pass genes from one species to another but we don鈥檛 know how
News
Life
Male parasitic wasps can detect females inside an infected host fly
News
Environment
AI face analysis can tell if cows and pigs are excited or stressed
News
Humans
Early Europeans shared a currency made from odd chunks of bronze
News
Space
China is about to start building a space station in orbit
News
Space
Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system鈥檚 neighbourhood
News
Humans
Glancing at your phone quickly prompts other people to do the same
News
Earth
Hailstones are not spheres 鈥� they鈥檙e shaped more like a rugby ball
News
Health
UK should set tougher air pollution limits, says Kissi-Debrah coroner
News
Space
Sun-like stars spotted ejecting huge bursts of matter into space
News
Space
NASA has produced oxygen on the surface of Mars for the first time
News
Technology
AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls
News
Environment
70 per cent of people live in countries without sustainable resources
News
Technology
Robot taught table etiquette can explain why it won’t follow the rules
News
Technology
Chemical code used to store Jane Austen quote in plastic molecules
News
Analysis
Features
Technology
Facebook vs Australia and the new battle to cut big tech down to size
The public spat between Facebook and Australia earlier this year presages a new effort to regulate big tech companies 鈥� but could that threaten the whole future of the web?
Features
Life
Suzanne Simard interview: How I uncovered the hidden language of trees
Features
Health
Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?
Features
Culture
Life
The Deep-Sea Podcast review: The mind-boggling mysteries of the deep
The deep sea has a reputation for being more mysterious than the moon, but that's changing. A new podcast delves into the latest news from the depths
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Netflix’s Jupiter’s Legacy features sci-fi parent envy
Culture
Environment
Exhibition puts on show the tech we need to avert the climate crisis
Culture
Environment
Greta Thunberg’s amazing year meeting the world’s climate scientists
Culture
More
Health
Allergies are on the rise 鈥� here’s how to help scientists find out why
If you experience seasonal allergies, you can track your symptoms to help researchers investigate their environmental triggers, finds Layal Liverpool
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on what to feed ducks instead of bread
Regulars
Tom Gauld on the subtle differences between geography and philosophy
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
The 拢1 million pixel that is the future of art (or not)
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why is traffic noise on roads louder when it is raining?
Last Word
How do spiders abseil to the floor so quickly when disturbed?
Last Word
Why can鈥檛 humans regrow limbs like an axolotl or a lizard?
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This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Should we engineer cats to stop their urge to kill (continued)?
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