This week's magazine
22 May 2021
Issue 3335
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
We must share vaccines globally in our fight against covid-19
Physics
Rules of attraction: Strange chemical bonds that defy the textbooks
Environment
Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world
Health
How the way you move can change the way you think and feel
Table of contents
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Health
Indian coronavirus variant is threatening UK plans to end lockdown
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµs warn that lockdown measures may have been eased too soon in the UK considering the surge in cases of a coronavirus variant from India
Health
What’s the fairest way to share covid-19 vaccines around the world?
Health
Cuba’s bid to vaccinate all citizens with home-grown covid-19 shots
Life
Female mice that lose a male partner are wary of taking a new one
Space
Europa’s icy shell may have pockets of water that could support life
Environment
On the hunt for platypus DNA in Australia’s waterways
Health
Early signs of Parkinson’s disease could be spotted in the nose
Life
Whale sharks gulp down air to float vertically while feeding
Space
Astronomers may have found black holes that formed soon after big bang
Technology
The way we use emojis evolves like language and changes their meaning
Health
Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too
Life
Deep-sea snailfish repairs its DNA to survive 7 km below the surface
Humans
Isotope study hints ancient Greeks used foreign fighters in key battle
Physics
Clouds of atoms trap light in a way that could store quantum data
Environment
Climate change is speeding up the degradation of ancient rock art
Technology
AI lets man with paralysis type by just thinking about handwriting
Analysis
Environment
A mysterious rise in methane levels is sparking global warming fears
Levels of the powerful greenhouse gas methane are rising faster than expected with a record increase in 2020, and no one knows why
Technology
Artificial intelligence has been of little use for diagnosing covid-19
Health
Does eating celery really burn more calories than it contains?
Features
Health
How the way you move can change the way you think and feel
New research suggests the connection between exercise and the brain goes deeper than you might think. These six kinds of movement can help make you more creative, boost your self-esteem and reach altered states of consciousness
Environment
Kimberly Nicholas interview: How to be human in a warming world
Physics
Rules of attraction: Strange chemical bonds that defy the textbooks
Culture
Health
Power to the Public review: How digital tech can ease global problems
Governments must make better use of digital technology to serve the needs of their populations and tackle the world's biggest challenges, argues a new book by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank
Has science fiction become too serious?
Humans
Don’t Miss: Netflix original anime Eden is a sci-fantasy with robots
Humans
In Silico review: The ambitious project to recreate the human brain
More
Life
Animal sounds hold clues to biodiversity – help scientists unlock them
From recording early morning birdsong in the Dawn Chorus app to identifying whales from their vocalisations, bioacoustics is becoming a key conservation tool. Here’s how to help scientists track biodiversity
Twisteddoodles: Is your dog a cross between a pug and a Pekingese?
Tom Gauld’s institute of nursery rhyme studies
Regulars
The peculiar case of asking Alexa for the mass of a neutrino
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