Health
As climate crisis grows, vaccine push shows we can turn things around
News
This week's magazine
14 August 2021
Issue 3347
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快猫短视频
Environment
Earth will hit 1.5掳C climate limit within 20 years, says IPCC report
Earth is expected to hit the critical threshold of 1.5掳C warming due to climate change within the next 20 years, regardless of how deeply global governments cut greenhouse gas emissions under all five scenarios considered by a landmark scientific report
News
Health
Covid-19 vaccines: Everything you need to know about the leading shots
News
Life
Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean
News
Technology
US Navy is developing a solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days
News
Life
Organic blobs built in lab may be small step towards synthetic life
News
Humans
Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys
News
Health
Study of how genes influence menopause may improve fertility treatment
News
Physics
Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer
News
Health
快猫短视频s have worked out how to send viable mouse sperm on postcards
News
Space
The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic field
News
Life
Harvestman genome helps explain how arachnids got grasping legs
News
Life
Giant dinosaurs may have fasted like emperor penguins when laying eggs
News
Health
Asking processed food firms to cut calories voluntarily hasn’t worked
News
Humans
Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras
News
Analysis
Humans
Why are so many records being broken at the Tokyo Olympics?
World records seem to be tumbling at an impressive rate on the athletics track at this year鈥檚 Olympic games. Is new technology responsible, asks Laura Healey
News
Health
Why is it so hard to say whether plants are toxic or safe?
News
Features
Humans
The surprising ways the place where you work affects your performance
Your brain is exquisitely sensitive to your surroundings, tuning into external cues and distractions whether you like it or not. Understanding how this happens could change the way we work
Features
Physics
States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas
Features
Technology
Real milk, no cows needed: Lab-made dairy products are now a reality
Features
Culture
How astronomer Vera Rubin shone light on dark matter and fought sexism
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond by Ashley Jean Yeager paints an inspiring picture of Vera Rubin, who defied deep prejudice against female astronomers to find the best evidence of dark matter
Culture
Humans
I’m Your Man review: How to fall in love with a robot 鈥� maybe
Culture
Don’t Miss: Delightful Disney+ docuseries, Growing Up Animal
Culture
Journey to Infinity review: M. C. Escher’s art of the impossible
Culture
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Environment
Here’s how to spot invasive plants before they take over
Could the next Japanese knotweed be growing in your garden? Help find potential invasive species by grassing up the plant bullies in your flower beds, says Clare Wilson
Regulars
Twisteddoodles: Hey honey, how was work in the nervous system?
Regulars
Tom Gauld’s department of machine poetry research
Regulars
Regulars
What to do when sharing a golf course with a crocodile
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