Environment
What Alaska’s record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic’s future
News
This week's magazine
13 August 2022
Issue 3399
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Climate change will intensify UK droughts so we must take action now
News
Health
The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
Features
Physics
5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe
Features
Life
What Earth鈥檚 mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
Features
Table of contents
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Environment
What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?
The US senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest climate spending package in US history. How big of an effect will it have?
News
Humans
Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered
News
Technology
Artificial neuron swaps dopamine with rat brain cells like a real one
News
Health
Immunity for common cold coronaviruses may ward off severe covid-19
News
Health
One in 8 people got long covid after infection early in the pandemic
News
Technology
If cryptocurrencies are unhackable, how do they keep getting stolen?
News
Health
Transfusing blood from an old mouse to a younger mouse causes ageing
News
Life
Labrador dogs gene edited and cloned to prevent inherited hip disease
News
Space
Gamma ray bursts could help unravel how fast the universe is expanding
News
Environment
These are the UK supermarket items with the worst environmental impact
News
Life
Early humans may have wiped out many turtles millions of years ago
News
Space
JWST has caught two galaxies smashing together and sparking starbursts
News
Space
JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy
News
Life
E. coli that is recoded to be virus resistant may aid drug production
News
Technology
Experimental earphone can 鈥榟ear鈥� commands user is silently mouthing
News
Health
Blood substitute repairs damaged organs hours after heart stops
News
Environment
How weevils have become weapons in UK’s fight against invasive plants
News
Physics
Quantum computers would be better at Wordle than classical ones
News
Life
Pitcher plants use raindrop impacts to fling insects into their trap
News
Technology
Using hand gestures can improve your experience of video calls
News
Health
RSV vaccine that may protect against bronchiolitis has promise in mice
News
Analysis
Environment
What Alaska’s record-breaking wildfires mean for the Arctic’s future
Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over 鈥� the environmental effects could last decades
News
Environment
Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy
News
Environment
Will Chile’s new constitution make it the first truly green state?
News
Features
Health
The power of quiet: The mental and physical health benefits of silence
In an increasingly noisy world, neuroscientists are discovering exactly what kind of silence has the most dramatic impact on your mental health 鈥� from flotation tanks to guided meditation 鈥� and how much you really need
Features
Physics
5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe
Features
Life
What Earth鈥檚 mysterious infancy tells us about the origins of life
Features
Culture
Humans
On Sonorous Seas review: What a dead whale can tell us
When a beaked whale carcass washed up near her home, part of a mass stranding around the region, Mhairi Killin was inspired to launch an artistic challenge to the military's impact in the area
Culture
Humans
Am I Normal? review: Deep-dive sets us straight on our need for norms
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Netflix’s new alternative reality drama Look Both Ways
Culture
Humans
Five Days at Memorial review: The hospital hit by Hurricane Katrina
Culture
More
Space
How to spot the group of stars known as the Teapot
Look out for the Teapot, a group of stars that looks as if it has the steam of the Milky Way coming out of its spout
Regulars
Tom Gauld on the ultimate challenge
Regulars
Twisteddoodles: mathematically minded vs mathematically mindless
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
Egyptian mummy鈥檚 head discovered in Kent attic
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
What would be the best way to fossilise my body after I die?
Last Word
Does my electric vehicle weigh more after I have charged it?
Last Word
