Health
The promise 鈥� and pitfalls 鈥� of monitoring our excrement
News
This week's magazine
20 August 2022
Issue 3400
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Society
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ‘not designed to withstand fighting’
A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe鈥檚 largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some threats, but not shelling
News
Environment
Europe鈥檚 extreme drought is exacerbating food and energy crises
News
Environment
US government ramps up effort to put in place ‘too hot to work’ rules
News
Environment
Drought in England: Dry rivers and stressed plants hit wildlife hard
News
Space
Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear
News
Health
People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition
News
Technology
Zephyr solar-powered drone smashes record with 2-month-long flight
News
Life
Saiga antelopes have increased 10-fold after mass die-off in 2015
News
Physics
Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time
News
Health
AI that recommends diets based on the microbiome relieves constipation
News
Society
US CO2 shortage worsened by contaminated gas from an extinct volcano
News
Space
Mars astronauts would get unsafe radiation doses even with shielding
News
Health
Cornea made from pig collagen gives people who were blind 20/20 vision
News
Health
Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth
News
Space
Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together
News
Space
Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor
News
Humans
Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak
News
Mind
Why thinking hard for several hours can leave you mentally exhausted
News
Technology
Underwater robot scans seabed to seek out the most harmful pollution
News
Technology
Big Tech and Civil War enthusiasts clash over historic US battlefields
News
Health
Vegetarian women have 33 per cent higher risk of breaking a hip
News
Life
Sponges can 鈥榮neeze鈥� and other sea creatures eat their mucus
News
Life
Bats show fewer signs of ageing while they are hibernating
News
Analysis
Environment
With drought in England more frequent, how can it keep water flowing?
Climate change and a growing population mean England needs long-term solutions like new reservoirs and desalination plants, not just short-term fixes like hosepipe bans
News
Mind
UK schools are teaching teenagers about mental health in the wrong way
News
Technology
What hackers get up to when left on an island in the Pacific
News
Features
Mathematics
Octonions: The strange maths that could unite the laws of nature
Could a system of eight-dimensional numbers help physicists find a single mathematical framework that describes the entire universe?
Features
Health
The secrets in our sewers helping protect us from infectious diseases
Features
Life
Why masses of new species have been staring us in the face all along
Features
Culture
Life
When Animals Dream review: Making the case for ‘animalhood’
In his new book, David Pe帽a-Guzm谩n argues that animals that can dream have a sense of self, and therefore a far more complex kind of "animalhood" than we thought possible
Culture
Humans
Scent review: How fragrant plants weave their magic
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: Final season of dystopian fantasy See comes to Apple TV+
Culture
Humans
Stray review: A game that lets you live your best cat life
Culture
More
Humans
How to dry the seeds from your garden to plant next spring
Expand your plant collection for free by saving seeds this year, storing them over the winter and sowing them next spring, says Clare Wilson
Regulars
Tom Gauld on Bob’s arrival in the geology department
Regulars
Twisteddoodles photographs the moon
Regulars
Regulars
Humans
Did Mayan game use ashes of dead rulers to make the balls?
Feedback explores a shocking Mayan game in Mexico, while discovering the true nature of Amazon and trying to avoid autonomous cars
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Could a dog such as Pomeranian be bred to be like a wolf?
Last Word
Why do even numbers feel ‘right’ to me, and odd ones ‘wrong’?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
