Health
We鈥檙e starting to understand how viruses trigger chronic conditions
News
This week's magazine
4 March 2023
Issue 3428
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Long-neglected chronic conditions finally come into the spotlight
News
Society
Should you have children? The true costs and benefits of parenthood
Features
Physics
This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original
Features
Environment
Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
Northern lights: The best pictures of the aurora taken across the UK
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, usually occur near the Arctic 鈥� but solar activity has seen much of the UK treated to the spectacular nighttime display
News
Health
Global cholera outbreak: More than 1 billion people are at risk
News
Life
Stripy wind turbines could prevent fatal seabird collisions
News
Environment
US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water
News
Environment
Huge ecological disaster in river Oder last year could repeat in 2023
News
Technology
Video games have been getting perspective wrong, but now there’s a fix
News
Life
High-tech research ship ready to seek new life at hydrothermal vents
News
Health
A single injection could protect babies against RSV over winter
News
Technology
Google says error correction will lead to useful quantum computers
News
Environment
Artificial urban islands could supply homes in Maldives as waters rise
News
Health
HIIT could be safe for people with heart problems
News
Space
Huge young galaxies seen by JWST may upend our models of the universe
News
Life
Elephants may remember the smell of a relative’s dung for 12 years
News
Health
Rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups linked to gum disease
News
Health
Fasting for 24 hours could weaken the immune system
News
Humans
Some of the earliest modern humans in Europe used bows and arrows
News
Health
Endometriosis could be controlled with monthly antibody injections
News
Technology
Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards
News
Life
Bark beetles use the smell of fungus to pick the best trees to infest
News
Analysis
Health
We鈥檙e starting to understand how viruses trigger chronic conditions
Widespread cases of long covid have shone a spotlight on the role viral infections play in previously neglected conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
News
Environment
We can’t engineer our way out of the water crisis in the Southwest US
News
Physics
Why uncertainty is part of science – especially quantum mechanics
News
Features
Physics
This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original
An idea called almost quantum theory predicts particles could have stronger correlations than we've ever observed. If tests show it to be true, it would be a huge scientific upset
Features
Society
Should you have children? The true costs and benefits of parenthood
Features
Environment
Lake levels are rising across the world and climate change is to blame
Features
Culture
Humans
Magisteria review: How science and religion have a tangled past
Some argue that science and religion have always been separate and at war, but an eye-opening new book from Nicholas Spencer reveals complex and intertwined histories
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: The Mandalorian’s third season, streaming on Disney+
Culture
Humans
Frozen Head review: Why do some people want to be frozen after death?
Culture
Environment
The Earth Transformed review: The untold history of humans and climate
Culture
More
Regulars
Did public demand to watch moss grow overwhelm the ‘Mosscam’?
Feedback's repeated attempts to view a new webcam remotely monitoring the progress of Antarctic moss end in failure
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
In which direction in the sky did the big bang take place? (part 2)
Last Word
How do eardrums convey sound? Don鈥檛 the various frequencies interfere?
Last Word
Do I weigh more at night due to the gravitational pull of the sun?
Last Word
