Health
People think drugs like Wegovy are a quick fix. So what if they are?
News
This week's magazine
15 July 2023
Issue 3447
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Environment
The past week was the hottest ever recorded on Earth
The record for the hottest average global air temperature was broken three times this week, making the past seven days the hottest since instrumental records began in the 1850s
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Earth
Canadian lake selected as site to mark the start of the Anthropocene
News
Environment
Summer 2022 heatwaves killed 61,000 people in Europe
News
Life
Sex between two males is extremely common in wild macaque monkeys
News
Health
Robot injects drugs into back of eyeball more accurately than surgeons
News
Physics
Gravitational waves spark hunt for cosmic strings and dark matter
News
Environment
On board RRS Sir David Attenborough as it prepares for Antarctic trip
News
Health
People who microdose LSD sleep an extra 24 minutes the following night
News
Space
There鈥檚 a huge radioactive slab of volcanic granite buried on the moon
News
Society
English industrialist stole iron technique from Black metallurgists
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Life
Giving jaguars ‘food poisoning’ may stop them from killing livestock
News
Health
Early risers may be genetically less likely to get depression symptoms
News
Technology
Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light
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Humans
Ancient Scandinavians wrote encrypted messages in runes 1500 years ago
News
Life
Crows can understand probability like primates do
News
Health
Having an ‘overweight’ BMI may not lead to an earlier death
News
Life
Male spider mites rip off females鈥� skin to be first to mate with them
News
Technology
Solar panels could be about to get much better at capturing sunlight
News
Humans
Tooth analysis reveals ancient Iberian leader was female
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Analysis
Environment
The European Union’s new plan to curb deforestation is deeply flawed
Sustainability researchers have serious doubts about whether the EU鈥檚 new regulation will succeed in stopping deforestation
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Health
Social media brings benefits as well as risks to young people
News
Environment
Does oil-rich Saudi Arabia really want to mend its ways and go green?
News
Features
Health
Beyond Wegovy: Could the next wave of weight-loss drugs end obesity?
Wegovy and Ozempic have made headlines, but a new wave of more effective drugs like Mounjaro have the potential to end obesity altogether. How will they work and are they safe?
Features
Chemistry
One of chemistry’s most crucial concepts is in crisis – can we fix it?
Features
Life
Life鈥檚 hidden laws: The arcane rules of evolution and how they work
Features
Culture
Comment
The Bathysphere Book review: Amazing story of the first deep-sea dives
Brad Fox's vivid retelling of the voyages of the first deep-sea submersible is full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries 鈥� and unusual scientists
Culture
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends: Pod and Women on Nature
Culture
Comment
Dark Matter review: The amazing story of the microbial world inside us
Culture
Comment
Cerebrum review: An enigmatic slice of sci-fi horror
Culture
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Mathematics
The stunningly simple rule that will always get you out of a maze
You thought the maze looked fun, but now you can鈥檛 find your way out. Luckily, mathematics is here to help you escape, says Katie Steckles
Regulars
Tom Gauld on contact with aliens
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on how a science project might gain media attention
Regulars
Regulars
Could a cat nose function as a ‘highly efficient’ gas chromatograph?
Feedback decides more research is needed, both technical and legal, following a study into the unexpected potential of feline noses
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
If humans colonised Mars, how would they calculate time? (Part 2)
Last Word
Could you make a machine that 鈥渇lew鈥� like Thor鈥檚 hammer in the comics?
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