Health
Patchwork vaping regulation can show the way to a smoke-free world
News
This week's magazine
9 December 2023
Issue 3468
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Environment
COP28: These are the key clean energy targets the world must agree on
Momentum is building for an agreement at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to triple renewable energy capacity and double the rate of energy efficiency gains by 2030
News
Environment
COP28: Countries agree on how to fund climate 鈥榣oss and damage鈥�
News
Environment
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels hit another all-time high
News
Environment
COP28: How this year shattered nearly every modern climate record
News
Environment
We can trigger positive tipping points to cut carbon emissions faster
News
Environment
COP28: Energy transition may cut oil-producing states鈥� revenue by 60%
News
Health
Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles
News
Space
Passing star could fling Earth out past Pluto into the Oort cloud
News
Life
Shipwrecks are havens for wildlife in areas threatened by fishing
News
Technology
IBM鈥檚 ‘Condor’ quantum computer has more than 1000 qubits
News
Life
Marmosets swap brain cells with their siblings
News
Humans
Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time
News
Chemistry
DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step molecular movie
News
Mind
The music you should play at a party to ensure conversations flow
News
Health
Rare gene variants can change your height by up to 7 centimetres
News
Space
Six planets found orbiting a bright star 100 light years away
News
Technology
GPT-4 developer tool can be exploited for misuse with no easy fix
News
Life
Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields with their snouts
News
Technology
Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so efficiently
News
Life
Ancient life thrived after supercontinents trapped nutrient-rich soil
News
Space
Tiny star found harbouring a huge planet that shouldn鈥檛 exist
News
Physics
Physicists have worked out how to pour water as quietly as possible
News
Life
Unknown animals left birdlike footprints long before birds existed
News
Analysis
Environment
How will we actually know when we pass 1.5掳C of warming?
It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5掳C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definitions would only make this failure official 10 years later, which could waste time in bringing temperatures back down
News
Humans
The US needs to do more to preserve its ancient sites
News
Physics
Why I’ve been somewhat obsessed with space-time this year
News
Features
Health
How bad is vaping for your health? We鈥檙e finally getting answers
As more of us take up vaping and concerns rise about the long-term effects, we now have enough data to get a grip on the health impact 鈥� and how it compares to smoking
Features
Society
Why reports that Western civilisation will soon collapse are premature
Features
Technology
The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world
Features
Culture
Comment
The best science-inflected music of 2023
From Ashnikko to Hannah Diamond, our resident experts Bethan Ackerley and Tim Boddy round up the best music albums of 2023 - if science is your thing
Culture
Comment
Erland Cooper interview: The composer who melts hearts with icy music
Culture
Comment
The best 3 board games of 2023 鈥� if you love science
Culture
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Life
Why you don’t need to bother raking up dead leaves from your lawn
When the leaves start falling, we can spend hours removing them from our lawns. But leaving them where they are is often better for the grass, says James Wong
Regulars
Tom Gauld on holiday planning
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on academic conversations
Regulars
Regulars
Pretend engine noises make electric cars more fun
Feedback ponders that old philosophical question, what is reality, after discovering that Toyota has built an electric car with a fake transmission
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
As sound dissipates, what happens to this energy?
Last Word
Do winged animals ever suffer comparable mishaps to aircraft? Part two
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
