Technology
Artificial intelligence and climate change were 2023’s twin challenges
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This week's magazine
16 December 2023
Issue 3469
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family
Features
Environment
The unlikely extremophiles lurking in your kitchen
Features
Chemistry
How to use ‘flavour bridging’ to cook a bizarre but tasty holiday meal
Features
Humans
Test your brain with this fiendish set of museum-themed puzzles
Features
Space
Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun
Features
Environment
Science and technology’s newest words and what they tell us about 2023
Features
Physics
Make these four classic cocktails and become a fluid dynamics expert
Features
Life
Why are there no flightless bats? We’re closing in on an answer
Features
Earth
The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science
Features
Physics
Mystery of the quantum lentils: Are legumes exchanging secret signals?
Features
Life
Do animals dream and if so, what about?
Features
Life
Inside the milk bank creating infant formula for orphaned animals
Features
Technology
The future of AI: The 5 possible scenarios, from utopia to extinction
Features
Environment
Arctic cowboys: Meet the people wrangling icebergs for drinking water
Features
Table of contents
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Space
Weird cosmic clumping hints our understanding of the universe is wrong
A vast survey of more than 25 million galaxies confirms we still can鈥檛 be sure how much matter clusters together, suggesting something is awry with the standard model of cosmology
News
Health
Having children earlier in life is genetically linked to dying younger
News
Life
Unusual dark hedgehog from eastern China is new to science
News
Mathematics
Tiny balls fit best inside a sausage, physicists confirm
News
Life
Jumping spiders seem to recognise each other if they have met before
News
Life
Great Wall of China protected from erosion by coat of lichen and moss
News
Space
The moon may enter a new geological period thanks to human activity
News
Environment
Insects thrive on solar farms planted with native flowers
News
Health
Removing zombie-like cells may help treat multiple sclerosis
News
Mind
We now know why we find some jokes funny – thanks to Seinfeld
News
Space
Largest stream of stars ever found could teach us about dark matter
News
Physics
Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount
News
Mind
Gesturing as you talk may help you speak a new language like a local
News
Life
Honeyguide birds respond to special calls from human honey-hunters
News
Life
Sand-dwelling fungi discovered and named after Dune’s giant sandworms
News
Chemistry
AI can tell which chateau Bordeaux wines come from with 100% accuracy
News
Environment
Why 2023 was almost certainly the hottest year ever recorded
News
Physics
LK-99 superconductor mania swept the internet for a few weeks in 2023
News
Health
Covid-19 ’emergency’ ended in 2023 but the virus still lingers
News
Space
India made history with 2023’s low-budget Chandrayaan-3 moon landing
News
Mathematics
Mathematicians discovered the ultimate bathroom tile in 2023
News
Health
Wegovy and Ozempic made 2023 a revolutionary year for weight loss
News
Technology
2023 was the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream
News
Technology
The spy balloon saga of 2023 inflated US-China political tensions
News
Health
Cancer in young people is rising and 2023 saw a plan to figure out why
News
Space
Six of the most amazing space pictures from 2023
News
Analysis
Technology
A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams 鈥� Bankman-Fried and Altman
This was the year when the worlds of cryptocurrency and AI were both hit by drama, says Annalee Newitz
News
Environment
How 2023 saw the UK going backwards on climate issues
News
Space
Two books to write and the universe to decipher 鈥� 2024鈥檚 gonna be busy
News
Features
Humans
Test your brain with this fiendish set of museum-themed puzzles
Work your way through the exhibits of a mysterious museum, solving brain-twisting puzzles as you go. Then add your answers together to find the overall solution
Features
Life
Do animals dream and if so, what about?
Features
Physics
Mystery of the quantum lentils: Are legumes exchanging secret signals?
Features
Life
Why are there no flightless bats? We’re closing in on an answer
Features
Mind
15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family
Features
Environment
Arctic cowboys: Meet the people wrangling icebergs for drinking water
Features
Technology
The future of AI: The 5 possible scenarios, from utopia to extinction
Features
Life
Inside the milk bank creating infant formula for orphaned animals
Features
Space
Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun
Features
Physics
Make these four classic cocktails and become a fluid dynamics expert
Features
Environment
The unlikely extremophiles lurking in your kitchen
Features
Earth
The magnificent medieval map that made cartography into a science
Features
Environment
Science and technology’s newest words and what they tell us about 2023
Features
Chemistry
How to use ‘flavour bridging’ to cook a bizarre but tasty holiday meal
Features
