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