This week's magazine
20 April 2024
Issue 3487
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Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Environment
Our plans to tackle climate change with carbon storage don’t add up
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5掳C of warming assumes we can store vast amounts of carbon dioxide underground, but a new analysis reveals that achieving this is extremely unlikely
Environment
Arctic permafrost is now a net source of major greenhouse gases
Technology
Watch a swarm of cyborg cockroaches controlled by computers
Health
Parkinson’s disease progression slowed by antibody infusions
Space
A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
Life
Are panda sex lives being sabotaged by the wrong gut microbes?
Earth
Deadly upwellings of cold water pose threat to migratory sharks
Physics
Bizarre crystal made only of electrons revealed in astonishing detail
Technology
Water purifier is powered by static electricity from your body
Health
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal best treatment
Life
鈥楶eaceful鈥 male bonobos may actually be more aggressive than chimps
Health
Post-surgery infections may mainly be caused by skin bacteria
Physics
How Peter Higgs revealed the forces that hold the universe together
Life
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
Technology
Chatbots can persuade conspiracy theorists their view might be wrong
Humans
Australia鈥檚 Indigenous people were making pottery over 2000 years ago
Space
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
Health
Treating gum disease may ward off an irregular heartbeat
Life
Fractal pattern identified at molecular scale in nature for first time
Life
Northern white rhino could be saved from extinction using frozen skin
Health
Prosthetic hands are easier to control using unrelated muscles
Analysis
Health
Why we need to change the way we think about exhaustion
One in five adults worldwide is living with fatigue. The general advice is to 鈥渄o more鈥 - but this isn鈥檛 the only solution to our exhaustion epidemic, says Amy Arthur
Humans
Untangling the enigmatic origins of the human family鈥檚 newest species
Features
Health
A new understanding of tinnitus and deafness could help reverse both
Investigations of the paradoxical link between tinnitus and hearing loss have revealed a hidden form of deafness, paving the way to possible new treatments
Space
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
Society
The man reinventing economics with chaos theory and complexity science
Culture
Comment
A Body Made of Glass review: A very personal history of hypochondria
Millions of people experience symptoms many doctors dismiss as imaginary, but why? Caroline Crampton's moving first-person account is very revealing
Comment
May Contain Lies review: How to cut to the truth and think smarter
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends space-heist action in For All Mankind
Comment
Fallout review: This jaunty trip to the apocalypse is lots of fun
More
Space
How to see the Lyrid meteor shower and when is the peak?
Caused by debris from a comet thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks this year on 22 April and is best viewed from the northern hemisphere, says Abigail Beall
Tom Gauld on new discoveries in the lab
Twisteddoodles on a data fashion show
Regulars
Does the future of boxing lie in humans versus robots? Possibly
Feedback pores over new research that suggests "robot-human boxing" would reduce brain injuries by reducing the number of live opponents involved