Health
The truth about the new class of Alzheimer鈥檚 drugs
News
This week's magazine
3 August 2024
Issue 3502
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Weeding out Olympic doping cheats won’t actually end inequity in sport
News
Humans
What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins
Features
Space
Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe
Features
Technology
Will implants that meld minds with machines enhance human abilities?
Features
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Life
Oldest rocks on Earth may contain strange and ancient life forms
Fossils in rocks that are 3.8 billion years old have puzzled biologists as they look nothing like modern cells, but now it seems they may be an ancient precursor life form that was unable to control its structure
News
Space
Mars rover found a rock with possible signs of ancient life
News
Technology
DeepMind AI gets silver medal at International Mathematical Olympiad
News
Health
How does the Olympics test for doping and is it good enough?
News
Physics
We may finally know what caused the biggest cosmic explosion ever seen
News
Environment
Biodegradable microplastics may actually be worse for soil and plants
News
Humans
Bronze Age hoards hint that market economies arose surprisingly early
News
Technology
Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press
News
Chemistry
Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 鈥� the heaviest ever
News
Technology
AI can predict tipping points for systems from forests to power grids
News
Health
How diseases like smallpox survived long ocean voyages
News
Health
Why many studies wrongly claim it鈥檚 healthy to drink a little alcohol
News
Life
Komodo dragons have teeth capped with a layer of iron
News
Environment
Trees have an extra climate benefit thanks to methane-eating microbes
News
Humans
Neanderthal cooking skills put to the test with birds and stone tools
News
Space
Space travel may make muscles age extremely quickly
News
Space
Moon bases will need to be 3 metres underground to avoid radiation
News
Features
Humans
What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary origins
From Neanderthals to Australopithecus and Paranthropus, the more we鈥檝e learned about ancient hominins, the harder it has become to define what a human is
Features
Space
Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe
Features
Technology
Will implants that meld minds with machines enhance human abilities?
Features
Culture
Health
Discover RNA’s irresistible ascent from humble molecule to CRISPR star
The amazing rise of RNA to delivering precise gene editing and its potential to unlock life's biggest secrets is told in The Catalyst by Nobel prizewinner Thomas Cech, who was a big part of the story
Culture
Society
快猫短视频 recommends: Rutger Bregman’s Humankind
Culture
Life
The inside story of heroic efforts to save three bird species
Culture
Physics
Time travel sci-fi novel is a rip-roaringly good thought experiment
Culture
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Environment
Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible
The Arctic Ocean I trekked across 21 years ago is melting fast, becoming a potential shipping super-highway. That should worry us all, says the explorer and ocean conservationist
Comment
Society
Voters everywhere back green policies. Politicians should take note
Comment
Space
Get ready to watch the dazzling Perseid meteor shower in August
Regulars
Tom Gauld ponders how to communicate with extraterrestrials
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on a new way to come up with research ideas
Regulars
Regulars
Can we live on worms alone? Probably not, find scientists
Feedback digs into a study on whether earthworms might provide the nutritional answer in the case of a global famine, and discovers a can of worms
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
How do you check the accuracy of an atomic clock?
Last Word
Why do some flowers close up at night but others stay open?
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