Environment
Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice
News
This week's magazine
28 September 2024
Issue 3510
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Environment
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice thicker, offering a possible way to preserve sea ice throughout the summer
News
Technology
Tiny nuclear-powered battery could work for decades in space or at sea
News
Space
Black hole鈥檚 jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
News
Environment
Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel
News
Health
Most effective migraine drugs revealed by review of trial data
News
Environment
Antarctica鈥檚 ‘doomsday’ glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
News
Technology
Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space
News
Health
Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of covid-19 outbreak
News
Physics
Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered
News
Space
Bacteria on the space station are evolving for life in space
News
Technology
鈥楽hazam for whales鈥� uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench
News
Technology
An AI can beat CAPTCHA tests 100 per cent of the time
News
Earth
Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn
News
Life
Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade
News
Health
Antibiotic resistance forecast to kill 39 million people by 2050
News
Life
Air jacket helps ‘scuba-diving’ lizards stay underwater for longer
News
Physics
Our reality seems to be compatible with a quantum multiverse
News
Environment
People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent
News
Chemistry
How to turn most of the CO2 an astronaut exhales into fresh oxygen
News
Technology
Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts
News
Health
The complicated role loneliness plays in 26 common health conditions
News
Life
Some flowers may have evolved long stems to be better 鈥榮een鈥� by bats
News
Space
Dark matter may allow giant black holes to form in the early universe
News
Features
Health
The brain has its own microbiome. Here’s what it means for your health
Neuroscientists have been surprised to discover that the human brain is teeming with microbes, and we are beginning to suspect they could play a role in neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's
Features
Humans
The fascinating truth about why common sense isn’t really that common
Features
Space
The astrophysicist who may be about to discover how the universe began
Features
Culture
Environment
How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis
There can be no victory in a war against nature, says Sunil Amrith in The Burning Earth, a must-read history of our environmental crisis
Culture
Technology
Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073
Culture
Society
快猫短视频 recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Third Realm
Culture
Life
Richard Powers’s new novel is a beautiful love letter to our oceans
Culture
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Mathematics
If we reassessed what maths is, perhaps it wouldn’t make us so anxious
Fear of maths has been around for at least a century. Here are some ways to overcome it, says Sarah Hart, professor emerita of mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London
Comment
Environment
How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature
Comment
Chemistry
The chemistry behind making a perfect caramel sauce
Regulars
Tom Gauld on a party for time travellers
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on the anatomy of a task
Regulars
Regulars
Why does hair pulling hurt? Blame your myelinated nociceptors
Feedback explores the painstaking science of hair-pulling, and learns that experts have discovered that its effects can range from "hot-burning" to "aching"
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why does the return journey seem much shorter than the outward leg?
Last Word
Can a trapped mouse really find its way back from a mile away?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
