Health
Food that is healthy for you can still be catastrophic for the planet
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This week's magazine
26 October 2024
Issue 3514
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Mind
We’re starting to understand what being bullied does to the brain
Being bullied when young seems to alter your brain structure for years to come - with different changes seen in males and females
News
Life
De-extinction company claims it has nearly complete thylacine genome
News
Life
Motor made from bacteria parts is one of the smallest ever built
News
Society
What the US election will mean for AI, climate action and abortion
News
Environment
Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild
News
Technology
Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe
News
Earth
Folklore uncovers a tsunami that rocked Hawaii hundreds of years ago
News
Life
Invasive snake is surviving in Britain by living in attics and walls
News
Physics
The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern
News
Health
Risk of peanut allergies from air on planes has been overblown
News
Life
Puppies as young as 6 weeks old know to ask people for help
News
Technology
6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G
News
Environment
Warmer winters mean world鈥檚 highest places may store less carbon
News
Physics
Quantum theory is challenging long-standing ideas about entropy
News
Life
Dolphins breathe in microplastics and it could be damaging their lungs
News
Space
First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope’s map of the universe
News
Life
Male mice flee to female mice to de-escalate fights
News
Space
The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest 鈥� now we know why
News
Technology
Teaching computers a new way to count could make numbers more accurate
News
BrainTwister #43: Consecutive sums
News
Features
Physics
Solving Stephen Hawking鈥檚 black hole paradox has raised new mysteries
Physicists finally know whether black holes destroy the information contained in infalling matter. The problem is that the answer hasn鈥檛 lit the way to a new understanding of space-time
Features
Health
Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions
Features
Environment
Energy expert Vaclav Smil on how to feed the world without trashing it
Features
Culture
Technology
Musical AI harmonises with your voice in a transcendent new exhibition
What happens if AI is trained to write choral music by feeding it a specially created vocal dataset? Moving new exhibition The Call tackles some thorny questions about AI and creativity 鈥� and stirs the soul with music
Culture
Physics
Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science
Culture
Life
快猫短视频 recommends documentary Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Culture
Environment
Tim Winton’s post-apocalyptic new novel is terrifying and brilliant
Culture
More
Mind
How creativity can be found in looking sideways at your goal
When award-winning author Will Eaves couldn't write his next novel, he discovered that a different approach to creativity offered some answers
Comment
Environment
Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong
Comment
Life
Why a potted plant isn’t the easiest option for would-be gardeners
Regulars
Tom Gauld on the realities of being an evil scientist
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on a zombie invasion
Regulars
Regulars
Missed out on seeing the northern lights? Meta has you covered
Feedback was feeling left out after failing to see the recent aurora borealis, but was delighted to find Meta providing an AI-generated version. Definitely absolutely just as good as the real thing
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Is there evidence disproving the notion we are part of a simulation?
Last Word
How do we know that gravity has the same speed as light?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
