This week's magazine
2 November 2024
Issue 3515
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Could when you eat be as important as what you eat?
Health
Are fermented foods like kimchi really that good for your gut?
Health
The surprising truth about the health benefits of snacking
Health
Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fits-all diet advice?
Health
The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health impacts
Health
Can we really balance our hormones by eating certain foods?
Health
Do certain foods suppress inflammation and help you live longer?
Mind
How psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality
Table of contents
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Environment
Earth is now gaining less heat than it has for several years
The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections, but a fall in how much heat Earth is gaining makes this less likely
Mind
Meditation seems to improve our empathy for strangers
Life
Weird microbes could help rewrite the origin of multicellular life
Health
Electric skin patch could keep wounds free of infection
Space
Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time
Humans
Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub
Environment
Carbon emissions are now growing faster than before the pandemic
Technology
AI models fall for the same scams that we do
Technology
Battery-like device made from water and clay could be used on Mars
Humans
DNA helps match ‘Well Man’ skeleton to 800-year-old Norwegian saga
Health
This surprisingly creative trick helps children eat more fruit and veg
Life
Your gut bacteria are at war – and force their enemies to switch sides
Environment
Nuclear waste tanker pilots futuristic aluminium sail
Earth
Some wildfires are growing twice as fast as they did two decades ago
Space
A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system
Life
Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run
Life
Morphing red blood cells help bats hibernate – and we could do it too
Technology
Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
Humans
Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench
Environment
The mystery of the missing La Niña continues – and we don’t know why
Life
Hornets can hold their alcohol like no other animal on Earth
Mathematics
Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits
Health
Neuroscientist finds her brain shrinks while taking birth control
Features
Health
Could when you eat be as important as what you eat?
Peaks in appetite and metabolism driven by our body's inbuilt clocks mean that eating at the wrong time can have consequences for our health and waistline
Health
Can we really balance our hormones by eating certain foods?
Health
The surprising truth about the health benefits of snacking
Health
The surprisingly simple supernutrient with far-reaching health impacts
Health
Do certain foods suppress inflammation and help you live longer?
Health
Is personalised nutrition better than one-size-fits-all diet advice?
Health
Are fermented foods like kimchi really that good for your gut?
Mind
How psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality
Culture
Life
Tense docu-thriller exposes the cruelties of commercial whale trade
Orca – Black & White Gold digs deep into the dirty waters surrounding the killer whale trade and captures a daring rescue mission
Earth
Forget Hollywood, science has real plans to defend us from asteroids
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ recommends detective dramedy Ludwig
Humans
Chilling news adds fresh meaning to 2018 Arctic horror drama
More
Technology
Are we really ready for genuine communication with animals through AI?
Thanks to artificial intelligence, understanding animals may be closer than we think. But we may not like what they are going to tell us, says RSPCA chief executive Chris Sherwood
Technology
How a ride in a friendly Waymo saw me fall for robotaxis
Health
The science of exercise: Which activity burns the most calories?
Tom Gauld on a workplace mix-up
Twisteddoodles on what to do with a bad result
Regulars
Technology
Mountaineering astronauts and bad spelling? It’s advertising’s future
Feedback digs into a baffling ad for a mobile game and identifies a new and devilish way to advertise a product online: make it as confusing as possible to encourage people to click (it worked on Feedback)