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What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change
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This week's magazine
9 November 2024
Issue 3516
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Physics
There may be a cosmic speed limit on how fast anything can grow
Alan Turing's theories about computation seem to have a startling consequence, placing hard limits on how fast or slow any physical process in the universe can grow
News
Environment
COP29: Clashes over cash are set to dominate the climate conference
News
Environment
Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate
News
Technology
One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI
News
Health
Michelangelo’s ‘The Flood’ seems to depict a woman with breast cancer
News
Health
Flu viruses have evolved proteins that let them break through mucus
News
Physics
We’ve seen particles that are massless only when moving one direction
News
Physics
Cloud-inspired material can bend light around corners
News
Technology
AI helps driverless cars predict how unseen pedestrians may move
News
Humans
A bizarre skeleton from a Roman grave has bones from eight people
News
Technology
Spies can eavesdrop on phone calls by sensing vibrations with radar
News
Health
War-era sugar rationing boosted health of UK people conceived in 1940s
News
Environment
Clean energy rollout means China鈥檚 emissions may have peaked
News
Mathematics
Chimpanzees will never randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare
News
Health
Cancer atlas reveals how tumours evolve inside the body
News
Physics
Quantum ‘Schr枚dinger’s cat’ survives for a stunning 23 minutes
News
Life
Oldest tadpole fossil known to science dates back 161 million years
News
Space
Astronauts could hitch a ride on asteroids to get to Venus or Mars
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Health
One course of antibiotics can change your gut microbiome for years
News
Physics
Quantum batteries could give off more energy than they store
News
Environment
The Amazon is teetering on the edge of a climate tipping point
News
Features
Humans
Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?
Our ancestors probably used a wide range of plant-based tools that have since been lost to history. Now we're finally getting a glimpse of this Botanic Age
Features
Health
The complete guide to cooking oils and how they affect your health
Features
Space
If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?
Features
Culture
Physics
What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose
The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss salutes Roger Penrose's groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics while challenging the idea that a genius should be exempt from ordinary obligations
Culture
Environment
Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book
Culture
Life
快猫短视频 recommends the Pier 26 Science Playground
Culture
Society
In satire Rumours, diplomatic communiques collide with the end times
Culture
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Health
Conspiracy theorists are turning their attention back to HPV vaccines
We are living in a vaccine-hesitant moment, with conspiracy theories thriving on social media. We need to push back, says Simon Williams
Comment
Environment
Could seaweed be the ultimate carbon capture solution?
Comment
Mind
How can I help a friend who is relentlessly negative about life?
Regulars
Tom Gauld on getting things to work – or not
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on (another) new method for teaching mathematics
Regulars
Regulars
An unusual method for avoiding a gap in your r茅sum茅
Social networking can keep friends and acquaintances in touch with your career, but Feedback isn't sure how to feel about a cryptocurrency mogul's latest job update
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
If human brains could be made larger, how much smarter could we be?
Last Word
How fast am I moving and in which direction? Part 2
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
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