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This week's magazine
11 January 2025
Issue 3525
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Space
See Saturn emerge from behind our moon in game of celestial peek-a-boo
On 4 January there was a lunar occultation of Saturn, when the moon blocks our view of the planet
News
Technology
AI helps radiologists spot breast cancer in real-world tests
News
Technology
AI chatbots fail to diagnose patients by talking with them
News
Life
Newly identified scorpion species 鈥榮pits鈥� venom to defend itself
News
Environment
Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses surprise pollution threat
News
Health
Why US obesity rates fell for the first time in decades
News
Life
Giant tracks show how dinosaurs roamed the UK millions of years ago
News
Technology
AI-powered avatars can gesture naturally as they speak
News
Technology
Is Google’s approach to error-free quantum computers already outdated?
News
Space
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kiss
News
Technology
AI uses throat vibrations to work out what someone is trying to say
News
Environment
Global treaty is failing to curb ultra-potent greenhouse gas emissions
News
Technology
Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze
News
Physics
Physicists bend atoms in 鈥榠mpossible鈥� experiment
News
Humans
People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago
News
Mathematics
Mathematicians found 鈥� and fixed 鈥� an error in a 60-year-old proof
News
Environment
Snow days set to disappear across much of the US
News
Mind
Blinking may give your brain a micro break during cognitive tasks
News
Humans
Climate change may have killed ancient ‘hobbit’ hominins
News
Life
Dolphins may use their teeth to hear underwater
News
Technology
Crystal-based cooling could make fridges more sustainable
News
Health
Ozempic and Wegovy have heart health benefits beyond just weight loss
News
Humans
Ancient checked dress may be Europe’s oldest two-colour garment
News
Features
Physics
How a quantum innovation may quash the idea of the multiverse
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics invokes alternative realities to keep everything in balance. Has solving a century-old paradox now undermined their existence?
Features
Environment
We thought we knew emperor penguins 鈥� robots are proving us wrong
Features
Mind
The neuroscientist using music to help treat Alzheimer’s and more
Features
Culture
Life
Memoir offers new insights into the life of naturalist Gerald Durrell
In the centenary of naturalist Gerald Durrell鈥檚 birth, a new memoir adds rich new layers to what we know about the man
Culture
Life
Nerve-racking tale of reviving wild cocoa to make amazing chocolate
Culture
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends climate change play Kyoto
Culture
Comment
Oracles, Omens and Answers is a revealing gaze at prediction’s past
Culture
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Technology
Children are being overlooked in conversations about AI
We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end of its development, says Mhairi Aitken
Comment
Humans
Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do
Comment
Life
Can you use banana peels to fertilise your plants?
Regulars
Tom Gauld’s archaeological Venn diagram
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on being a little less food-motivated
Regulars
Regulars
Comment
A first nomination for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism award
Feedback has found a contender for the 2025 Reverse Nominative Determinism gong: the scientific journal Intelligence
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
If Earth was flat, how would gravity manifest?
Last Word
Why are so many Scottish animals red-headed, from squirrels to people?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
