Health
Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork
Comment
This week's magazine
2 August 2025
Issue 3554
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Environment
See the world’s largest tidal bore on the Qiantang river in China
Known by locals as the Silver Dragon, this tidal bore can reach 4 metres tall and travel at speeds of up to 10 metres per second
News
Environment
Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row
News
Health
Intensely grieving a loved one could shorten a mourner’s life
News
Life
Remarkable set of tracks suggests different dinosaurs herded together
News
Space
A vast bubble around a dying star is too big to comprehend
News
Health
Negative social ties, like frenemies, could be ageing you
News
Humans
Neanderthals were probably maggot-munchers, not hyper-carnivores
News
Environment
Record marine heatwaves may signal a permanent shift in the oceans
News
Mathematics
DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathematical Olympiad
News
Health
Our brain’s mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep
News
Life
Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands
News
Space
Peculiar galaxy seems to contain surprisingly pristine stars
News
Health
Simple skincare routine could stop babies developing eczema
News
Life
The secret to what makes colours pop on dazzling songbirds
News
Humans
AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire
News
Life
Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species
News
Health
Walking 7000 steps a day seems to be enough to keep us healthy
News
Physics
Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting
News
Health
Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bowel syndrome cases
News
Life
Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us
News
Environment
Cleaner air has increased the number of city heatwaves
News
Health
The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19
News
Mind
The time you take an oral exam could affect whether you pass or fail
News
Life
Ancient 鈥榯error birds鈥� may have been no match for hungry giant caimans
News
Features
Health
How to harness your body clock for a longer, healthier life
Your circadian rhythm influences mood, metabolism and even how well you respond to medical treatment. Now we finally have the tools to harness it to help us live longer and feel better
Features
Physics
Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?
Features
Humans
Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful women who ever lived
Features
Culture
Life
Earth’s extraordinary deep biosphere is our next great frontier
A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to Karen G. Lloyd's new book Intraterrestrials
Culture
Environment
What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?
Culture
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends More Than Human at the Design Museum, London
Culture
Comment
Five years later, has sci-fi cult hit Devs aged well?
Culture
More
Mind
Why living in a volatile age may make our brains truly innovative
The unpredictability of our times isn't all bad, as it may help us think up some genuine new ideas, says Daniel Yon, author of A Trick of the Mind
Comment
Technology
How invisibility cloaks could make us disappear 鈥� at least from AI
Comment
Mathematics
This string art game will boost your mathematical imagination
Regulars
Tom Gauld on getting tied up in the data
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on escape velocity
Regulars
Regulars
Comment
Jewellery that monitors movement? No, we can’t anticipate any problems
Feedback foresees a dystopian future in which "smart jewellery" tracks the emotions and motions of its users
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why do plastic items stay wet for longer in the dishwasher?
Last Word
Why is the heart not in the centre of our body?
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
