This week's magazine
20 September 2025
Issue 3561
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
How to nurture the right mindset for living to 100
Health
The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life
Health
The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest
Health
The exercises you need to do to reach 100 in great shape
Health
What’s the secret to living well beyond the average life expectancy?
Health
Why caring for your microbiome is crucial if you want to live to 100
Physics
What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector
Table of contents
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Technology
Quantum computer made with silicon chips looks like a time machine
This is the first quantum computer fully built using standard silicon chip manufacturing techniques – a step towards the mass production of quantum computers
Health
Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion in first year alone
Space
Jupiter is smaller and more squashed than we thought
Humans
Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain slopes
Humans
30,000-year-old toolkit shows what ancient hunter carried in a pouch
Space
Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking’s black hole theorem
Space
NASA hasn’t found life on Mars yet – but signs are promising
Health
Resistance training may strengthen your gut microbiome
Technology
DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded
Health
Tiny structure in the brain could be driving how much you eat
Space
A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why
Humans
We evolved to match local micronutrient levels, which may be a problem
Humans
Britain’s economy thrived after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire
Life
‘Great Migration’ involves far fewer wildebeest than we had thought
Health
Antibody cocktail could work as a universal flu treatment
Life
Iridescent mammals are much more common than we thought
Environment
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change
Space
Exoplanet 40 light years from Earth may have right conditions for life
Humans
Does this sculpted head show an ancient hunter-gatherer’s hairstyle?
Features
Health
The exercises you need to do to reach 100 in great shape
To be truly fit in older age, you need to work on specific aspects of your fitness – and research shows that it’s never too late to reap the benefits
Health
The science revealing how the right diet can add a decade to your life
Health
The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest
Health
Why caring for your microbiome is crucial if you want to live to 100
Health
What’s the secret to living well beyond the average life expectancy?
Health
How to nurture the right mindset for living to 100
Physics
What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector
Culture
Mind
Steven Pinker’s new book shows how he’s become a contradictory figure
Steven Pinker’s new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows makes a compelling case for common knowledge. Shame the politics muddies the waters
Life
¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ recommends David Attenborough’s Parenthood
Technology
No, AI isn’t going to kill us all, despite what this new book says
Environment
Ian McEwan’s new novel weaves climate change into literary mystery
More
Environment
A radical idea to fix plastics recycling
Making all shampoo or detergent bottles look the same isn't anti-capitalist, and it's the only way to make a truly circular economy for plastics, says Saabira Chaudhuri
Humans
Where’s my jetpack got to? And other sci-fi tech queries
Health
Three simple rules for a great post-workout meal
Tom Gauld on noisy neighbours
Twisteddoodles on emails vs meetings
Regulars
Comment
The real reason our weather is going to the dogs
Feedback was amazed to hear that dog ownership could cause a hurricane across the other side of the world. Or are we barking up the wrong tree?