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Owning our own data is the only way to stop enshittifcation
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This week's magazine
1 November 2025
Issue 3567
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Christmas Island’s red crabs undergo their annual migration
Every year, more than 100 million red crabs travel across Christmas Island in Australia, from the rainforest to the sea, in order to mate and spawn
News
Health
Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes
News
Life
We may finally know why birds sing at dawn
News
Life
Cloud microbes’ colours could help us detect life on other planets
News
Space
The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water
News
Health
‘Weaponised’ CAR T-cell therapy shows promise against solid tumours
News
Physics
Could gravity produce quantum entanglement if it鈥檚 not fully quantum?
News
Technology
Tweaked lithium-ion battery can be pierced without catching fire
News
Health
Eye implant and high-tech glasses restore vision lost to age
News
Health
Wegovy has heart health benefits even if weight loss is minimal
News
Physics
Ultracold atoms could test relativity in the quantum realm
News
Technology
Colour e-paper screen offers high-res video with low energy use
News
Environment
Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think
News
Environment
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
News
Chemistry
Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink
News
Health
Breastfeeding causes a surge in immune cells that could prevent cancer
News
Environment
Gene-edited pigs resistant to swine fever could boost animal welfare
News
Technology
Hand-powered device disinfects drinking water with nanoparticles
News
Technology
Teenager builds advanced robot hand entirely from Lego pieces
News
Health
Antidepressants vary widely in their physical side effects
News
Features
Physics
No space, no time, no particles: A radical vision of quantum reality
If we admit that quantum numbers are the true essence of reality 鈥� not particles, space or time 鈥� then a surprising and beautiful new vision of reality opens up to us
Features
Humans
How a surge in ancient plagues 5000 years ago shaped humanity
Features
Technology
‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
Features
Culture
Mind
Provocative book sets out to solve the hard problem of consciousness
Can sea slugs form abstract thoughts? Do we dare to see any "purpose" in evolution? Is the subjective just a complicated form of the objective? Nikolay Kukushkin's One Hand Clapping is a bold voyage around the mysteries of the human mind, finds Thomas Lewton
Culture
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends Never Let Me Go
Culture
Technology
Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow’s new book explores
Culture
Life
Nature documentary shot on Super 8 film is ravishing and unpredictable
Culture
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Environment
Tough choices lie ahead when it comes to climate change adaptation
COP's negotiations this month will focus on money for climate change adaptation. While more money is essential, even a big increase won't be enough on its own and we need to face up to this, warns Susannah Fisher
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Space
The end of US support for the CMB-S4 telescope is devastating
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Mind
Why assertiveness matters 鈥� and how to get better at it
Regulars
Tom Gauld on the Institute of Halloween Studies’ latest creation
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on an unexpected reading of the data
Regulars
Regulars
Comment
Minecraft fan may be most committed hobbyist out there
Feedback comes across a YouTuber's efforts to build a large language model in Minecraft and is impressed at the scale of it 鈥� even if it doesn't quite live up to its promise to blow your mind "in spectacular fashion"
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Which animals can recognise individual people?
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What would the surface of a neutron star look like? Part 2
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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