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How a midlife tune-up could help prepare you for a healthy old age
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This week's magazine
14 March 2026
Issue 3586
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Alzheimer鈥檚 may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut
The Alzheimer鈥檚 field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many years before symptoms start. This may mean we have to totally rethink how we approach preventing and treating the condition
News
Humans
The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
News
Environment
Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
News
Environment
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
News
Environment
Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought
News
Mind
Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months
News
Space
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
News
Life
The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
News
Technology
The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
News
Technology
How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
News
Life
‘Singing’ dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
News
Health
Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations
News
Space
NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time
News
Chemistry
M枚bius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape
News
Life
Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
News
Life
Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
News
Health
Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction
News
Technology
First drone passengers may be combat casualties and criminals
News
Technology
Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors
News
Life
Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour
News
Features
Health
Frailty sets in far earlier than you鈥檇 expect, but you can reverse it
We鈥檙e learning that frailty can quietly arrive decades before old age, with some people in their 30s or 40s unknowingly in a pre-frail state. There are surprising ways to stay strong 鈥� and it鈥檚 not all about weight training
Features
Humans
How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history
Features
Space
Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an ‘impossible’ particle detector
Features
Culture
Space
Maggie Aderin’s dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong
Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the 快猫短视频 podcast, as her memoir Starchild comes out
Culture
Comment
快猫短视频 recommends sci-fi novel Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Culture
Health
Why are we so obsessed with protein? A new book looks for answers
Culture
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Technology
Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too
Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experiment in vibe coding, I have realised that both camps are wrong, says Jacob Aron
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Health
Can magnesium supplements improve sleep, energy and concentration?
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Physics
Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?
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Tom Gauld on a Foundation for Astonishingly Extravagant Gestures
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on a resistant bacterial strain
Regulars
Regulars
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As pure as driven snow? Not if you’re a ‘CleanTok’ influencer
Feedback has discovered a subgenre of social media dedicated to cleaning, and isn't impressed by its proponents' latest object of ire
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why are humans able to find aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects?
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Do babies understand each other with their babbling?
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Is it better to dry towels hung up portrait or landscape? part 2
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What is the optimal amount of water to clean a glass jar? part 2
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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