This week's magazine
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News
Earth
Are Chinese consumers greener than westerners?
Young Chinese adults say they are more willing to pay extra for green products than people in other countries
News
Health
Arsenic double whammy for cancer
News
Health
Drug-resistant malaria spreads across Thailand
News
Space
Launch will reveal North Korean rocket’s purpose
News
Health
Illicit drug use on the rise in UK’s over-50s
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Fukushima birds may cope with radiation
News
Health
Censoring flu data could raise bioterror threat
News
Health
Babies are born dirty, with a gutful of bacteria
News
Physics
Dodge ban on quantum clones to trap Schrödinger’s cat
News
Physics
Supercomputer probes famous but messy particle split
News
Earth
Italy’s ‘triangle of death’ linked to premature ageing
News
Life
Blind hydra relies on light to kill prey
News
Environment
Chimp beds hint how early humans ditched tree-sleeping
News
Environment
Other primates share human taste for plant oestrogens
News
Health
Shining infrared light on cancer speeds diagnosis
News
Environment
Ants inoculate themselves by licking sick nest-mates
News
Space
Early asteroids blinged up by meteorite impacts
News
Health
Drug-smuggling nanoparticles target tumours
News
Space
Mysteriously dark Mars regions are made of glass
News
Wildfires roasted dinosaurs while flowers bloomed
News
Meet the amphibian with sexual kidneys
News
Health
X-ray hazard for people with obesity
News
Technology
Secrets of App Store revealed by artificial life forms
News
Technology
Crunch commuter data to track changing communities
News
Technology
Software reveals what makes a catchy movie line
News
Technology
Will we ever be able to buy a fair-trade smartphone?
News
Technology
Social media web snares ‘criminals’
News
Opinion
Technology
Unmasking hidden persuaders is a hard sell
Attempts to influence our purchasing decisions are becoming ever more high-tech. Can we be made to care?
Opinion
Technology
Train tracks of our tears put to good use
Opinion
Health
When the biological clock never ticks
Opinion
Earth
No need to wait for the clean air dividend
Opinion
Hold the painkillers, says ‘Darwinian’ paediatrician
Opinion
Health
We’re closing in on consciousness in the brain
Opinion
Features
Physics
New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis
It's chemistry's greatest challenge – inventing systems that turn water and sunshine efficiently into cheap, clean energy for all
Features
Health
Fat busters: Are diet pills an impossible dream?
Features
Humans
Pocket decider: How your phone shapes your choices
Features
Health
Ovary banks: Freezing the biological clock
Features
Culture
A slice of life in finely furled paper
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
The noble pursuit of ignorance
Culture
My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A personal and lively memoir
Culture
Can biotech solve world hunger?
Culture
Mysteries of modern physics
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Faith overcomes gravity
The organisation that pioneered pretty much everything, clever microbes, a saving you don't want, and more
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Write or wrong?
Last Word
What a gas
Last Word
Scraping the bottom
Last Word
Jersey of many colours
Last Word
Swirled, not stirred
Last Word