Technology
What game should artificial intelligence take on next?
Opinion
This week's magazine
19 March 2016
Issue 3065
Editor's picks
Environment
The enigmatic whale we can hear 鈥� but have never seen
Features
Environment
Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?
Features
Environment
How are baby eels made? We still don’t know
Features
Space
Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe
Features
Environment
Animal superpowers: How we’re homing in on their magnetic satnav
Features
Physics
‘Glueballs’ of pure force must exist 鈥� will we ever find them?
Features
Humans
What makes you conscious 鈥� and where is it in your brain?
Features
Space
The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system 鈥� why can’t we see it?
Features
Life
Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life
Features
Space
How we’ll catch a huge black hole on camera
Features
Physics
Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt
Features
Table of contents
News
Health
Florida one step closer to genetically modified mosquito trial
The US Food and Drug Administration has provisionally ruled that using modified mosquitos to cut the wider population is not expected to have adverse effects
News
Earth
Sea-level rise may displace 13 million people in the US by 2100
News
Earth
February 2016’s temperature spike is yet another record
News
Health
‘Shaken baby’ expert witness found guilty of misleading courts
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Fermat’s last theorem mathematician Andrew Wiles wins Abel prize
News
Health
Drug may have hit wrong brain target in French clinical trial
News
Health
Could three gun laws cut US firearm deaths by 90 per cent?
News
Health
Cancer reversed in frogs by hacking cells’ electricity with light
News
Humans
How victory for Google鈥檚 Go AI is stoking fear in South Korea
News
Earth
Wildlife heaven or nuclear hell: Chernobyl鈥檚 future up for grabs
News
Health
Evolution acting on older dads is protecting our genetic health
News
Life
Skull of mini T. rex shows it gained intelligence before size
News
Mathematics
Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in ‘random’ prime numbers
News
Earth
Take a detour to improve traffic for everyone else
News
Earth
Mysterious fairy circles now discovered in Australia’s desert
News
Humans
Graphene origami produced by world’s thinnest folds
News
Earth
Bacteria found to eat PET plastics could help do the recycling
News
Health
Newborn neurons observed in a live brain for first time
News
Physics
Puzzle game launched to help program quantum computers
News
Humans
Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history
News
Health
Gene test can tell people with breast cancer if they need chemo
News
Life
Dracula orchid flowers mimic mushrooms to attract flies
News
Health
MRSA superbug鈥檚 resistance to antibiotics is broken
News
Technology
Machines are teaching themselves to grapple with the real world
News
Humans
Humans strike back: How Lee Sedol won a game against AlphaGo
News
Environment
One Per Cent
News
Mind
Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants
News
Opinion
Humans
Politicians need to unleash science, not muzzle unwelcome truths
An anti-lobbying measure that could weaken the influence of research on UK policy would undermine progress on society's big challenges, warns Neil Adger
Opinion
Earth
Bail out the oceans to stop sea level rise? Let’s talk about it
Opinion
Earth
Record warming is terrifying but long-term trend is even worse
Opinion
Humans
I document life and death on America’s migrant trail
Opinion
Features
Space
How we’ll catch a huge black hole on camera
We've never seen a black hole because they're so... black. Now there's a plan to picture the monster at our galaxy鈥檚 heart 鈥� with a telescope the size of Earth
Features
Life
Ultimate family tree: Tracing the oldest ancestor of all life
Features
Space
The Oort cloud surrounds our solar system 鈥� why can’t we see it?
Features
Physics
‘Glueballs’ of pure force must exist 鈥� will we ever find them?
Features
Humans
What makes you conscious 鈥� and where is it in your brain?
Features
Environment
Animal superpowers: How we’re homing in on their magnetic satnav
Features
Space
Listening for gravitational waves from the birth of the universe
Features
Environment
The enigmatic whale we can hear 鈥� but have never seen
Features
Environment
How are baby eels made? We still don’t know
Features
Environment
Just how are we related to our chimp cousins?
Features
Physics
Mathematicians play whack-a-mole in the endless infinity hunt
Features
Culture
Physics
Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics 鈥� but only so far
Bananaworld and two other books on theoretical physics show that intuition and the smart metaphors it spawns can never replace serious maths
Culture
Environment
A beguiling natural history of North America’s great forests
Culture
Humans
How two dead power stations fuel the art of catastrophe
Culture
Regulars
Life
Feedback: Blue miracle tonic is high on pH, low on evidence
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
Quantum science
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Mississippi melter
Last Word
Coloured dots
Last Word
Last show on Earth
Last Word
Lunar attraction
Last Word
Beach bun
Last Word
