Life
Breakthrough in synthetic biology is far from ‘playing God’
Opinion
This week's magazine
2 April 2016
Issue 3067
Editor's picks
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Space
Japanese Hitomi satellite falls silent after taking a tumble
A tweet from the US Joint Space Operations Center, which tracks space debris, reported five pieces of junk around the satellite after it was due to come online
News
Technology
Security missed Brussels bombs 鈥� but could sensors spot them?
News
Space
Gecko Gripper blasts off to help design space-crawling robots
News
Earth
Unexpected Antarctic melt could trigger 2-metre sea level rise
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Health
NHS England backtracks from rolling out HIV-prevention drug
News
Health
Zika arrived in the Americas two years earlier than thought
News
Life
Artificial cell designed in lab reveals genes essential to life
News
Life
Interstellar cloud could have wiped out the dinosaurs
News
Space
Asteroid barrage may have birthed a short-lived ocean on Mars
News
Health
鈥楩earless鈥� twins reveal how our bodies affect our emotions
News
Environment
Cute prairie dogs are serial killers savaging ground squirrels
News
Health
Brain-shocking therapy may work by boosting calcium in the brain
News
Earth
Pilot plant to turn CO2 into house parts and paving stones
News
Physics
New maths proof shows how to stack oranges in 24 dimensions
News
Space
Ceres surprises with water ice and colourful bright spots
News
Environment
Common UK migrating birds are arriving earlier or leaving later
News
Humans
The evolution of the nose: why is the human hooter so big?
News
Humans
Brains of elderly people who exercise look 10 years younger
News
Physics
Ghostly galaxies are light on stars but heavy on dark matter
News
Space
Moon鈥檚 lack of water down to ancient shift in its spin axis
News
Environment
Explosive road rage-like anger linked to parasite spread by cats
News
Earth
Woodpeckers carry wood-eating fungi that may help them dig holes
News
Humans
Lead ink from scrolls may unlock library destroyed by Vesuvius
News
Technology
First games for Oculus Rift reveal your new virtual playground
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Inside the shape-shifting VR factory of manufacturing’s future
News
Opinion
Life
Small is beautiful: Why a synthetic minimal genome is a big deal
Engineering a bacterium that thrives with the smallest feasible string of genes is no vanity project and could have important uses, says Richard Kitney
Opinion
Earth
Should the UK pull plug on Hinkley Point nuclear power station?
Opinion
Humans
Obama wants scientific collaboration to boost US-Cuba relations
Opinion
Environment
If we want to breathe clean air, we need to fight for it
Opinion
Technology
I used robots to help save drowning refugees off the Greek coast
Opinion
Features
Physics
Our galaxy’s impossible collision could break gravity
The ballistics of galactic shrapnel show that the Milky Way has already crashed into its giant neighbour, Andromeda 鈥� but if that's right, physics is wrong
Features
Health
Stuttering isn’t only psychological 鈥� and a cure might be coming
Features
Technology
To make computers better, let them get sloppy
Features
Environment
Human versus pig: Can we outwit the hog hordes?
Features
Culture
Regulars
Health
Feedback: Poppers burn a hole in the UK’s blanket drugs ban
Feedback聽is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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