Space
SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet
News
This week's magazine
7 May 2016
Issue 3072
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?
News
Physics
How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector
Features
Humans
The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness
Features
Environment
Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales
Features
Earth
Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Technology
Australian entrepreneur struggles to prove he is Bitcoin’s daddy
Craig Wright has come forward offering cryptographic proof to claim the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin鈥檚 founder - but others are sceptical
News
Physics
Try your hand at programming IBM’s online quantum computer
News
Health
Ebola virus does a total shutdown to hide before a fresh strike
News
Space
Japanese satellite’s death spiral linked to software malfunction
News
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Australia to destroy alien carp by releasing herpes into rivers
News
Health
Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules
News
Physics
Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable
News
Health
Having an overactive immune system may prime you for depression
News
Earth
Kingdom-busting volcanoes linked to the rise of the Roman Empire
News
Physics
Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?
News
Earth
Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land
News
Physics
Unexplained plume over Mars could be caused by solar outburst
News
Health
Coma brain scans predict if a person will ever recover awareness
News
Health
Your choice of chocolate and contraceptive affect your gut bugs
News
Health
Sperm-binding beads could work as fertility aid or contraceptive
News
Humans
Map of the brain’s word filing system could help us read minds
News
Space
Never-before-seen moon spotted around dwarf planet Makemake
News
Physics
Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life
News
Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system
News
Environment
Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener
News
Life
Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet
News
Health
Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data
News
One Per Cent
News
Mind
From autism to Chinese, a headset to help you with your language
News
Technology
Nimble-fingered robot hands could help clean up nuclear waste
News
Last days of Earth: Timeline to the end of everything
News
Analysis
Space
SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet
The private space flight firm鈥檚 plan to send a lander to Mars in 2018 isn鈥檛 just ambitious 鈥� it鈥檚 our best chance yet of finding life on the planet
News
Health
Equally long lives for rich and poor? This dream is in retreat
News
Environment
An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers
News
Health
Muscular dystrophy is tragic, but patients aren’t always right
News
Features
Environment
Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales
The white whales of the Arctic are among the most vocal of all marine mammals 鈥� newborns even babble like human babies. Could this be their undoing?
Features
Earth
Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD
Features
Physics
How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector
Features
Humans
The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness
Features
Culture
Humans
Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present
From appreciating the machine-like qualities of the human body to resurrecting long-extinct creatures, two books about bones make colourful reading
Culture
Humans
Can two new books save the internet from its own success?
Culture
Humans
Follow the life of the last man on the moon
Culture
