Health
Can polio success help India improve its public health?
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This week's magazine
6 August 2016
Issue 3085
Editor's picks
Health
‘Superfood’ doesn’t mean anything, so let’s stop using it
News
Health
Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods
Features
Humans
Does science undermine human rights?
Features
Environment
Enter an ecologist’s playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods
Features
Space
Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?
Features
Health
Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Technology
Now you see me: true invisibility cloak impossible to build
New calculations say an invisibility cloak would only work for a tiny sliver of light, and would make all other wavelengths grow brighter
News
Space
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus
News
Physics
Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof
News
Health
Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14
News
Health
Google firm hopes to control organs with electrical signals
News
Life
60 Seconds
News
Earth
African ibis and South American coati among 37 on EU鈥檚 kill list
News
Health
High Court backs campaign to fund preventative HIV drug on NHS
News
Health
Child dies in anthrax outbreak linked to thawed reindeer corpse
News
Physics
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
News
Environment
America’s last mammoths died of thirst on an Alaskan island
News
Health
Legal ketone sports supplement pushes athletes further, faster
News
Life
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
News
Environment
First evidence birds nap in flight without dropping out of sky
News
Health
Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer鈥檚 and stress
News
Environment
Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas
News
Environment
Inbreeding has destroyed the English bulldog鈥檚 genetic diversity
News
Environment
Orangutan learns to mimic human conversation for the first time
News
Environment
Controversial pesticides may be lowering the sperm count of bees
News
Health
Autoimmune diseases may be side effect of a strong immune system
News
Earth
Spiky new ant species is named after Game of Thrones dragons
News
Physics
Squishy cubes with a secret smile could be used for prosthetics
News
Space
Torn-apart galaxy may be exacting revenge on the Milky Way
News
Humans
Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse
News
One Per Cent
News
Technology
US police use machine learning to curb their own violence
News
Environment
Detective gulls sniff out illegally dumped trash from the skies
News
Analysis
Health
Can polio success help India improve its public health?
The legacy of polio eradication gives India a golden opportunity to fix its scandalously poor healthcare system. Will it take it?
News
Humans
Transgender Olympians in Rio don’t have an unfair advantage
News
Humans
Banking is still risky business as usual despite new rules
News
Humans
July was bad news but I鈥檓 fine 鈥� so why do I feel so terrible?
News
Features
Health
Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods
Trendy foods like wheatgrass and goji berries are lauded for their miraculous health benefits, but do the claims stack up? New 杏吧原创 chews on the evidence
Features
Health
Superfoods on trial: How can we know if they work?
Features
Humans
Does science undermine human rights?
Features
Space
Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?
Features
Environment
Enter an ecologist’s playground with the birdman of Wytham Woods
Features
Culture
Health
Why we’re funny about facts and prefer emotions
From Brexit and vaccines to climate change and GM foods, why do humans find expert advice so hard to take? Two new books have a lot of suggestions
Culture
Life
Brush up against the colourful limitations of our vision
Culture
Space
Iridium: story of a communications solution no one listened to
Culture
