Health
‘I felt like such a slave’: Why one man gave up porn for good
News
This week's magazine
1 October 2016
Issue 3093
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
Childhood poverty can be a life sentence 鈥� we must act
News
Humans
Don’t think: How your brain works things out all by itself
Features
Humans
Break bad habits by hacking the autopilot in your brain
Features
Humans
Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening
Features
Humans
How to see the thoughts you don’t know you are having
Features
Humans
Neuroscientist sees kids suffer brain damage due to dire poverty
Features
Humans
Your brain’s crystal ball helps you understand speech and fear
Features
Earth
Let’s harness synthetic biology to fix our broken planet
Features
Humans
How we know where our limbs are without thinking
Features
Humans
We accurately weigh up a person’s character in 0.1 seconds
Features
Physics
Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos
Features
Table of contents
News
US set to miss its emissions target under the Paris climate deal
The UN鈥檚 Paris climate agreement looks likely to come into effect earlier than thought, but the US for one needs to do much more to honour its commitments
News
Space
Plumes spotted on Europa raise hopes that we can taste its ocean
News
Space
Biggest radio telescope on Earth ready to receive alien signals
News
Rosetta spacecraft to complete its mission with a crash
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Refugee fence and solar plant may wipe out one of rarest mammals
News
Humans
Kuwait lawyers fight world鈥檚 first mandatory DNA sampling law
News
Health
Exclusive: World鈥檚 first baby born with new 鈥�3 parent鈥� technique
News
Health
Brain-eating amoebas hunt brain chemical before they kill you
News
Earth
You can see fracking’s impact on Earth’s surface from space
News
Humans
Mystery text’s language-like patterns may be an elaborate hoax
News
Humans
Cave fires and rhino skull used in Neanderthal burial rituals
News
Health
Could sex hormones help addicted women stop taking opioids?
News
Living with adult children could protect against depression
News
Life
Brain has carrot and stick to teach us how to behave
News
Environment
Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds
News
Physics
Supernova extraordinaire might actually be a black hole’s lunch
News
Space
Puffed-up exoplanets inflate with heat from their stars alone
News
Health
Body clock gene may help lethal spread of breast cancer
News
Environment
How baby beluga whales dive deeper and longer than any others
News
Environment
Surfing on a turtle鈥檚 tail makes swinging crabs monogamous
News
Technology
Uber and Google race against car firms to map the world’s cities
News
One Per Cent
News
Mind
Camera spots your hidden prejudices from your body language
News
Technology
The Wikipedia bots that are engaged in spats that never end
News
Analysis
Health
The truth about porn: why masturbation won’t kill your sex life
Has online pornography created a generation of impotent young men with a dangerous addiction to extreme images? Clare Wilson investigates
News
Health
‘I felt like such a slave’: Why one man gave up porn for good
News
Environment
World must resist pressure to lift ban on trade in rhino horn
News
Earth
Repairing your old fridge sounds green but buying new is better
News
Features
Humans
Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening
Can you really set a mental alarm clock by hitting your head on the pillow before you go to bed? Turns out that's not so far from the truth
Features
Humans
Don’t think: How your brain works things out all by itself
Features
Humans
We accurately weigh up a person’s character in 0.1 seconds
Features
Humans
How we know where our limbs are without thinking
Features
Humans
Break bad habits by hacking the autopilot in your brain
Features
Humans
Your brain’s crystal ball helps you understand speech and fear
Features
Humans
How to see the thoughts you don’t know you are having
Features
Earth
Let’s harness synthetic biology to fix our broken planet
Features
Physics
Robot eyes are catching up with our exploding cosmos
Features
Humans
Neuroscientist sees kids suffer brain damage due to dire poverty
Features
Culture
Environment
Animal sound symphony tells us new things about our world
The Great Animal Orchestra, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, to 8 January 2017; Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the voice of the natural world by Bernie Krause, Yale University Press, 2016 (revised edition)
Culture
Technology
When art and technology pull each other to bits
Culture
