Space
North Korea’s nukes are nearly ready for launch. Now what?
News
This week's magazine
8 October 2016
Issue 3094
On the cover
Editor's picks
Humans
Some languages die 鈥� get over it
News
Life
Why we worry: Understanding anxiety and how to help it
Features
Earth
The Enlightenment scientist who feared Earth’s frozen future
Features
Life
A language is born 鈥� and now it is dying
Features
Environment
The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Sponsored
Fabric care: the secret revolution
Fabric care used to be just about stain removal. Now clever chemistry can also keep clothes looking newer for longer
News
Physics
Physics and medicine Nobel prizes announced
News
Environment
Pangolins and parrots protected 鈥� lions and elephants lose out
News
Environment
First ‘baby dragons’ hatched in captivity reach adolescence
News
Physics
Rosetta lands on 67P in grand finale to two year comet mission
News
Space
Blue Origins in-flight escape system set for test launch
News
Humans
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Endangered frog recovers thanks to resistance to deadly fungus
News
Earth
Hurricane Matthew due to hit Haiti with 210kph winds today
News
Humans
Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough
News
Earth
Mars-like ice rediscovered in Hawaii volcano, but might not last
News
Humans
Don鈥檛 worry, bee happy: Bees found to have emotions and moods
News
Humans
115 might be as old as we can get thanks to our bodies’ limits
News
Space
China plans world鈥檚 biggest spaceplane to carry 20 tourists
News
Life
Artificial killer cells mimic life as they wipe out opponents
News
Humans
Men are more violent when there are more women around
News
Space
Giant hidden Jupiters may explain lonely planet systems
News
Space
Superfast spinning stars cause strangest weather in the universe
News
Health
Your boobs start to eat themselves after breastfeeding is over
News
Humans
Ancient bee fossil reveals secrets of human ancestor鈥檚 habitat
News
Space
Milky Way’s baby brother caught copying its star shredding habit
News
Health
Bouncy bone can be 3D-printed to become a universal repair kit
News
Environment
Budgies reveal the rule that means birds never collide in flight
News
Environment
Sound blasts could keep whales away from wind farm construction
News
Technology
Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines
News
Technology
Print stuff on the go with just your phone and a pen
News
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Plastic flower blooms thanks to its own internal molecular clock
News
Analysis
Space
North Korea’s nukes are nearly ready for launch. Now what?
Kim Jong-un may soon be able to hit his neighbours, and even the continental US, with Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons. It鈥檚 time to make sure he doesn鈥檛 hit the button
News
Humans
Maths says delaying Article 50 could bring better Brexit deal
News
Environment
Insects may have feelings, so do we need more humane fly spray?
News
Space
Elon Musk’s spectacular plan to colonise Mars lacks substance
News
Features
Environment
The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever
Crack natural gas into its constituent atoms and you can burn it without producing CO2 鈥� giving us green energy without all the pain of renewables
Features
Life
Why we worry: Understanding anxiety and how to help it
Features
Life
A language is born 鈥� and now it is dying
Features
Earth
The Enlightenment scientist who feared Earth’s frozen future
Features
Culture
Technology
Cramped, unpleasant and vulgar: is this the internet we planned?
The internet was supposed to usher in a new e-paradise. A new book, Utopia is Creepy, suggests it's not quite panned out that way
Culture
Life
Required: A moral vision for gene editing
Culture
Environment
Complex cats: Let’s see our feline friends as they really are
Culture
