This week's magazine
Editor's picks
News
Health
Lab-made eggs will help people have children when they choose to
News
Health
What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life
Features
Life
Life’s subatomic secret: How we’re cracking the Hoyle state
Features
Technology
Don’t give up: The inventor of 3D printing tells his story
Features
Environment
How beavers could help save the western US from a dry future
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Technology
Security agencies collected data unlawfully, UK court rules
Tribunal finds secret collection and use of confidential personal information by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 breached privacy laws for more than a decade
News
Earth
UK government taken to court over failure to cut air pollution
News
Environment
Whales’ dung is the real reason we need to stop hunting them
News
Space
China launches two astronauts to stay on its new space station
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Health
One in 20 European patients catch an infection while in hospital
News
Earth
Ban for gases that saved the ozone layer but now warm the planet
News
Physics
ExoMars spacecraft splits in two to explore Mars surface and air
News
Health
Eggs made from skin cells in lab could herald end of infertility
News
Earth
Islands to lose fresh water as rising seas sink them from within
News
Physics
Strange signals from 234 stars could be ET – or human error
News
Life
Cheese-making led to gene-swapping orgy of bacterial bestiality
News
Health
How will you look after Botox? 3D scans could give you a preview
News
Health
Overweight mothers give birth to biologically older babies
News
Physics
Proxima b’s hyperactive star is more sun-like than thought
News
Space
Toddler stars’ baby fat kicks out almost all their exoplanets
News
Mind
Quadriplegic man feels touch on robotic hand with brain implant
News
Earth
Frogfish turns itself white to blend in with bleached corals
News
Life
First birds made honking sounds more than 66 million years ago
News
Space
Uranus might have two dark moons we’ve never seen before
News
Life
Worms seen farming plants to be eaten later for the first time
News
Health
These are the foods you should eat if you want less smelly farts
News
Life
Spiders can hear you walking and talking from across the room
News
Earth
California is covering mountains with sensors to fight drought
News
Technology
First UK trial of driverless pods paves way for autonomous taxis
News
Technology
Quantum film sensor stops delivery drones crashing into things
News
One Per Cent
News
Health
Drones will fly life-saving blood supplies to clinics in Rwanda
News
Analysis
Environment
Is it right to kill millions of animals if it protects others?
Culls are routinely carried out around the world in the name of upholding biodiversity and animal welfare. Are they ethical and do they work, asks Alice Klein
News
Health
Kratom ban rethink is a hint of sanity in failed US war on drugs
News
Humans
Exploding Samsung phone shows how risky lithium batteries can be
News
Health
Home abortions are safe – we should let women do it themselves
News
Features
Health
What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life
Each life is equally valuable. Until it's not. From the cost of saving your life to your worth once you’re gone, there's a price on all our heads
Features
Life
Life’s subatomic secret: How we’re cracking the Hoyle state
Features
Environment
How beavers could help save the western US from a dry future
Features
Technology
Don’t give up: The inventor of 3D printing tells his story
Features
Culture
Humans
Who Owns the Dead? The atrocity of 9/11 casts a long shadow
The $80 million forensic investigation after New York’s terrorist attacks identified many victims. But with 1113 remains unidentified, a new book outlines the many issues outstanding
Culture
Humans
Golden oldies: The pudgy dad hypothesis and why older men matter
Culture
Humans
An enormous shape-shifting artwork – run by yeast
Culture