Environment
How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death
News
This week's magazine
29 October 2016
Issue 3097
On the cover
Editor's picks
Environment
Man or mouse? Why drug research has taken the wrong turning
News
Physics
The universe is flat as a pancake, and we don’t understand why
Features
Technology
The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory
Features
Environment
Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase
Features
Physics
Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence?
Features
Humans
Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy
Features
Physics
The universe lines up along the ‘axis of evil’. Coincidence?
Features
Physics
Cosmic dark matter and energy balance 鈥� for now. Coincidence?
Features
Physics
One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe
Features
Physics
The Higgs boson makes the universe stable 鈥� just. Coincidence?
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Snowmobile plunge claims life of Antarctica researcher
An expert on how melting glaciers feed sea level rise has died in a crevasse fall 鈥� a reminder of the hazards of the Antarctic terrain
News
Space
Mars orbiter spots new crater that may be ExoMars’s lost lander
News
Health
Kuwait to change law forcing all citizens to provide DNA samples
News
Earth
Why San Francisco鈥檚 next quake could be much bigger than feared
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Massive botnet-powered web attack fuels need to step up defences
News
Health
Addiction to prescription drugs is UK ‘public health disaster’
News
Environment
Hundreds of endangered wild snow leopards are killed each year
News
Health
Paralysed people inhabit distant robot bodies with thought alone
News
Physics
Physics tweak solves five of the biggest problems in one go
News
Life
Shawl thing: Cashmere could soon come from gene-edited goats
News
Environment
Mice fall for rubber hand illusion just like us
News
Earth
Iceland drills hottest hole to tap into energy of molten magma
News
Life
Kamikaze cells wage biowarfare and fight viruses with viruses
News
Health
$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant
News
Technology
Material that shrinks in heat can weather extreme temperatures
News
Humans
Lying feels bad at first but our brains soon adapt to deceiving
News
Humans
Mice鈥檚 love songs go wrong when 鈥榣anguage gene鈥� is messed up
News
Space
Pluto may sport clouds of poisonous acid and flammable gases
News
Space
Double star may light up the sky as rare red nova in six years
News
Environment
Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal
News
Environment
Our ancestors chose reeds over grain when quitting nomadic life
News
Health
Is pain catching? First clues that it might spread to others
News
Health
Smart camera system checks patients’ vital signs from afar
News
One Per Cent
News
Mind
Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers
News
Technology
Playing Grand Theft Auto can teach autonomous cars how to drive
News
Technology
Roaming fashion robots keep busy doing odd jobs on your clothes
News
Analysis
Environment
How to save ourselves from the invisible gas choking us to death
Cities are battling to meet legal standards for air pollution, but even that isn't enough to make air safe, says Michael Le Page
News
Earth
Final US presidential clash fails on climate change once more
News
Health
Dental checks can’t verify the age of child asylum seekers
News
Technology
Police mass face recognition in the US will net innocent people
News
Features
Humans
Exploring the uncanny valley: Why almost-human is creepy
From sinister clowns to humanoid robots, we're freaked out by faces that are like ours, just not enough. Now we're finding out why
Features
Physics
Cosmic dark matter and energy balance 鈥� for now. Coincidence?
Features
Physics
The universe lines up along the ‘axis of evil’. Coincidence?
Features
Physics
One idea explains all the weird coincidences in the universe
Features
Physics
The universe is flat as a pancake, and we don’t understand why
Features
Physics
Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence?
Features
Technology
The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory
Features
Physics
The Higgs boson makes the universe stable 鈥� just. Coincidence?
Features
Environment
Lab mice are sending us on a wild goose chase
Features
Culture
Humans
A Day in the Life of the Brain hunts consciousness
Susan Greenfield's latest book struggles to find a different solution to how the "water" of objective neural activity becomes "wine" of consciousness
Culture
Environment
Trees have an inner life like ours, claims bestseller
Culture
Technology
Lo and Behold takes Werner Herzog on a tour round the internet
Culture
