Environment
Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment?
News
This week's magazine
24 November 2018
Issue 3205
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
Time to break academic publishing’s stranglehold on research
News
Life
Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
Features
Physics
How a ghostly, forgotten particle could be the saviour of physics
Features
Technology
An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?
Features
Life
37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
Life
To truly blossom, science requires some unorthodox thinkers
What seem like odd ideas often lead to advances. Work on plant memory and learning could be the latest example of how thinking differently changes our view of the world
News
Technology
Time to break academic publishing’s stranglehold on research
News
News
Environment
California’s dry summer set the stage for the Camp Fire
The devastating Camp Fire, which has claimed dozens of lives, was made more likely by California's dry summer 鈥� which is probably a result of climate change
News
Earth
Thousands evacuated as Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire erupts again
News
Space
NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover
News
Physics
Kilogram to be defined by Planck constant instead of a lump of metal
News
Technology
Electric zero-emissions plane raises hopes for eco-friendly air travel
News
Environment
Searching for Antarctica鈥檚 penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice
News
Health
Silencing a gene may prevent deadly pre-eclampsia in pregnancy
News
Physics
Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity
News
Life
Termites in Brazil have covered an area the size of Britain in mounds
News
Technology
Car assembly is heavy work 鈥� this exoskeleton can boost your strength
News
Humans
Complex stone tools in China may re-write our species’ ancient history
News
Health
A new DNA sequencing service wants to reward you for sharing your data
News
Space
There鈥檚 an enormous ghost galaxy hiding at the edge of the Milky Way
News
Technology
Web tracker can follow you for months even if you delete your cookies
News
Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier
News
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
News
Technology
Microbots made from mushroom spores could clean polluted water
News
Health
Prefer tea or coffee? It may be down to your genes for bitter tastes
News
Technology
A computer game’s edible controller lets you play it with your gut
News
Mind
Walking backwards can boost your short-term memory
News
Health
Catching up on sleep at weekends may aggravate period pain
News
Environment
Urbanisation made flooding from Hurricane Harvey 21 times as likely
News
Analysis
Environment
Are disposable nappies really so terrible for the environment?
Disposable nappies have been named as the latest plastic good we should ban, but there are problems with compostable and reusable alternatives too
News
Comment
Environmentalists must embrace nuclear power to stem climate change
News
Comment
There is no fundamental difference between male and female brains
News
Technology
Google鈥檚 takeover of health app appears to renege on DeepMind promises
News
Features
Life
37 trillion pieces of you: The plan to map the entire human body
The workings of the myriad cells that make us are a huge mystery. A vast new project is changing that 鈥� and bringing sweeping insights into how we live and die
Features
Physics
How a ghostly, forgotten particle could be the saviour of physics
Features
Technology
An audacious new plan will make all science free. Can it work?
Features
Life
Smarty plants: They can learn, adapt and remember without brains
Features
Culture
Earth
North Pole and Polar Worlds review 鈥� why Inuit don’t worry about north
Exciting tales of heroic polar explorers make a great exhibition, but a book on the North Pole shows that times are too changed not to seek deeper narratives
Culture
Life
Don鈥檛 miss: tiny patterns, a transgender scientist and a Mars meeting
Culture
Iconic museum of science, art and design is turning itself inside out
Culture
Health
The psychedelic science behind dreamy new Netflix hit, Maniac
Culture
