Technology
Bitcoin’s price is plummeting 鈥� will the cryptocurrency survive?
News
This week's magazine
15 December 2018
Issue 3208
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
Bitcoin has become an environmental, as well as financial, disaster
News
Physics
If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind
Features
Life
Jellyfish offer a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution
Features
Humans
The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators
Features
Environment
Climate change is happening, but how fast? This is what we really know
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Humans
Exclusive: Controversial skeleton may be a new species of early human
A skeleton found decades ago in South Africa may be a new species of Australopithecus, and could help reveal when our ancestors evolved to walk on two feet
News
Environment
Katowice climate talks are making headlines for the wrong reasons
News
Space
China is about to launch a mission to explore the far side of the moon
News
Environment
The Great Barrier Reef is fighting back by losing weak species
News
Health
The most comfortable running shoes may actually increase injury risk
News
Technology
Major companies are using AI to decide who you speak to on the phone
News
Health
Spray-on gel slows down the regrowth of tumours after cancer surgery
News
Physics
Vibrating crystal made of 10 billion atoms smashes quantum record
News
Life
City living makes urban male frogs far more attractive to females
News
Space
Interstellar asteroid 鈥極umuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen
News
Technology
Why Australia鈥檚 new encryption laws may actually help criminals
News
Mind
Brain scans reveal why your brain forgets details
News
Technology
Your whole office could be a computer thanks to sculpted Wi-Fi waves
News
Technology
Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight
News
Space
Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind
News
Technology
DeepMind鈥檚 Go playing software can now beat you at two more games
News
Life
Geckos sprint across water on air bubbles they make with their legs
News
Life
Parrots are clever because their brains evolved the same way as ours
News
Health
Phone app can diagnose anaemia from photos of fingernails
News
Health
Tiny sun sensor warns you when your skin is about to burn
News
Life
Bacteria could protect old paintings from pigment-eating microbes
News
Earth
Fossil blubber shows ichthyosaurs were warm blooded reptiles
News
Health
First baby born thanks to womb transplant from deceased donor
News
Analysis
Technology
Bitcoin’s price is plummeting 鈥� will the cryptocurrency survive?
Bitcoin investors have had a rough ride this year as the price of the cryptocurrency has tumbled, making it less economical to produce the coins
News
Comment
Sorry France, but fuel taxes are a bitter pill we must all swallow
News
Comment
We have all we need to beat the HIV epidemic 鈥� except political will
News
Technology
Facebook grew so big that it destabilised the world. What now?
News
Features
Physics
If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind
White holes are black ones in reverse, spewing out matter鈥� and they could give us our first glimpse of the quantum source of space-time, says physicist Carlo Rovelli
Features
Environment
Climate change is happening, but how fast? This is what we really know
Features
Humans
The disorientated ape: Why clever people can be terrible navigators
Features
Life
Jellyfish offer a sticky solution to the problem of plastic pollution
Features
Culture
Life
Home Futures review 鈥� what living spaces teach us about our culture
From robo-walking cities to living rooms that fold away, the revolutionary ideas on show at London's Design Museum tell us much about the way we live
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: a chance to play WiFI Wars and revisit the Apollo 8 days
Culture
Environment
Darkfield’s Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead
Culture
Life
Coral Whisperers review 鈥� How global warming is changing researchers
Culture
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How clever chemistry is making plastic fantastic again
Plastic waste threatens a wide range of ecosystems all over the planet. But innovative ways of making, reusing and recycling plastic are set to change our relationship with this extraordinary material
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Technology
From the archives: How LaserDiscs (almost) took the world by storm
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