Technology
Forget Tesla – China鈥檚 BYD is driving the electric car revolution
News
This week's magazine
13 July 2019
Issue 3238
On the cover
Editor's picks
Space
The moon race was about short-termism and control 鈥� we can do better
News
Space
Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon
Features
Health
Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong
Features
Technology
This professor of future crime stops burglaries before they happen
Features
Space
Future moon missions probably won’t carry astronauts – here’s why
Features
Space
7 bizarre objects from the festival’s worth of trash left on the moon
Features
Space
Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Two large earthquakes have hit California in two days
Two large earthquakes just a day apart in California has people asking if there is an even bigger one coming
News
Environment
David Attenborough on climate change: ‘We cannot be radical enough’
News
Technology
AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking
News
Health
Exclusive: Five couples lined up for CRISPR babies to avoid deafness
News
Health
Astronauts don’t seem to be dying from exposure to space radiation
News
Humans
Our species got to Europe 165,000 years earlier than we thought
News
Physics
Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan
News
Health
Extracting sperm directly from testicles could help infertility issues
News
Technology
China, Russia and the US are all racing to produce hypersonic weapons
News
Technology
Google has made a virtual soccer pitch to train AIs to play football
News
Environment
Climate mistake reveals Earth warmed more than we thought last century
News
Humans
Modern forensics solves Stone Age murder mystery after 33,000 years
News
Technology
YouTube suggests extremist content more often than alt-right site Gab
News
Environment
Unprecedented Arctic megafires are releasing a huge amount of CO2
News
Health
Nerve surgery helps people with paralysis control their hands and arms
News
Space
Exomoons that run away from their planets could become ‘ploonets’
News
Technology
Armoured liquid droplets make mini disco balls, letters and shapes
News
Environment
We could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane
News
Life
Seals remember what they just did 鈥� but only for about 18 seconds
News
Technology
Data can now be stored inside the molecules that power our metabolism
News
Humans
Ancient DNA reveals that Jews’ biblical rivals were from Greece
News
Technology
A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft
News
Analysis
Technology
Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the criminals are winning
Ransomware attacks, which see which see individuals and organisations locked out of their data unless they pay up, are on the rise and raking in huge profits
News
Technology
Forget Tesla – China鈥檚 BYD is driving the electric car revolution
News
Health
Make a living will if you want to decide how your life will end
News
Earth
Earth’s helium is running out and it has dire consequences for science
News
Features
Health
Why everything you know about nutrition is wrong
Are carbs good for you? Or eggs? Every week seems to bring contradictory new diet advice. New 杏吧原创 unpicks the surprising flaws in nutritional science
Features
Space
Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon
Features
Space
Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system
Features
Space
7 bizarre objects from the festival’s worth of trash left on the moon
Features
Space
Future moon missions probably won’t carry astronauts – here’s why
Features
Technology
This professor of future crime stops burglaries before they happen
Features
Culture
Environment
The weather project artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern
Artist Olafur Eliasson, who brought the sun to Tate Modern's turbine hall in 2003, returns with In Real Life, a new exhibition featuring incredible installations. We quiz him on selfies, short-term thinking and the climate reckoning to come
Culture
Humans
Don’t miss: Green films, rare plants and a cosmos tour
Culture
The Hummingbird Project flies with wicked humour and nerdy tech talk
Culture
More
Health
From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE
BSE or mad cow disease ravaged UK cattle in the 1980s. Sixty years ago, the little-known Kuru disease gave early warning of its still-unclear human effects
Regulars
Technology
Electronics projects for beginners: Sensors for talking to plants
Regulars
Liana Finck cartoon
Regulars
Technology
Sue Black on saving Bletchley Park and running for mayor of London
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