Technology
Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science
News
This week's magazine
21 September 2019
Issue 3248
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
The 4 ingredients to create consciousness could explain our own minds
News
Mind
True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind
Features
Environment
Deliberate drowning of Brazil’s rainforest is worsening climate change
Features
Life
Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion
Features
Table of contents
News
Health
One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time
One in 16 US girls and women were forced into having sex for the first time, either physically or through other kinds of pressure
News
Environment
Fires devastating Australia鈥檚 east coast have arrived unusually early
News
Technology
AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek
News
Space
Black hole that ‘rings’ like a bell shows Einstein was right
News
Humans
Vikings probably hunted Iceland’s walruses to extinction for ivory
News
Humans
We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees
News
Environment
Special report: How climate change is melting France鈥檚 largest glacier
News
Environment
Largest ever polar expedition will soon be frozen in drifting sea ice
News
Earth
Meltwater from Greenland could raise sea level an extra 7 centimetres
News
Space
We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth
News
Physics
50-year old maths problem about an infinite lottery finally solved
News
Life
Decline of migrating birds could be partly due to pesticides
News
Physics
Baffling maths riddle that looks like a pile of worms almost solved
News
Health
A network in the brain is involved in a range of mental health issues
News
Mind
Boosting circadian rhythms can help relieve perinatal depression
News
Health
Bones release a hormone that helps us deal with sudden danger
News
Space
This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we’ve seen so far
News
Life
Ghost crabs use teeth in their stomach to growl at their enemies
News
Technology
Generator that runs on heat escaping to the sky can charge phones
News
Technology
Robot can launch out of the water and glide like a flying fish
News
Space
There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy
News
Analysis
Technology
Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein donated huge sums of money to the MIT Media Lab. Is it time we had better ways to decide who can fund science?
News
Comment
The school climate strikes this Friday need the support of adults
News
Laws are needed when technological change ends up squeezing workers
News
Features
Mind
True nature of consciousness: Solving the biggest mystery of your mind
Far from being a mystical 鈥済host in the machine鈥�, consciousness evolved as a practical mental tool and we could engineer it in a robot using these simple guidelines
Features
Environment
Deliberate drowning of Brazil’s rainforest is worsening climate change
Features
Life
Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion
Features
Culture
Humans
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments’ anti-science world is a grim warning
Thirty four years after The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale and a hit TV show later, Margaret Atwood鈥檚 intriguing sequel, The Testaments, highlights the power of narrative
Culture
Space
Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?
Culture
Life
Don’t miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans
Culture
Comment
The best roguelike games are a perfect balance of order and randomness
Culture
More
Health
How aspirin became a wonder drug against heart disease and cancer
Aspirin has long been prized for its pain and fever reducing properties 鈥� but 40 years ago New 杏吧原创 reported on the first inklings of wider benefits
Regulars
Space
A stargazer’s guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun
Regulars
Physics
xkcd comic creator Randall Munroe on the thrill of physics
Regulars
Regulars
Loch Ness Monster unmasked: it鈥檚 a load of eels in a giant eel costume
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
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Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Why do biscuits go soft and cakes go hard?
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