Health
We still don’t know whether vaping is safe or not
News
This week's magazine
30 November 2019
Issue 3258
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Fast access to new medicines shouldn鈥檛 mean endangering our health
News
Health
Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health
Features
Environment
Naomi Oreskes: Turn your anger at science denial into political action
Features
Physics
Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing
Features
Table of contents
News
Environment
UN report reveals how hard it will be to meet climate change targets
Carbon emissions from human activity have never fallen globally, but to keep global warming to 1.5掳C they need to tumble by nearly 8 per cent every year for the next decade
News
Life
A blue whale’s heart beats just twice a minute when it dives for food
News
Health
Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
News
Physics
The mystery of the mass of the neutrino could soon be solved
News
Space
Jupiter鈥檚 Great Red Spot is healthy despite looking like it鈥檚 dying
News
Health
An AI doctor is analysing heart scans in dozens of hospitals
News
Health
Wearable artificial kidney works well in first tests in people
News
Physics
Grand unified game theory can represent all two-player games
News
Life
Convert your dog’s age into human years using this new formula
News
Mind
Married heterosexual men happiest earning 50 per cent more than wives
News
Technology
People share fake news online even when they can tell it’s not true
News
Health
70 is the new 65 when it comes to health and life expectancy in the UK
News
Environment
We may be closer than we thought to Earth’s dangerous tipping points
News
Space
Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground
News
Technology
Swarms of golf ball-sized robots could detect leaks in the sewers
News
Life
Semen seems to help female fruit flies remember things better
News
Mind
If you don鈥檛 notice something within 1.5 seconds, you may never see it
News
Humans
Humans across cultures may share the same universal musical grammar
News
Environment
Palm oil from Colombia is more climate and wildlife friendly
News
Technology
Artificial skin could be used to make video games more realistic
News
Analysis
Health
We still don’t know whether vaping is safe or not
Vaping was once thought to be "95 per cent safer than smoking", but a sudden rise in deaths and injury linked to e-cigarettes is causing some people to reconsider
News
Society
General election 2019: Why you should think climate change not Brexit
News
Physics
Studying the universe鈥檚 origins hint that its beginning has no end
News
Features
Health
Why the medicine you take could actually be bad for your health
Rushing medicines to market is supposed to help people in need. But relying on lower standards of evidence may ultimately cause more harm than good.
Features
Environment
Naomi Oreskes: Turn your anger at science denial into political action
Features
Physics
Exotic super magnets could shake up medicine, cosmology and computing
Features
Culture
Humans
The dark side of innovation: From dynamite to climate change
Cultural evolution defines us as humans, but its products kill as people weaponise consumer tech and climate change threatens Earth, argue two new books
Culture
Humans
Nam June Paik exhibition recreates his prophetic video visions
Culture
Health
Don’t miss: knotty sculptures, deadly diseases and molecular machines
Culture
Health
Human Nature film review: Telling the CRISPR story with wit and verve
Culture
More
Humans
The Bhopal disaster 35 years on: Why the full truth remains unknown
On the night of 2 December 1984, a chemical leak from a pesticides plant killed thousands in the Indian city of Bhopal 鈥� but no one has really been called to account
Regulars
Space
Seize your chance to spot Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet
Regulars
‘I like a challenge’: CERN physicist on the draw of weird antimatter
Regulars
Regulars
Need a digital detox? Then why not make a paper copy of your phone
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
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Letters
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Last Word
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This week鈥檚 new questions
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