Health
We must reinvent urban spaces to improve the health of city dwellers
News
This week's magazine
27 March 2021
Issue 3327
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Hybrid coronaviruses from merged variants are spreading between people
Recombinant viruses made up of two coronavirus variants mashed together are now circulating widely among people, although for now they don't seem to carry mutations that make them more dangerous
News
Health
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy is declining as global roll-out ramps up
News
Health
Europeans get cold feet over covid-19 vaccines as third wave hits
News
Health
Mistrust fuels covid-19 vaccine doubts in Colombia’s Indigenous groups
News
Space
NASA鈥檚 InSight lander has measured the size of Mars鈥檚 molten core
News
Space
Perseverance鈥檚 first month on Mars has yielded new sights and sounds
News
Health
Embryos reverse ageing to become younger than when they first formed
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Life
Male toadfish protect the eggs in their care with antibacterial fluid
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Life
Llamas and alpacas carry genes from mysterious 鈥榞host鈥� relatives
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Technology
The US Navy has a mechanical battery that could power laser weapons
News
Life
Microbe somehow survives without key proteins for replicating its DNA
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Life
Horses may recognise themselves in a mirror, hinting at self-awareness
News
Health
Ebola may persist in the body for years before sparking new outbreaks
News
Space
A Japanese spacecraft bombed an asteroid and it barely flinched
News
Technology
There’s a global shortage of computer chips 鈥� what’s causing it?
News
Space
Satellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch
News
Technology
Reading about Firefox makes it seem a faster web browser than Chrome
News
Health
Human skin cells altered to mimic early stage of embryo development
News
Health
Parasites may make dogs smell good to disease-spreading sandflies
News
Environment
Recent Australian wildfires led to record atmospheric pollution
News
Health
Women with senior jobs sleep better in countries with gender equality
News
Life
Bizarre ‘manta shark’ slowly cruised the oceans 93 million years ago
News
Life
Giant armoured dinosaur may have dug in the ground for food and water
News
Humans
Your leg muscles automatically act to stop you falling when you trip
News
Analysis
Features
Environment
Green spaces aren鈥檛 just for nature 鈥� they boost our mental health too
We鈥檙e beginning to understand just how vital access to natural space is for our mental well-being 鈥� with implications for how we design cities worldwide
Features
Earth
Huge rogue waves rise from nowhere to sink ships. Can we predict them?
Features
Humans
Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet
Features
Culture
Humans
The World Before Us review: A gripping account of Earth’s other humans
The Neanderthals, Denisovans and many others once shared Earth with us. What happened 鈥� and where are they now? Archaeologist Tom Higham has written a great insider account
Culture
The Hunt for Planet B review: Tracking the James Webb Space Telescope
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: The Best of World SF, with tales old and new
Culture
Humans
An Impossible Project review: Heartfelt film about Polaroid’s saviour
Culture
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Environment
How to create a garden that’s perfect for pollinators
Many species of pollinating insects are in decline in the UK. Here's how home gardeners can help turn things around with the right plants, says Clare Wilson
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on the thousands of species science is yet to find
Regulars
Tom Gauld tells a quantum physics joke (and simultaneously doesn’t)
Regulars
Regulars
The rise of ‘experiential units’ that are impossible to understand
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Should we genetically engineer cats to stop their urge to kill?
Last Word
If there are other universes, would our universe feel their gravity?
Last Word
Why do wet dogs like to shake themselves dry beside people? (continued)
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
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