Health
Human hibernation sounds fanciful, but it may now be saving lives
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This week's magazine
15 October 2022
Issue 3408
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Environment
Extreme weather threat to energy security is as serious as Ukraine war
Countries aren't taking the threat from extreme weather to energy security seriously enough, the World Meteorological Organization warns
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Health
Monkeypox: A dangerous variant circulating in the DRC could go global
News
Environment
Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days
News
9 surprising things we learned at New 杏吧原创 Live 2022
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Life
Monkeys and lemurs are coming down from the trees as climate warms up
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Environment
Intensive farming of cleared land could save rest of Amazon rainforest
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Space
Space adverts are now economically viable but potentially dangerous
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Mathematics
DeepMind AI finds new way to multiply numbers and speed up computers
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Health
Smoking and body mass are together linked to 226 medical conditions
News
Space
Lava erupting on Jupiter鈥檚 volcanic moon Io is over 1000掳C
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Environment
Megadrought could become the new normal in the south-western US
News
Health
International rugby union players face higher risk of dementia
News
Environment
What鈥檚 causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast?
News
Mind
Learning to play an instrument could boost your short-term memory
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Life
Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose
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Humans
Our ancestors鈥� prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps
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Analysis
Environment
Can Britain avoid winter blackouts amid the European energy crisis?
If the electricity supply from the continent ceases, households in England, Scotland and Wales may need to ration their own power use at peak times to keep the lights on
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Technology
Boston Dynamics leads call to stop arming robots 鈥� will anyone listen?
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Technology
Brain training apps claim to make us smarter, but there is no evidence
News
Technology
The success of text-to-image AIs raises major ethical issues
News
Features
Mind
How curiosity can supercharge your brain and boost your success
Curiosity can boost memory and creativity for sharper thinking, yet it can also lead to distraction and procrastination. The trick is to know when and how to use it
Features
Physics
Carlo Rovelli on the bizarre world of relational quantum mechanics
Features
Health
Human hibernation is a real possibility – this is how it might work
Features
Culture
Health
The Long Covid Handbook review: Examining a debilitating condition
This deep dive into what we know about long covid from Gez Medinger and Danny Altmann is welcome 鈥� but leans a little too heavily on anecdotal information
Culture
Humans
Don’t Miss: In Plain Sight, an exhibition about visual perception
Culture
Humans
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness review: Complex and engaging
Culture
Technology
Hardspace: Shipbreaker review: strip spacecraft for parts in orbit
Culture
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Regulars
On smoking, tea drinking and “mental activities after dinner”
Feedback explores a key new study looking at tea-drinking smokers and their postprandial sprightliness, while also investigating the prospects of entomologically fortified butter
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Why do humans have pubic hair? (Part 2)
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
Where is the water that Europe and China are missing this year?
Last Word
What happens to a photon after it hits the retina of my eye?
Last Word
