This week's magazine
Editor's picks
News
Environment
Don’t forget the lessons of deadly lead
News
Space
The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe
Features
Health
Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster
Features
Environment
Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head
Features
Health
Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Humans
Our species may be 150,000 years older than we thought
New fossil bones and tools from Morocco show that the familiar face of Homo sapiens was present in Africa as early as 350,000 years ago
News
Health
Promising results from new drugs for prostate and ovarian cancer
News
Space
SpaceX launches first reused Dragon capsule full of research
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Google blocker to eliminate bad ads and let users go ad-free
News
Earth
Accelerating Antarctic crack will hasten calving of huge iceberg
News
Technology
Theresa May’s repeated calls to ban encryption still won’t work
News
Health
Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer’s risk
News
Humans
Automatic sign language translators turn signing into text
News
Technology
Robot dog has an artificial woof that sounds like the real thing
News
Environment
Extinct species of Galapagos giant tortoise may be resurrected
News
Technology
Robots will be more useful if they are made to lack confidence
News
Health
Drinking small amounts while pregnant may affect the baby’s face
News
Health
Drug that boosts confidence in your own actions may help OCD
News
Earth
Huge ice age methane blowout is ill omen for glacier retreat
News
Humans
Photos of human faces reassembled from monkeys’ brain signals
News
Physics
LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born
News
Life
The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator
News
Life
Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake
News
Environment
Watch cuttlefish apparently pretending to walk just like crabs
News
Humans
AI will be able to beat us at everything by 2060, say experts
News
Space
The hottest planet yet is twice Jupiter’s size and hot as a star
News
Health
Unhealthy vagina microbiome can make HIV drugs less effective
News
Life
Ticks use sticky pads on their feet to cling on to our skin
News
Environment
Brain switch in voles makes them fall in love at first sight
News
Analysis
Earth
Trump ditching Paris climate deal isn’t the end of the world
The US president has decided to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, but the rest of us, including US states and cities, can come together to work around him and save the planet
News
Space
NASA is right to pay homage to the living for the first time
News
Earth
Geoengineering fears make scrutiny of ocean seeding test vital
News
Humans
How to combat the dark Facebook ads aiming to swing UK voters
News
Features
Space
The Higgs bang: The particle that blew up the universe
It gives everything mass, and now some people think the Higgs boson sparked the stupendous split-second inflation that made the cosmos we see today
Features
Health
Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health
Features
Environment
Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head
Features
Health
Inventor hero was a one-man environmental disaster
Features
Culture
Humans
The stories we tell have the power to shape our future
Stories about a better future can help break the dominance of the story that says you’re screwed, says legendary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson
Culture
Environment
Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles
Culture
Physics
Brecht’s Life of Galileo pumped up for the 21st century
Culture