Technology
ISIS is weaponising consumer drones and we can’t stop them – yet
News
This week's magazine
1 July 2017
Issue 3132
Editor's picks
Technology
Drone blowback: High-tech weapons come home to roost
News
Health
Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years
Features
Health
Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science
Features
Life
Find the flow: Harnessing the incredible power of living fluids
Features
Earth
Open the floodgates: Designer deluges could save dammed rivers
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Health
Senate bill could leave 22 million more without health insurance
US senate leaders are attempting to replace Obama's Affordable Care Act with a controversial bill that could leave millions more people without health insurance
News
Health
Research on male animals prevents women from getting best drugs
News
Technology
Cyberattack on UK parliament exploited weak email passwords
News
Physics
Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017
News
Earth
60 Seconds
News
Life
Modified maize that kills with RNA is given go-ahead in the US
News
Earth
Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks
News
Space
SpaceX has launched and landed two rockets in one weekend
News
Consciousness helps us learn quickly in a changing world
News
Space
Planets in other star systems fit a puzzling pattern
News
Humans
Chimps are not as superhumanly strong as we thought they were
News
Life
Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet
News
Environment
LA’s endangered pumas to be saved by a $60m bridge over highway
News
Mind
Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs
News
Earth
Oil-exploration airguns punch 2-kilometre-wide holes in plankton
News
Health
Living near noisy roads could make it harder to get pregnant
News
Health
Synthetic iris could let cameras react to light like our eyes do
News
Earth
Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here
News
Technology
Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images
News
Technology
Google’s multitasking neural net can juggle eight things at once
News
Environment
Bird eggs may be shaped by the way their mother flies
News
Environment
Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks
News
Health
Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts
News
Technology
This handy robot will iron your clothes so you don’t have to
News
Physics
Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday
News
Space
Uranus’s crooked, messy magnetic field might open and shut daily
News
Environment
Weird amphibians found at record depth in dark underground lake
News
Health
Radio powered by your own sweat hints at future of wearables
News
Environment
Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer
News
The greatest science show in the known universe
News
Analysis
Technology
ISIS is weaponising consumer drones and we can’t stop them – yet
The terrorist group is already strapping grenades to drones as it fights to retain the Iraqi city of Mosul, but what happens if airborne terror comes to the West?
News
If you want to be a mega philanthropist Jeff Bezos, take note
News
Environment
UK foxes thankfully spared the baying pack, unlike Theresa May
News
Health
Don’t blame Instagram for the rise of botox and lip fillers
News
Features
Health
Why your real age may be older – or younger – than your years
Biological age can diverge from the number of years we celebrate on our birthdays - and it sheds light on the time we have left
Features
Life
Find the flow: Harnessing the incredible power of living fluids
Features
Earth
Open the floodgates: Designer deluges could save dammed rivers
Features
Health
Mary Somerville: Queen of 19th-century science
Features
