Health
Fat and proud: Why body-positive activists say obesity can be healthy
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Paralysis need not mean paralysis for life
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Life
The rare-leopard spotter who accidentally caught gunmen in her traps
Features
Life
Hacking nature's coolest inventions to create the perfect metal
Features
Technology
Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI
Features
Humans
We thought the Incas couldn't write. These knots change everything
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Life
Honeybee swarms act like superorganisms to stay together in high winds
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Life
Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab
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Health
Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction
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Health
The whiff of sandalwood makes the human head sprout more hair
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Life
Dance flies attract males with their hairy legs and inflatable sacs
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Mind
Subliminal messages can make you forget memories without realising
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Physics
Quantum mechanics may contradict itself when applied to big objects
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Earth
Earliest known animal was a half-billion-year-old underwater blob
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Technology
A mind-reading headset lets people fly drones using their thoughts
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Environment
Mosquitoes are eating plastic and spreading it to new food chains
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Health
Killing 'zombie' brain cells can prevent memory loss in mice
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Life
Octopuses taking MDMA get all huggy and loved-up with each other
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Technology
A tiny robotic capsule could roam your intestines and suck up mucus
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Space
NASA’s new exoplanet-hunter has spotted its first alien worlds
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Technology
Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks
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Mathematics
Infinity war: The ongoing battle over the world's hardest maths proof
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Life
The 7 non-human mammals where females rule the roost
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Space
Japanese space hoppers reveal glorious sci-fi vision of asteroid Ryugu
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Life
Evolution-defying DNA makes mosquitoes infertile by changing their sex
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Physics
Riemann hypothesis likely remains unsolved despite claimed proof
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Health
Three people with paralysis can walk again with nerve-boosting implant
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Technology
UK civil servants use Slack to chat about games, drinking and romance
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Earth
Devastation continues more than a week after Hurricane Florence
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Health
Loneliness among over 50s likely to increase in the next seven years
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