Environment
Packaging-free shops may tackle plastic but risk increasing food waste
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Life
Japan's return to commercial whaling has no economic or cultural case
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Life
Why cat people and dog people's personalities match those of their pet
Features
Physics
The time paradox: How your brain creates the fourth dimension
Features
Environment
Ancient Earth reveals terrifying consequences of future global warming
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Life
An Arctic fox made an epic 4400-kilometre-long journey over sea ice
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Technology
Tiny flying insect robot has four wings and weighs under a gram
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Mind
Bystander effect: Famous psychology result could be completely wrong
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Life
Flightless bird three times the size of an ostrich used to roam Europe
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Health
Barefoot walkers have tough feet but sense the ground just as well
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Life
Ancient crocodile cousins evolved vegetarianism at least three times
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Space
Mystery radio waves from space tracked to a surprising home galaxy
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Mind
Miniature brains grown in the lab have human-like neural activity
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Technology
Shatterproof phone screens could be made from seashell-like glass
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Space
NASA is sending a drone to fly around Titan looking for signs of life
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Space
Planet in triple-star system may be our best chance to find alien life
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Technology
Remains of Genoa bridge demolished one year after deadly disaster
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Technology
Gettysburg Address stored in DNA using a binary code made of holes
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Health
We could kill cancer cells by hijacking their odd electrical current
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Technology
YouTube anti-vax videos are on the decline but are yet to be wiped out
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Environment
Antarctic sea ice is declining dramatically and we don’t know why
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Health
Have mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?
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Space
The weirdest stars we've ever seen have astronomers utterly baffled
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Technology
Teaching AIs to make mistakes like kids would help them learn faster
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Environment
Climate change made Europe's heatwave at least five times more likely
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Life
Every single neuron in an animal mapped out for the first time
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Technology
Your boss could use your smartwatch to check your productivity levels
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