Health
Food, sex, drugs and more – are we addicted to addiction?
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?
Features
Health
Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments
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Environment
To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it
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Physics
Quantum to cosmos: Why scale is vital to our understanding of reality
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Physics
What are fractals and how can they help us understand the world?
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Environment
Will we get to net zero fast enough, and how will the climate respond?
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Life
Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
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Physics
How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity
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Space
Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?
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Physics
How quantum entanglement really works and why we accept its weirdness
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Mind
What neurodiversity means for psychiatrists and the people they help
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Technology
What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?
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Table of contents
Leaders
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Technology
AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice
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Humans
Nomads thrived in Greece after the collapse of the Roman Empire
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Environment
Around half the world could lose easily accessible groundwater by 2050
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Technology
VR headset can give you 360-degree vision like an owl
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Environment
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosystems as waters warm
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Technology
Buildings that include weak points on purpose withstand more damage
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Health
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage
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Physics
Sunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C
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Chemistry
Fragile quantum entanglement may survive chaos of chemical reactions
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Space
Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes
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Health
Heatwaves seem to be driving severe asthma flare-ups in children
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Life
Orchids feed their young through underground fungal connections
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Humans
A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt
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Health
Some brain injury patients would recover if life support weren't ended
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Life
World’s only lungless frog species actually does have lungs after all
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Health
Food 'addiction' should be treated like drug abuse, claim doctors
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Mathematics
Incredible maths proof is so complex that almost no one can explain it
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Environment
Solar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefs
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Analysis
Aperture
Features
Mind
What is thought and how does thinking manifest in the brain?
Features
Space
Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?
Features
Physics
How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity
Features
Environment
To rescue biodiversity, we need a better way to measure it
Features
Life
Quantum biology: New clues on how life might make use of weird physics
Features
Physics
What are fractals and how can they help us understand the world?
Features
Mind
What neurodiversity means for psychiatrists and the people they help
Features
Technology
What is artificial general intelligence, and is it a useful concept?
Features
Environment
Will we get to net zero fast enough, and how will the climate respond?
Features
Physics
How quantum entanglement really works and why we accept its weirdness
Features
Health
Why viewing cancer as an ecosystem could lead to better treatments
Features
Physics
Quantum to cosmos: Why scale is vital to our understanding of reality
Features
