ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

This week's magazine

7 May 2016

Issue 3072

New Scientist issue 3072 cover
Previous issue Next issue
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Mars lander

Space

SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet

News
explosion

Humans

Let's hope crowdsourcing will reveal the truth about Gaza attack

News
LIGO 1

Space

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

Features
Eyal Weizman

Technology

The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness

Features
Beluga whale

Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

Features
swansong earth

Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

shadow

Technology

If Google has nothing to hide about NHS data, why so secretive?

Google's subsidiary DeepMind could use our health data to diagnose disease sooner. If it was more open, we might be happier to let it go ahead

News

Humans

Let's hope crowdsourcing will reveal the truth about Gaza attack

News

News

Makemake shining brightly, with a small, faint blob just above it and a big arrow pointing to it

Space

Never-before-seen moon spotted around dwarf planet Makemake

Makemake's newly found moon   There's another moon in the Kuiper belt . Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a never-before-seen satellite around the distant dwarf planet Makemake - despite the fact that we've looked before. "It's been 11 years since Makemake was discovered, almost to the day," says Alex Parker of the …

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Sperm-binding beads could work as fertility aid or contraceptive

News

Humans

Map of the brain's word filing system could help us read minds

News

Life

Lizard gets to grips with city life by evolving stickier feet

News

Technology

Nimble-fingered robot hands could help clean up nuclear waste

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Your choice of chocolate and contraceptive affect your gut bugs

News

Earth

Kingdom-busting volcanoes linked to the rise of the Roman Empire

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Coma brain scans predict if a person will ever recover awareness

News

Space

Japanese satellite's death spiral linked to software malfunction

News

Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

News

Technology

Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

News

Space

Trio of Earth-sized planets around nearby star could reveal life

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Ebola virus does a total shutdown to hide before a fresh strike

News

Environment

Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener

News

Earth

Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

News

Strange Manx comet is time capsule from the early solar system

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Let people most affected by gene editing write CRISPR rules

News

One Per Cent

News

Technology

From autism to Chinese, a headset to help you with your language

News

Life

Australia to destroy alien carp by releasing herpes into rivers

News

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

News

Technology

Australian entrepreneur struggles to prove he is Bitcoin's daddy

News

60 Seconds

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Having an overactive immune system may prime you for depression

News

Space

Was gravitational wave signal from a gravastar, not black holes?

News

Space

Unexplained plume over Mars could be caused by solar outburst

News

Analysis

An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

Life

An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

The great greening may not be so great Half our planet's vegetated surface has become significantly greener in the past three decades. Plants in many regions – from stocky shrubs of the Arctic to towering trees of the rainforest canopy – are growing more and bigger leaves, according to the latest evidence. Leaf for leaf, it's …

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Equally long lives for rich and poor? This dream is in retreat

News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ

Muscular dystrophy is tragic, but patients aren't always right

News

Space

SpaceX Mars mission is a chance to hunt for life on the planet

News

Aperture

Life

Great hammerhead shark caught in nature's superstar photoshoot

Best known for his shots of film stars, photographer Michael Muller has turned his lens on the A-listers of the sea: great white and hammerhead sharks

Regulars

Features

Beluga whale

Life

Drowning in sound? The sad case of the baby beluga whales

The white whales of the Arctic are among the most vocal of all marine mammals – newborns even babble like human babies. Could this be their undoing?

Features

Technology

The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness

Features

Earth

Last days of Earth: Life in 7 billion years AD

Features

Space

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

Features

Culture

human and dog skeletons

Life

Lovely bones: Fascinating skeletons of the past and present

From appreciating the machine-like qualities of the human body to resurrecting long-extinct creatures, two books about bones make colourful reading

Culture

Culturelab

Follow the life of the last man on the moon

Space

Follow the life of the last man on the moon

Eugene Cernan's career was by any measure a triumph but a new profile spares a thought for the people left in his wake  

CultureLab

Technology

Can two new books save the internet from its own success?

CultureLab

More

ice caves

Last days of Earth: Timeline to the end of everything

The first living molecules appeared 3.8 billion years ago and on current estimates, the last cells will be snuffed out in another 3 billion years. Along the way, several factors could have huge consequences for what survives and where

no-section

Regulars

3D make up

Feedback: Prismatic makeup paints you in best possible light

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop