Environment
When will the AMOC collapse? We don’t know, but should still prepare
News
This week's magazine
26 September 2026
Issue 3614
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Mind
Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain
Mice with half a brain experienced significant improvements in their cognition and movement when they received brain organoids made from human stem cells
News
Mind
Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged
News
Physics
Nuclear fusion experiment produces the brightest X-rays on Earth yet
News
Environment
Satellite data gives clearer picture of how ice sheets are losing mass
News
Health
Short bursts of exercise can boost your cognition
News
Physics
One of the fundamental forces is stronger than we thought
News
Life
Beautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century
News
Environment
女生小视频s call for 鈥榚mergency鈥� measures to save sea life from El Ni帽o
News
Health
LSD聽could be approved for anxiety in the US in 2027
News
Space
Asteroid hit the moon and flung rocks 120 kilometres from the crater
News
Physics
Physicists are scrambling to make sense of possible dark matter signal
News
Life
T. rex teeth show the enormous predatory dinosaur was warm-blooded
News
Humans
Ancient skeleton shows woman in imperial China had her nose amputated
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Technology
Jet-powered drones pose a new threat to Ukraine 鈥� can they be stopped?
News
Mind
Brain implant lets people with paralysis speak and gesture at the same time
News
Environment
Earth is getting less dusty 鈥� which is both good and bad
News
Life
Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools
News
Mind
Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health
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Mathematics
The Parthenon’s architectural illusions are a myth
News
Humans
Roman roads weren’t so straight after all
News
Life
Humpback whale mother with stillborn calf shows ‘grief-like’ behaviour
News
Space
Two bizarre new forms of ice discovered that could exist deep inside planets
News
Features
Environment
The collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it’s coming?
Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails 鈥� but when disaster will strike and how bad it will be remains uncertain. Now there is an ambitious plan to give us a warning
Features
Life
How ancient superbugs could help us fight antibiotic resistance
Features
Space
Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment
Features
Culture
Comment
Amazing complexity of Roman Britain comes alive in fresh new account
Ferdinand Addis's Conquest is a sweeping yet intimate narrative of the Roman invasion of Britain and its aftermath. It's a compelling read, finds Kelsey Hayes
Culture
Comment
Virginia Woolf adaptation is a bold look at women in astronomy
Culture
Comment
Don’t miss this tragic story of a family with a rare form of dementia
Culture
More
Space
The cosmic coincidences that made our universe 鈥� and us 鈥� possible
The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just right for life. Columnist Leah Crane wonders if it鈥檚 really all one big coincidence
Comment
Life
How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel
Comment
Tom Gauld: ‘Trust me, it’s safe’
Regulars
Twisteddoodles on how to make a cell look its very best
Regulars
Regulars
Comment
Researcher finds that cats lie around for a ridiculous amount of time
Feedback digs into important work done in New Zealand into the movements of cats, which found 鈥� to no one's great surprise 鈥� that their favourite activity is "lying", followed by "sitting"
Feedback
This Week’s Letters
Letters
What causes clothes to crease, and why does ironing remove them?
Last Word
What is an itch, and why can a simple touch calm it?
Last Word
What is the fastest way to empty a full jug of water?
Last Word
Why can鈥檛 we cool water as quickly as we can heat it? part 2
Last Word
Why do we feel emotional about fictional characters? part 2
Last Word
This week鈥檚 new questions
Last Word
