Health Moral dilemma: should we reshape society because we can? Traditional values will not serve us well when it comes to debating the ethics of novel technologies such as self-driving cars. We need a new moral code News
Technology Nanocrystal night-vision specs will let you see in infrared Nanocrystals could aid night vision Fancy some glasses that switch to night vision when the sun goes down? Nanocrystals that turn infrared radiation into visible light could be just what you need. Night-vision binoculars are currently used by soldiers to track enemies in the dark, but are large and cumbersome. These devices detect infrared waves emitted by … News
Life Canadians are angry about their national bird, but they’re wrong Feathers flew when Canada's geographical society named the gray jay as its pick for national bird over the public choice, but it was spot on, says David Bird News
Life Headlight beetle's glowing path caught in time-lapse photo IT'S like a message scrawled in light. This time-lapse image, taken over 30 seconds in a Costa Rican cloud forest, shows a headlight beetle's meandering path along a leaf. The insect's "headlights" – two bioluminescent spots just behind its actual head (see image below) – gleam steadily as it wanders undisturbed, as does a third, … Regulars
Physics Antigravity: Discovering if antimatter falls upwards If anything fell upwards, it would rewrite physics textbooks. Amazingly fiddly experiments to test whether antimatter can do just this are kicking off Features
Humans The Turing Guide: Last words on an enigmatic codebreaker? An enormous and probably definitive guide to the life, times and genius of Alan Turing captures his extraordinary diversity for the first time Culture
Old Scientist: From '60s psychedelia to '90s dreaming New Scientist was swinging in 1966, hallucinating in 1976 and altogether more lucid in 1990 Regulars
Feedback: Cancer can be treated with herbal medicine, claims MP Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Regulars