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20 March 2021

Issue 3326

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Yes, the global finance system must reform to avert a climate disaster

Environment

Yes, the global finance system must reform to avert a climate disaster

News
Think yourself younger: Psychological tricks that can help slow ageing

Health

Think yourself younger: Psychological tricks that can help slow ageing

Features
Aircraft contrails are a climate menace. Can we rid the sky of them?

Technology

Aircraft contrails are a climate menace. Can we rid the sky of them?

Features
Mark Carney interview: Rethink capitalism to solve the climate crisis

Technology

Mark Carney interview: Rethink capitalism to solve the climate crisis

Features

Table of contents

Leaders

Yes, the global finance system must reform to avert a climate disaster

Environment

Yes, the global finance system must reform to avert a climate disaster

ESTABLISHING a good degree of pandemic resilience would have cost less than the economic output lost in just a single day of the covid-19 crisis. That missed opportunity is one indictment of market failings among many that former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney advances in our interview with him this …

News

News

Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever

Physics

Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever

Gravity is measured between two gold masses that are brought close to each other Physicists have measured the gravitational field of a smaller object than ever before, a gold sphere with a mass of about 90 milligrams. This could help us understand how gravity fits together with quantum mechanics on the smallest scales. We have …

News

Technology

A quantum trick with photons gives machine learning a speed boost

News

Environment

Wooden floors rotted by fungi generate electricity when walked on

News

Humans

DNA reveals ancient Croatian massacre was an indiscriminate killing

News

Health

People who have had covid-19 may only need one dose of vaccine

News

Humans

A Bronze Age queen was buried wearing a priceless silver crown

News

Life

Some Amazon jaguars have adapted to live in treetops to avoid flooding

News

Technology

AI can stop the cybersickness some people get when using VR headsets

News

Technology

Fire safety app simulates wildfires and shows a route to avoid them

News

Technology

AI helps assess pain levels in people with sickle cell disease

News

Technology

UK still using racially biased passport tool despite available update

News

Technology

Small device could warn you if you've been too still at your desk

News

Earth

One side of Earth's interior is losing heat much faster than the other

News

Earth

Signs that Earth was once almost entirely molten found in ancient rock

News

Life

Electric catfish cannot be shocked and scientists don’t know why

News

Space

Seven alien space rocks should pass through our solar system each year

News

Humans

Early humans may have turned to small game after wiping out big beasts

News

Technology

Robots increase the gender pay gap despite raising wages overall

News

Life

Altered bioelectric genes give zebrafish wings like flying fish

News

Life

Hibernating marmots don’t seem to age - could humans do the same?

News

Health

No indication AstraZeneca vaccine causes blood clots, says regulator

News

Humans

Mass graves in France belonged to opposing soldiers in medieval war

News

Health

US refuses to extend time between coronavirus vaccine doses

News

Health

UK variant looks set to cause a surge in global coronavirus cases

News

Analysis

Pollinators are our secret weapon in the fight against global warming

Life

Pollinators are our secret weapon in the fight against global warming

Pollinators have a critical, but largely unappreciated, role to play when it comes to climate change, says ecologist Jeff Ollerton

News

Technology

NFTs seem both a capitalist stunt and a great tool for digital art

News

Aperture

Thousands of starlings fly together to make an enormous bird

Life

Thousands of starlings fly together to make an enormous bird

This amazing photograph was taken by James Crombie in Ireland. It shows a murmuration of thousands of starlings acting like a single giant creature to confuse predators

Regulars

Features

Think yourself younger: Psychological tricks that can help slow ageing

Health

Think yourself younger: Psychological tricks that can help slow ageing

How old you feel matters for how long you will live. Here's how you can reduce your psychological age

Features

Technology

Aircraft contrails are a climate menace. Can we rid the sky of them?

Features

Technology

Mark Carney interview: Rethink capitalism to solve the climate crisis

Features

Culture

Back view of woman with long red hair wearing black coat and heeled boots standing on hillside looking at sunset over valley of city lights

Technology

Klara and the Sun review: Ishiguro's thought-provoking future for AI

Klara and the Sun is about a solar-powered robot As soon as I started reading Kazuo  Ishiguro ’s new novel,  Klara and the Sun , I fell into the warm and familiar embrace of his writing . As in Never Let Me Go , his 2005 novel about human clones raised as organ donors for …

Culture

Space

Elon Musk's SpaceX may have been one explosion away from going bust

Culture

Humans

Silk Road review: The true story of the dark web's illegal drug market

Culture

Humans

Don’t Miss: Omni-Man and his son in Invincible on Amazon Prime Video

Culture

More

What is the spring equinox and is it something worth celebrating?

Space

What is the spring equinox and is it something worth celebrating?

Do the spring and autumn equinoxes give us days and nights of the same length? It isn't so simple, says Abigail Beall in this month's Stargazing column

Regulars

Puzzle #105: Can you figure out the correct colour code?

Regulars

Tom Gauld has a short housekeeping announcement

Regulars

Twisteddoodles' on when research doesn't float your boat

Regulars

Regulars

Is it time for brutalist architecture on the moon?

Humans

Is it time for brutalist architecture on the moon?

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

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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