Health Focusing on health rather than disease will make us all feel better There is a revolution taking place in our understanding of healthcare, and it is shifting priorities towards maintaining health before we ever need to wrestle with illness News
Mind We may finally know which brain cells cause motion sickness Researchers have identified neurons in mice that influence whether the animals experience motion sickness, which could lead to new ways of preventing the condition in humans News
Environment Cannabis has a shocking environmental cost – here's how to fix it Growing cannabis can consume astonishingly large amounts of electricity and water, as well as damage ecosystems, but it doesn't have to be that way News
Space Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book From Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface to the first US spacewalk by Ed White, Tim Peake updates the story of “ordinary people doing extraordinary jobs” Regulars
Health Are you truly healthy? These new tests provide the ultimate check-up Conventional measures like blood pressure and body mass index only tell you so much. Testing your microbiome and metabolites, or even discovering your “immune grade”, can offer a clearer picture of your health Features
Comment Crossings review: How to help wildlife live with motorways From Brazil to the Netherlands, motorway builders are starting to take wildlife into account, but the effort must be global. Ben Goldfarb's beautifully crafted Crossings is a wake-up call Culture
Life Debunking gardening myths: Does misting your houseplants really work? We are all told to mist our houseplants if we want them to thrive. But botanist James Wong failed to find a single study backing this up, so he did his own home-grown experiment Regulars
Hair-raising research explores the north-south divide on your scalp Researchers hint that the prevalence of counterclockwise hair whorls in people living in the southern hemisphere could be down to environmental factors - the Coriolis force, perhaps? Regulars