Health Patchwork vaping regulation can show the way to a smoke-free world As the health consequences of vaping emerge from the fog, governments across the world are regulating e-cigarettes in different ways – and it won’t take long to see which works best News
Humans Traces of cannabis found in pre-modern human bones for the first time A 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy, has yielded the first archaeological evidence of cannabis's psychoactive components in human bones News
Environment How will we actually know when we pass 1.5°C of warming? It looks likely that the world will pass 1.5°C of warming in the 2030s, but current climate definitions would only make this failure official 10 years later, which could waste time in bringing temperatures back down News
Comment See the world's tropical forests illuminated in stunning new show A new exhibition in Paris showcases the diversity of tropical forests and their plants and animals through a series of majestic light installations Regulars
Technology The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world Artificial intelligence may never reach its full potential without a body to interact with the physical world. Roboticist Josh Bongard says that the push for “embodied AI” is suggesting a rethink of what it means to design intelligent robots Features
Comment The best science-inflected music of 2023 From Ashnikko to Hannah Diamond, our resident experts Bethan Ackerley and Tim Boddy round up the best music albums of 2023 - if science is your thing Culture
Life Why you don't need to bother raking up dead leaves from your lawn When the leaves start falling, we can spend hours removing them from our lawns. But leaving them where they are is often better for the grass, says James Wong Regulars
Pretend engine noises make electric cars more fun Feedback ponders that old philosophical question, what is reality, after discovering that Toyota has built an electric car with a fake transmission Regulars