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23 November 2024

Issue 3518

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2XMXH3D London, UK. 30th July 2024. UK Weather: Heatwave sunset over St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge ends a warm Tuesday. The UK may have its hottest day of the year so far, as temperatures are expected to top 30C (86F) today. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News

Environment

Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change

Comment
Sunset / sunrise of Silhouette Shanghai skyline of Historical architecture and modern skyscraper on the bund of Shanghai city with Smog lies in misty fog, China

Environment

Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

Features
The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

Physics

The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

Features
Liverpool fans jostle for a look at the on-field VAR screen at Anfield stadium

Technology

The real reason VAR infuriates football fans and how to fix it

Features

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Leaders

2XMXH3D London, UK. 30th July 2024. UK Weather: Heatwave sunset over St. Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge ends a warm Tuesday. The UK may have its hottest day of the year so far, as temperatures are expected to top 30C (86F) today. Credit: Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News

Environment

Mayors are the leaders we need to help fight climate change

By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban centres - that's just one reason why mayors will be essential to addressing the climate crisis, making vital adaptations to cities to make them more bearable in a warming world

Comment

News

Multiple shots from above of a car drifting round a corner

Technology

Watch autonomous cars do doughnuts and drift sideways round corners

Driverless cars can now do doughnuts and drift like stunt drivers, skidding sideways around corners while maintaining control, which might help the cars recover from dangerous situations

News

Technology

AI models work together faster when they speak their own language

News

Space

Our only visit to Uranus came at an unusual time for the planet

News

Environment

Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700

News

Life

How a single gopher restored a landscape devastated by a volcano

News

Mind

There's a new twist on the famous invisible gorilla psychology study

News

Physics

Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them

News

Environment

Drought, fires and fossil fuels push CO2 emissions to a record high

News

Environment

World’s largest coral is 300 years old and was discovered by accident

News

Life

Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS

News

Environment

Sweeter tomatoes are coming soon thanks to CRISPR gene editing

News

Health

Mounting evidence points to air pollution as a cause of eczema

News

Humans

12,000-year-old stones may be oldest example of wheel-like tools

News

Health

Weight-loss medications may also ease chronic pain

News

Space

A unique pair of galactic lenses may help solve a cosmological riddle

News

Space

Twin spacecraft will launch to create an artificial solar eclipse

News

Environment

COP29 host Azerbaijan faces climate disaster as Caspian Sea dries up

News

Health

Evidence is growing that microbes in your mouth contribute to cancer

News

Environment

Satellites spot methane leaks – but ‘super-emitters’ don’t fix them

News

Environment

Countries are cheating their way to net zero by overrelying on forests

News

Space

See the sun revealed in stunning glory by Solar Orbiter pictures

News

Analysis

Technology

Australia wants to ban social media for under-16s, but it won't work

Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good

News

Aperture

Images contain stitched photos to create a panorama. Top: Historical panorama image from the Norwegian Polar Institute from 1967 (reference n. NP051261), shows the glaciers Kongsbreen and Kronobreen merging and surrounding Colleth??gda Island, outside Ny ??lesund, Svalbard. Bottom: Panorama image taken from the same position by photographer Christian Aslund on the 24th August 2024. Greenpeace has commissioned photographer Christian Aslund to continue a project he began in 2002 - to carry out visual research of glaciers in Svalbard and document their retreat over time. While sailing aboard the Greenpeace vessel ???Witness???, Aslund revisited glaciers he first documented in 2002 as well as photographing others, new to this project. The Arctic has been warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, due to

Environment

Striking photos highlight the stark reality of Arctic glacier melt

A pair of photos, taken nearly six decades apart, reveals dramatic ice loss in the Arctic linked to climate change

Regulars

Features

Liverpool fans jostle for a look at the on-field VAR screen at Anfield stadium

Technology

The real reason VAR infuriates football fans and how to fix it

The controversies surrounding football’s video assistant referee (VAR) system highlight our troubled relationship with uncertainty – and point to potential solutions

Features

Environment

Extreme heat is now making cities unlivable. How can we survive it?

Features

Physics

The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

Features

Culture

2XXTC85 Fish Farm on Sea, Hatchery Fishing, Greece Aquaculture, Marine Fish Farm. Sea fish farm cages and fishing nets, farming fish, with marine landscape an

Environment

Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw

How to Feed the World, Vaclav Smil's "big numbers" book about future food supply, fails to address the impact of climate change

Culture

Health

Could brain freezing cure all disease – indirectly?

Culture

Society

×îÐÂÂ鶹ÊÓƵ recommends cooperative board game Sammu-ramat

Culture

Space

This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant

Culture

More

2AFX2PH aerial view of Allerton Waste Recovery Park, on the A1(M) near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK

Environment

Putting food waste in the bin felt wrong until I learned where it went

When I moved back to York, UK, I was shocked by its garbage system, with limited recycling and no composting. But a bit of digging showed its brilliance, says Graham Lawton

Comment

Mathematics

How Fibonacci numbers give us a neat hack for converting between units

Regulars

BrainTwister #47: Squares and circles

Regulars

Society

Our trust in society is eroding. We need to fight back

Comment

Twisteddoodles: if science talks were like videos on social media

Regulars

Tom Gauld on experimenting with unusual materials

Regulars

Regulars

Is this the pettiest it is possible to be in an academic article?

Is this the pettiest it is possible to be in an academic article?

Feedback is in awe of the authors of a new study in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and how they handled requests from peer reviewers

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Letters

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