It's time we turned social networks into real communities
Opinion
This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Life
The cat made me do it: Is your pet messing with your mind?
Features
Technology
Antisocial media: How Facebook is helping us to be nicer
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: Can you fly without the footprint?
Features
Earth
Guilty pleasures: How to live your microlives to the full
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you ease the effects of drinking too much?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Is there a safer way to soak up the sun?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What are the real risks of taking drugs?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Just how bad is social smoking?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you party all night and not pay tomorrow?
Features
Technology
Guilty pleasures: When is it wise to switch off your screen?
Features
Life
Guilty pleasures: Can you make a convincing liar?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How much chocolate can your body handle?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What's the cost of being a couch potato?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How often can you eat a juicy steak?
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Health
Bowel screening to become less of a pain in the backside
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Space
US SPACE Act extends easy ride for commercial space ventures
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Life
Inside Obama's plan to use open data to curb police brutality
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Technology
Solar-cell thread heralds promise of wearable chargers
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Technology
One Per Cent
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Technology
Machines are about to start making their own beautiful music
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Technology
New Ugandan radio stations run on sun, smartphones and buckets
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Why we should all seek out awesome experiences
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Health
Fetal cells injected into a man's brain to cure his Parkinson's
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Earth
Win-win deal helps avoid war over Ethiopia's $5 billion Nile dam
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Space
Spacecraft built from graphene could run on nothing but sunlight
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Environment
Ancient DNA suggests dogs split from wolves 40,000 years ago
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Space
Dust from asteroid mining spells danger for satellites
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Life
Artificial DNA links up just like the real thing
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60 Seconds
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Technology
Record smashed at LHC as machine limbers up for its second run
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Earth
Wild weather across US and Mexico a sign of El Niño's return
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Life
Mystery disease claims half world population of saiga antelopes
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Technology
Brain implant that decodes intention will let us probe free will
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Life
New species of early human was Lucy's neighbour in Africa
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Health
Forget colour overlays – dyslexia is not a vision problem
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Earth
North American ragweed to bring autumn allergy misery to Europe
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Health
'Vaccine' stops mice feeling stress – but should people take it?
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Opinion
Aperture
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Is there a safer way to soak up the sun?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What are the real risks of taking drugs?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Just how bad is social smoking?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: Can you party all night and not pay tomorrow?
Features
Technology
Guilty pleasures: When is it wise to switch off your screen?
Features
Life
Guilty pleasures: Can you make a convincing liar?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How much chocolate can your body handle?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: What's the cost of being a couch potato?
Features
Health
Guilty pleasures: How often can you eat a juicy steak?
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