Technology
Is tech racist? The fight back against digital discrimination
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This week's magazine
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Editor's picks
Earth
Done right, seabed mining could be environmentally friendly
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Earth
Are we ready for the gold rush on the sea floor?
Features
Life
You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human
Features
Space
How lasers found gravitational waves – and could hunt for aliens
Features
Earth
How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea
Features
Earth
Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Life
Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content
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Physics
First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics
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Life
Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises
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Health
Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells
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Technology
Baidu uses millions of users' location data to make predictions
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Physics
Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row
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Life
Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine
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Space
Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies
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Life
City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol
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Space
Mars rover Curiosity gets licence to shoot its laser at will
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Earth
Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth’s surface
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Humans
Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours
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Technology
Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity
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One Per Cent
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Earth
California’s fires force evacuation of people and exotic animals
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Space
Missing craters on Ceres may have been smoothed by a mud facial
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Life
Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive
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Health
Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10
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Space
Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea
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Technology
Amazon to begin UK delivery drone trials to make them safer
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Most powerful obesity gene found so far adds 1.5 to BMI scores
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Technology
How drones are learning to find their own way in the world
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Health
Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral
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Life
60 Seconds
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Health
CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA
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Space
Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end
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