Technology
How to build better sex robots: stop making them look human
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This week's magazine
Editor's picks
We need slow science to sow the seeds of future prosperity
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Physics
Magnets, boiling kettles and the secret code underlying reality
Features
Earth
The father of the Gaia hypothesis shares his greatest invention
Features
Health
How you can control what happens in your dreams
Features
Life
Slaughter of an American icon: The Yellowstone buffalo cull
Features
Health
Heal yourself from inside your dreams
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Space
NASA wants to put a lander on Europa’s surface to look for life
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Life
Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline
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Technology
AI learns to solve quantum state of many particles at once
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Space
Magnetic meteorites narrow down solar system’s birthdate
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Life
New beetle species bites army ant’s butt and hitches a ride
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Technology
How a raised hand from a pedestrian could stop driverless cars
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Life
Monkeys and dogs judge humans by how they treat others
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Health
Stinky armpits? Bacteria from a less smelly person can fix them
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Technology
Software helps musicians stop slouching by ruining their music
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Life
Foxes seen climbing trees at night to track down and eat koalas
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Life
400 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s ‘whale trap’ beach
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Earth
Secrets of Earth's birth carried in lava jets from planet's core
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Life
Deep-sea squid points a big, bulging eye up and a tiny eye down
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Earth
Australia's extreme heatwave is a preview of things to come
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Technology
Virtual reality weather add-ons let you feel the sun and wind
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Life
Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome
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Technology
NHS to start prescribing health apps that help manage conditions
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Health
Timing when you get pregnant could prevent a miscarriage
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Space
Mars landing sites for 2020 NASA mission down to the final three
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Health
Human genome editing shouldn’t be used for enhancement – yet
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Earth
Crews race to fix California dam before more rain falls
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60 Seconds
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Physics
Universes that spawn 'cosmic brains' should go on the scrapheap
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Health
Two new drug therapies might cure every form of tuberculosis
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