This week's magazine
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Head transplant mavericks must be scrutinised, not ignored
News
Physics
AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code
Features
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Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads
Features
Humans
Luther’s legacy: Did a religious revolt create science?
Features
Humans
Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe
Features
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Leaders
News
Space
Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
NASA has extended the mission of the Dawn probe around the icy dwarf planet Ceres. It will dip toward Ceres's surface and study its tenuous atmosphere
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Technology
Antivirus company counters spying claims by opening up its code
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WHO reverses decision to elect Robert Mugabe as ambassador
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Self-harming has risen dramatically among UK teenage girls
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Earth
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Humans
Twitter is tightening its rules around online sexual harassment
News
Humans
What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us
News
Earth
New York should prepare for 15-metre storm surges by 2300
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Chronic back pain stem cell treatment could cut need for opioids
News
Technology
A smart city in China tracks every citizen and yours could too
News
Physics
Possible exomoon may be an ocean-covered world as big as Saturn
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Marijuana compounds made in GM yeast could help epilepsy
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Environment
Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too
News
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Your autopilot mode is real – now we know how the brain does it
News
Environment
Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
News
How we could make oxygen on Mars, plus fuel to get home
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Environment
Robotic underwater miners can go where humans can’t
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Physics
Google’s quantum computing plans threatened by IBM curveball
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Earth
The mass extinction that might never have happened
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Physics
Dark energy survives neutron star crash test while rivals fail
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A home test kit may let you diagnose endometriosis years earlier
News
Environment
Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright
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Environment
Songbird gets angry when its rivals are brilliant at singing
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Hunger-blocking injection lets fat monkeys quickly lose weight
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A common herbal medicine may cause liver cancer mutations
News
Environment
Oysters can ‘hear’ the ocean even though they don’t have ears
News
Technology
An AI has learned how to pick a single voice out of a crowd
News
Space
Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work
News
Space
A gaggle of 7 moons keep Saturn’s rings from breaking apart
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Analysis
Earth
We all get poorer every time a climate disaster strikes
Long-term economic effects of global warming could be far greater than thought, making many countries poorer and hurting even those of us spared direct impacts
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Scotland has banned smacking children – so should everyone else
News
Physics
Why our ‘freakish’ galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried
News
Humans
Speaking up against sexual abuse is hard – #MeToo changes that
News
Features
Humans
Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe
We've lost faith in experts, but increasingly rely on strangers we meet online. Is it wise to replace long-evolved instincts at the click of a button?
Features
Humans
Luther’s legacy: Did a religious revolt create science?
Features
Physics
AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code
Features
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Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads
Features
Culture
Earth
Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe
Evidence of asteroid impacts and other extreme events on Earth can prove elusive. Michael Rampino reveals what he's found in his latest book
Culture
Humans
Science fiction picks sound wedding bells and other alarms
Culture
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Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way
Culture