Be wary of evidence saying tracked employees are best
Opinion
This week's magazine
18 October 2014
Issue 2991
Editor's picks
Earth
What would a world without fossil fuels look like?
Features
Environment
We can stop the extinction of nature’s ‘walking dead’
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Getting started
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Hardware
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Apps
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Buy one today
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
快猫短视频
Space
Secret US spaceplane lands after 674-day mission
What was it doing up there? A robotic, top secret US spaceplane landed in California on Friday, after a record-breaking 22 months in orbit
News
Australia prime minister to chair new science council
News
Health
Stem cells improve vision enough for horse riding
News
Earth
Pentagon warns the US military of climate change
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Cancer code aims to nudge Europeans into avoiding risks
News
Earth
Will we still be swimming in the sea in 2100?
News
Earth
5 reasons to worry about a quagga mussel invasion
News
Prosthetic hand recreates feeling of cotton bud touch
News
Health
Ebola deaths to peak in places before vaccine is ready
News
Life
Extinct giant kangaroos didn’t hop, they walked
News
Health
Lung cancer’s long hibernation may be its weak spot
News
Metal solves mystery of flames that inspired Homer
News
Physics
Two new strange and charming particles appear at LHC
News
Space
First Mars settlers may last only 68 days
News
Poisonous frogs safe to sing聽longer and louder
News
Space
Software will let spacecraft find water on planets
News
Health
Absent tots give early alarm on disease
News
Physics
Desktop sonic black hole emits Hawking radiation
News
Earth
Australia’s toad vanguard hops straight to invade fast
News
Mini MRI to check bone health on space station
News
Space
Lunar volcanoes suggest the moon may still be warm
News
Earth
Fish love skyscraper-style living under oil platforms
News
Technology
Violins evolved by Stradivarian design
News
Technology
Fly in the face of danger with first-person drone view
News
Technology
Wearable tech lets boss track your work, rest and play
News
Technology
One per cent
News
Technology
Light beacons let map app talk to blind people
News
Opinion
Europe’s new scientific revolution
It鈥檚 great to see scientists across the continent protesting in unison about funding and jobs, says the editor of a website exploring European research issues
Opinion
Health
Ebola could never spread widely here. Could it?
Opinion
Health
A heroic family fight against paralysis
Opinion
Atul Gawande: Aim for a good life, not a good death
Opinion
Features
Earth
What would a world without fossil fuels look like?
Our advanced civilisation is built on easily exploited coal, oil and gas. 快猫短视频 explores an alternative history that holds lessons for us all
Features
Environment
We can stop the extinction of nature’s ‘walking dead’
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Getting started
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Hardware
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Apps
Features
Technology
Quantum computer buyers’ guide: Buy one today
Features
Culture
Humans
Why language is neither an instinct nor innate
The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans's book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct
Culture
Life
Could this bee love? Rekindling our affection for bees
Culture
Health
A smell-defying mystery to savour
Culture
