Life
Wish you had a shorter workday? Here's why that's a bad idea
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This week's magazine
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
When it comes to work, we should value quality over quantity
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Life
Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Features
Health
Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation's real danger
Features
Life
Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind
Features
Humans
Ready for anything: The best strategies to survive a disaster
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
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Earth
Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse
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Technology
Bionic hand that can see for itself makes things easy to grasp
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Health
Electrode can tell you if a baby is really experiencing pain
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Life
Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work
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Space
First results from Jupiter probe show huge magnetism and storms
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Life
The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50°C
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Space
Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped
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Life
Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour
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Life
Man dreams in colour for first time during cancer radiotherapy
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Technology
Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects
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Health
Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray’s worth of radiation
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Earth
Increased cancer rate in US linked to bad environment
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Life
Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York
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Earth
UK's plan to clean up its air is still inadequate, critics say
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Technology
Lasers print ultra high-res images narrower than a human hair
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Space
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
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Technology
Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate
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Earth
UK government subsidises coal sector with £356 million a year
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Health
A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay
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Technology
Fake football website reveals what makes us become nasty trolls
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Humans
Meet ‘Neo’, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found
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Life
Parasitic robot controls turtle it’s riding by giving it snacks
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Earth
Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists
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Health
Minnesota measles outbreak follows anti-vaccination campaign
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Space
NASA rocket mission takes 1500 sun images in just 5 minutes
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Technology
Citymapper launches an experimental London bus route
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60 Seconds
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Technology
AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases
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Earth
Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep
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