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Wish you had a shorter workday? Here’s why that’s a bad idea
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This week's magazine
13 May 2017
Issue 3125
On the cover
Editor's picks
Life
You bet 鈥� an intellectual wager can focus our attention
News
Health
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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Technology
Citymapper launches an experimental London bus route
Using live traffic updates from its data centre, the bus service will adjust its routes to be more flexible than existing public transport
News
Space
NASA rocket mission takes 1500 sun images in just 5 minutes
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Health
Minnesota measles outbreak follows anti-vaccination campaign
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Earth
Increased cancer rate in US linked to bad environment
News
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News
Earth
Industry experts may replace dismissed EPA advisory scientists
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Earth
UK government subsidises coal sector with 拢356 million a year
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Earth
UK’s plan to clean up its air is still inadequate, critics say
News
Technology
AI detective analyses police data to learn how to crack cases
News
Humans
Meet 鈥楴eo鈥�, the most complete skeleton of Homo naledi ever found
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Health
A little cannabis every day might keep brain ageing at bay
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Life
Parasitic robot controls turtle it鈥檚 riding by giving it snacks
News
Humans
Fake football website reveals what makes us become nasty trolls
News
Physics
Nanofridge could keep quantum computers cool enough to calculate
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Environment
Menopause-causing bait is curbing rat populations in New York
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Space
First results from Jupiter probe show huge magnetism and storms
News
Life
Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work
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Technology
Lasers print ultra high-res images narrower than a human hair
News
Earth
Map of the underworld may let us play plate tectonics in reverse
News
Technology
Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects
News
Health
Man dreams in colour for first time during cancer radiotherapy
News
Earth
Snowball Earth melting led to freshwater ocean 2 kilometres deep
News
Space
Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun
News
Health
The energy generators inside our cells reach a sizzling 50掳C
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Technology
Bionic hand that can see for itself makes things easy to grasp
News
Health
Fukushima accident gave everyone an X-ray鈥檚 worth of radiation
News
Life
Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour
News
Space
Martian life must be rare as free energy source remains untapped
News
Health
Electrode can tell you if a baby is really experiencing pain
News
Analysis
Health
Wish you had a shorter workday? Here’s why that’s a bad idea
There鈥檚 nothing like a bank holiday to make you wish you worked less, and productivity researchers are starting to agree. But reduced hours might add to your stress
News
Life
Let’s seek traces of ancient indigenous ETs in our own backyard
News
Humans
Would a North Korean space nuke really lay waste to the US?
News
Health
A small class-action lawsuit could stop the US opioid epidemic
News
Features
Life
Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind
If we ask what consciousness is for, and why it evolved, we may get closer to understanding the nature of our own minds as well as those of other animals
Features
Humans
Ready for anything: The best strategies to survive a disaster
Features
Health
Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Features
Health
Fear is a killer: Nuclear expert reveals radiation’s real danger
Features
