Technology
Tech giants don’t want you fixing your phone. Time to fight back
News
This week's magazine
29 July 2017
Issue 3136
On the cover
Editor's picks
Earth
Taking back control must not mean a return to overfishing
News
Health
Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers
Features
Physics
The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space-time
Features
Humans
The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness
Features
Physics
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
Features
Table of contents
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Health
UK relaxes blood donation rules for gay men and sex workers
A review says blood screening tests are now accurate enough that gay men only need to abstain from sex for three months before giving blood
News
Earth
Yellowstone National Park hit by 1400 earthquakes in six weeks
News
Earth
Robot spots signs of melted fuel at submerged Fukushima reactor
News
Earth
Australia to expand commercial fishing in marine sanctuaries
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Toy drones can pose more danger to planes than commercial ones
News
Technology
Dark web crackdown as two biggest markets are taken offline
News
Health
Trump鈥檚 plan to cut global health research may cost US billions
News
Health
Lasers reactivate 鈥榣ost鈥� memories in mice with Alzheimer鈥檚
News
Environment
Fake duck test shows drones and AI beat humans at bird census
News
Life
Tides on exoplanets could drive alien biological clocks
News
Health
Stem cells in the brain’s hypothalamus help mice stay young
News
Health
Tiny robots swim the front crawl through your veins
News
Injectable PrEP could protect people at risk of contracting HIV
News
Environment
Mysterious mega-swan once waddled through New Zealand
News
Environment
Baby salmon with 鈥榦ld鈥� DNA more likely to survive epic migration
News
Technology
AI suggests recipe for a dish just by studying a photo of it
News
Health
Your eardrums move in sync with your eyes but we don鈥檛 know why
News
Technology
How the dark web’s gunrunners covertly ship US weapons to Europe
News
Health
Robot physical therapist helps people walk again after a stroke
News
Space
We could build a galactic internet but it may take 300,000 years
News
Life
Spider’s web uses optical illusion to lure nocturnal moths
News
Health
Adderall might improve your test scores 鈥� but so could a placebo
News
Life
First dogs may have been extremely sociable wolves
News
Earth
Earth’s underwater dunes help explain Venus’s weird surface
News
Environment
Mud eel’s wonky body may help it ambush prey
News
Technology
Bioinspired tube robot can sneak round corners and turn on taps
News
Environment
Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic
News
Health
Blood test detects Alzheimer鈥檚 plaques building up in brain
News
Analysis
Technology
Tech giants don’t want you fixing your phone. Time to fight back
Laws that would force gadget-makers to release repair manuals and tools are starting to win support, but meanwhile consumers are taking a DIY approach
News
Humans
Con artists took me for a ride. Here’s how to protect yourself
News
Earth
California climate case turns up the heat on fossil fuel giants
News
Environment
Now North Sea cod is sustainable, is it really ok to eat?
News
Features
Physics
The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space-time
The discovery of an exquisite geometric structure is forcing a radical rethink of reality, and could clear the way to a quantum theory of gravity
Features
Health
Awesome awe: The emotion that gives us superpowers
Features
Physics
Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives
Features
Humans
The fragility of you and what it says about consciousness
Features
Culture
Humans
Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past
While Thomas Piketty's bestseller fuelled a major rethink on economics and inequality, creating change is tough 鈥� and may depend on reimagining hunter-gatherer societies
Culture
Earth
Bringing our soil back to life with the latest in earth science
Culture
