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Mind

Police body cams were meant to keep us safer. Are they working?

body cam

Humans

A world where cameras are always on may make us less human

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Physics

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun’s missing matter

Koltsov

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia’s genetics revolution

cancer nerves

Health

Getting on cancer鈥檚 nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours

Beetle

Environment

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

Table of contents

Leaders

body cam

Humans

A world where cameras are always on may make us less human

The spread of body cams and smartphones could change who we are by stifling our natural impulse to gossip, misbehave and do really embarrassing stuff

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Piccadilly Circus

Technology

Huge Piccadilly Circus screen will target ads at certain cars

A vast electronic display in London's Piccadilly Circus will use cameras to watch nearby cars and target certain models with certain ads

US Affordable Care Act dealt two blows by President Trump

Earth

Air pollution blamed for 500,000 early deaths in Europe in 2014

60 Seconds

Technology

Google and Apple yet to fix Wi-Fi hole in a billion devices

Earth

How to clean up the dirty water Puerto Ricans are drinking

Earth

Ophelia shows many hurricanes could reach Europe in the future

Physics

Gravitational waves have let us see huge neutron stars colliding

Technology

AlphaGo’s AI upgrade gets round the need for human input

Humans

Online dating may be breaking down society鈥檚 racial divisions

Physics

Roadside barrier that folds like origami blocks traffic noise

Health

Four brain genes help explain obsessive compulsive disorder

Humans

Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash

Humans

Gene study shows human skin tone has varied for 900,000 years

Health

Women don鈥檛 need to 鈥榮witch off鈥� to climax, orgasm study shows

Earth

A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years

Environment

Blind cave fish lost eyes by unexpected evolutionary process

Physics

How to beat the bookies by turning their odds against them

Health

Sperm age calculator tells men how decrepit their sperm are

Physics

We can finally map the spiral arm on the far side of the galaxy

Health

Skin-tight exoskeleton is worn like Spanx and lets you turn left

Health

Caesarean sections cause obesity and microbiome changes in mice

Environment

Female dolphins have weaponised their vaginas to fend off males

Environment

Male chimpanzee seen snatching seconds-old chimp and eating it

Life

We鈥檝e drawn iconic sail-wearing Dimetrodon wrong for 100 years

Space

Distant dwarf planet near Pluto has a ring that no one expected

Health

Most versatile stem cell ever may help us understand miscarriage

Analysis

Front cover of Iranian newspaper reporting Trump's decision

Humans

Trump鈥檚 U-turn may see Iran join North Korea as a nuclear state

In refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump risks creating another North Korea 鈥� as another Republican president did before him

Mind

Police body cams were meant to keep us safer. Are they working?

Physics

It was always crazy to shoot for Mars before colonising the moon

Humans

Hoovering up immigrants’ social media data won’t make US safer

Health

Sex addiction isn鈥檛 an illness, treating it as one is a bad idea

Aperture

Environment

Butchery of a black rhino wins Wildlife Photographer award

The winner of 2017鈥檚 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards captures the plight of rhinos, more than 1000 of which are slaughtered yearly for their horn.

Features

hole sun main

Physics

Hiding in plain sight: The mystery of the sun’s missing matter

A mass equivalent to 1500 Earths has vanished from the sun. Tracking it down could transform how we see the stars

Health

Getting on cancer鈥檚 nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours

Environment

Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

Life

The bourgeois biologist who sparked Russia’s genetics revolution

Culture

bioinformation

Health

Too much information? The data-driven future of health

Ever more bioinformation is readily available through tracking devices and databases 鈥� but does it risk getting up too close and personal, asks a new book

The Farthest: How the Voyager story keeps on giving

Humans

Is evolution about chance or fate? Well, it depends

More

great war

Health

Broken faces of the Great War

Men who became guinea pigs for cosmetic surgery are to be recognised with a memorial in the UK

Regulars

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Feedback: This gadget promises air from your own private tree

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more

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