Technology
Elon Musk wants to turn our homes into one big power plant
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This week's magazine
10 March 2018
Issue 3168
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mind
We need to be mindful as we develop thought-reading tech
News
Humans
The real reason people talk over you, and what to do about it
Features
Life
I exposed how online profiling leaves us open to mass persuasion
Features
Environment
Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs
Features
Humans
Dark DNA: The missing matter at the heart of nature
Features
Earth
A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas
Features
Table of contents
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The global treatment plan helping to control the HIV epidemic
At the turn of the century, the best HIV therapies were available only in聽developed countries. Now, the increasingly global availability of powerful聽new treatments is helping to bring the HIV epidemic to heel
News
Health
Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time
News
Earth
Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands
News
Health
Doctors race to identify poison affecting former Russian spy
News
Health
Australia鈥檚 cervical cancer vaccine might eradicate the disease
News
Physics
Google’s 72-qubit chip is the largest yet
News
Physics
A twist in graphene lets you switch superconductivity on and off
News
Life
Fossil shows a parent caring for its young 520 million years ago
News
Health
We鈥檝e evolved to sleep less and that may be causing Alzheimer鈥檚
News
Technology
AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs in the code
News
Earth
A deadly predator could save the UK鈥檚 threatened red squirrels
News
Space
A mountain range on Saturn鈥檚 moon Iapetus may be a former ring
News
Space
We have found traces of the universe’s first ever stars
News
Humans
Surprise! Having a big brain really does mean having less muscle
News
Humans
Very creative people have a special kind of brain activity
News
Space
The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth
News
AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan
News
Fish called 鈥榮arcastic fringehead鈥� has a wider mouth than body
News
Technology
Automated dance teacher tells you when your moves are wrong
News
Health
Bacteria on our bodies may be protecting us from skin cancer
News
Humans
If you hate bad body odour, you’re more likely to support Trump
News
Earth
A weird underground plant has been rediscovered after 151 years
News
Humans
Biggest ever family tree shows when cousins stopped having sex
News
Space
We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus
News
Physics
Cars that run on supercapacitors could be charged in minutes
News
Analysis
Technology
Elon Musk wants to turn our homes into one big power plant
Tesla has already built a massive battery in Australia, and now plans to fit more in 50,000 homes to create the world's largest virtual power plant
News
Environment
Shock collars are a bad way to train dogs so let’s ban them
News
Health
Don’t hate all processed foods – they make modern life possible
News
Health
There may be five kinds of diabetes, not just types 1 and 2
News
Features
Humans
Dark DNA: The missing matter at the heart of nature
The discovery that some animals thrive despite hugely mutated DNA hidden in their genome is forcing us to rethink some basics of evolution
Features
Earth
A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas
Features
Humans
The real reason people talk over you, and what to do about it
Features
Environment
Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs
Features
Life
I exposed how online profiling leaves us open to mass persuasion
Features
