Technology
Our obsession with a ‘free’ internet led to Facebook data row
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This week's magazine
7 April 2018
Issue 3172
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
Touching personal medical stories are no substitute for science
News
Humans
Culture clash: Why are some societies strict and others lax?
Features
Life
Biology’s moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life
Features
Health
How medicine got too good for its own good
Features
Physics
I’m building a machine that breaks the rules of reality
Features
Table of contents
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How better behaviour is helping to build better businesses
When entire industries treat customers badly, their business is all but broken. That has created huge opportunities, says Simon Rogerson
News
Technology
Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts
News
Health
Ten 鈥榦ne-stop shop鈥� cancer diagnosis centres planned for England
News
Earth
Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage
News
Technology
Robots won’t take as many of our jobs as we feared, says report
News
Space
Chinese space station Tiangong-1 has finally fallen from the sky
News
Health
Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents
News
Technology
Bursting your Twitter bubble actually makes you more extreme
News
Humans
DNA from another mystery human ancestor lingers in some people
News
Space
Far-off black hole appears to be shredding and devouring a star
News
Environment
GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature
News
Environment
Dog brain scans show if they are looking at a happy or sad face
News
Health
Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads
News
Earth
Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef
News
Humans
Syncing our brain activity may help us interact with each other
News
We鈥檝e spotted a weird galaxy that鈥檚 missing all its dark matter
News
Health
Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations
News
Earth
The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease
News
Space
Jupiter’s hefty twin found just 12 light years away
News
Technology
Horror VR game can ramp up the fear factor if you鈥檙e not scared
News
Technology
Millions of YouTube product reviews may flout advertising rules
News
Health
Autoimmune disorder lupus may be triggered by body鈥檚 bacteria
News
Environment
How birds focus even with eyes on opposite sides of their heads
News
Space
Gooey nitrogen ice may make Pluto鈥檚 crater-free heart look young
News
Earth
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
News
Earth
Refusing to accept GM food is safe is like climate change denial
News
Analysis
Technology
Our obsession with a ‘free’ internet led to Facebook data row
If you鈥檙e not paying, you鈥檙e the product, so the saying goes. It's time to re-evaluate our pact with the tech giants that has driven the market in our data
News
Humans
China’s reckless attitude to space debris needs to change
News
Health
Novichok attack tests the world’s chemical weapons treaty
News
Features
Physics
I’m building a machine that breaks the rules of reality
We thought only fools messed with the cast-iron laws of thermodynamics 鈥� but quantum trickery is rewriting the rulebook, says physicist Vlatko Vedral
Features
Humans
Culture clash: Why are some societies strict and others lax?
Features
Life
Biology’s moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life
Features
Health
How medicine got too good for its own good
Features
