Technology
Incognito mode: the battle for privacy in a world of face recognition
News
This week's magazine
15 September 2018
Issue 3195
Editor's picks
Physics
The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?
News
Health
The surprising foods that are messing with your gut
Features
Chemistry
Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness
Features
Environment
Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
Features
Technology
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid
Features
Health
Is your microbiome making you sick?
Features
Table of contents
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Health
Alcohol advisers threaten to quit health body due to industry links
Two advisers to Public Health England have said they may quit their roles at the health agency after it partnered with a charity funded by the drinks industry
News
Environment
Next round of Paris climate talks hits sticking points
News
Environment
Governor of California orders state to go carbon neutral by 2045
News
Environment
Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered
News
Humans
World鈥檚 first drawing is a red crayon doodle made 73,000 years ago
News
Physics
Antimatter seen in two places at once thanks to quantum experiment
News
Technology
Humans, not bots, spread Twitter conspiracies after Parkland shooting
News
Humans
Volcanic eruption may have helped drive real-life hobbits extinct
News
Space
Japan wants people to virtually embody avatars orbiting in space
News
Physics
After the cat: Celebrating Schr枚dinger鈥檚 75-year influence on biology
News
Technology
Google’s AI hate speech detector is easily fooled by a few typos
News
Environment
Moose and sheep pass down their migration routes through culture
News
Health
We’ve cracked the brain’s emotion code and it may help depression
News
Physics
Glass box of atomic vapour could work as a James-Bond-style spy radio
News
Environment
Filling Sahara with solar and wind farms would double local rainfall
News
Physics
Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3m Breakthrough prize for pulsars discovery
News
Earth
Global warming is melting glaciers and that means more tsunamis
News
Technology
Reddit鈥檚 megapixel masterpiece illustrates how culture evolves
News
Humans
A huge water-powered factory helped make food for Roman sailors
News
Space
Jupiter has a Great Blue Spot too, thanks to its weird magnetic field
News
Technology
Watch this bat-inspired robot use sound to navigate and spot plants
News
Health
Probiotics are mostly useless and can actually hurt you
News
Life
Butcherbird uses vicious whiplash technique to kill its prey
News
Life
We’ve discovered a shark that eats plants as a side dish to shellfish
News
Analysis
Technology
Incognito mode: the battle for privacy in a world of face recognition
Face recognition technology has rapidly found its way into modern society, from policing to shopping. Is it too late to hold back the tide?
News
Comment
Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?
News
Did someone deliberately sabotage the International Space Station?
News
Features
Chemistry
Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness
Unorthodox chemist Lee Cronin is leading a radical quest to use chemistry to explain consciousness and create artificial life
Features
Health
The surprising foods that are messing with your gut
Features
Health
Is your microbiome making you sick?
Features
Environment
Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia
Features
Technology
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid
Features
Culture
Our ruined Earth and its climate nightmare find new voice in poetry
A world in environmental crisis needs all the help it can get from the arts. Poetry may be the ideal medium for expressing our unease at an endangered world
Culture
Humans
Don鈥檛 Miss: Outlandish shrinks, deadly weapons and automated lies
Culture
Humans
Why our sense of disgust both makes and undermines our legal systems
Culture
Humans
North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller
Culture
