Technology
AI-powered smartphone cameras are changing the way we see reality
News
This week's magazine
16 March 2019
Issue 3221
On the cover
Editor's picks
Technology
To avert environmental disaster, we need to return to the trees
News
Health
Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health
Features
Technology
Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood
Features
Physics
The quantum world is infamously weird 鈥� now we might know why
Features
Table of contents
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Technology
Venezuela has suffered power blackouts for days
Many Venezuelans have had no power for nearly a week. The cause appears to be a fault at a hydropower plant that powers 80 per cent of the country
News
Physics
Stephen Hawking鈥檚 legacy will be honoured with a new 50p coin
News
Mind
Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government
News
Technology
UK and other EU countries ban Boeing 737 Max after Ethiopia crash
News
Environment
Greta Thunberg: Why I began the climate protests that are going global
News
Technology
Handheld device could detect CRISPR bioweapons before they spread
News
Humans
Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it
News
Technology
World-class Go-playing AI has learned to do really hard colouring-in
News
Technology
Russian military is building a flying vehicle with rotating paddles
News
Space
Black holes and lasers could let us cheat at interstellar travel
News
Environment
Ethnic minorities produce less pollution but are exposed to more
News
Environment
Hawkward! 鈥楨xpert鈥� birdwatchers misidentify common birds as rarities
News
Environment
Rain may be causing a worrying amount of ice to melt in Greenland
News
Space
It will be ‘snowing’ nitrogen on Pluto for the next century
News
Technology
The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images
News
Technology
Children can find inappropriate videos on YouTube in just 10 clicks
News
Life
Unique chimpanzee cultures are disappearing thanks to humans
News
Space
Jupiter could be cracking its moon Europa with powerful magnetic force
News
Health
A pill that mimics natural antibodies could fight many kinds of flu
News
Environment
‘Digital sobriety’ can halt tech-fuelled global warming, says report
News
Health
A temporary low-calorie diet may reduce inflammatory bowel disease
News
Life
Arsenic-munching caterpillars may ingest poison to prevent being eaten
News
Humans
Rabbit bones suggest Neanderthals were better hunters than we thought
News
Environment
Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe
News
Life
Ant larvae defend their homes by eating eggs laid by intruders
News
Analysis
Technology
AI-powered smartphone cameras are changing the way we see reality
Smartphone cameras now use artificial intelligence to completely transform the pictures we take, and it could change the way we see reality
News
Comment
We should cautiously welcome use of a form of ketamine for depression
News
Comment
Compensating for climate misdeeds can make you a worse carbon emitter
News
Health
What London鈥檚 police can learn from Glasgow鈥檚 approach to knife crime
News
Features
Health
Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health
For years we have been told to slather up or seek shade to avoid skin cancer. But now it is becoming clear that shunning the sun comes with its own health perils
Features
Technology
Our wooden future: making cars, skyscrapers and even lasers from wood
Features
Physics
The quantum world is infamously weird 鈥� now we might know why
Features
Culture
Technology
China’s great firewall and the war to control the internet
The West thinks China鈥檚 internet is all about firewalls and censorship, but as a new book shows, the battle for control is full of dubious motives
Culture
Earth
Don’t miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution
Culture
Technology
The mighty T. rex comes to terrifying life, complete with feathers
Culture
