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Technology

Forget killer robots: This is the future of supersmart machines

Technology

Why you should worry about intelligent machines

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Humans

Find your meaning at work: 6 things a salary can’t buy

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Humans

What happens if we pay everyone just to live?

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

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Humans

Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives?

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Humans

The world’s oldest paycheck was cashed in beer

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Health

Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

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Humans

Don’t give up the day job: Why going to work is good for you

Table of contents

Leaders

Technology

Why you should worry about intelligent machines

Artificial intelligence itself isn't a problem 鈥� the threat lies in what humans might do with it

News

Pro abortion protesters in Brazil

Health

Zika virus prompts increase in unsafe abortions in Latin America

Early signs suggest the fallout from Zika includes a rise in illegal and unsafe abortions throughout Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela

Space

Comet perfume captures Rosetta probe’s whiff of comet 67P

Health

A yellow fever epidemic has hit central Africa. Is Asia next?

Health

WADA report shows tricks Russian athletes use to skip drug tests

Earth

Activists could force UK to clean its air 鈥� if it remains in EU

60 Seconds

Space

China wants to share its new space station with the world

Humans

Freeze on gun research thaws a little as California opens center

Health

Hundreds of genes seen sparking to life two days after death

Earth

Race to save hidden treasures under threat from climate change

Space

LIGO black hole pair may be stars that lived and died together

Environment

Microbial mass extinctions were kicked off by human evolution

Earth

Cont-roo-ception: Hormone implants bring kangaroos under control

Health

Microbubbles open brain’s barrier to make chemo more effective

Space

Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants鈥� clutches

Environment

Back-stabbing butterflies rob the ants that once protected them

Physics

Nearly naked black hole lost its ‘clothes’ to a gravity rip tide

Earth

Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed

Health

High-fibre diet may protect against peanut allergy

Environment

Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases

Health

鈥楧aisy-chain鈥� gene drive vanishes after only a few generations

Health

‘Stomach tap’ to let obese people empty their gut after eating

Technology

3D-printed phones herald world of instant electronic everything

Technology

NATO says the internet is now a war zone 鈥� what does that mean?

Technology

Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries

One Per Cent

Technology

US Air Force plans to pluck dangerous drones out of the skies

Like no other place on Earth

Analysis

TV screens showing Go match

Technology

Forget killer robots: This is the future of supersmart machines

Scare stories about artificial intelligence are missing the point: a world with superintelligent machines in it will be far stranger than that

Health

Subsidised egg freezing isn鈥檛 the answer to Japan’s birth rate

Earth

Billion-dollar vows to save Barrier Reef are too little too late

Humans

First step to reducing hate crimes? Enshrine equality in law

Aperture

Humans

End of an era: Photos show decline of the US newspaper industry

Photographer Will Steacy has charted the changes at The Philadelphia Inquirer in the face of technological upheaval 鈥� something that could soon affect us all

Features

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Humans

Don’t give up the day job: Why going to work is good for you

An always-on working culture can be oppressive, but it's also true that a meaningful job has surprisingly positive consequences for health

Humans

The world’s oldest paycheck was cashed in beer

Humans

Find your meaning at work: 6 things a salary can’t buy

Humans

Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives?

Humans

What happens if we pay everyone just to live?

Health

Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Culture

trees in wood

Earth

One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm

Richard Fortey bought 4 acres of wooded wonderland and treats us to a diary of its natural and local history, inhabitants and future 鈥� even a few recipes

Humans

Making a splash: Let’s hear it for the first underwater band

Regulars

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Feedback: Noel Edmonds zapped over electropad cancer claims

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

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