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Is tech racist? The fight back against digital discrimination
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This week's magazine
30 July 2016
Issue 3084
On the cover
Editor's picks
Health
We’re on the cusp of a gene editing revolution, are we ready?
News
Earth
Are we ready for the gold rush on the sea floor?
Features
Humans
You are junk: Why it鈥檚 not your genes that make you human
Features
Physics
How lasers found gravitational waves 鈥� and could hunt for aliens
Features
Earth
How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea
Features
Earth
Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano
Features
Table of contents
Leaders
News
Humans
Baidu uses millions of users’ location data to make predictions
The Chinese search giant has analysed vast amounts of phone location data to monitor employment, consumer behaviour, and even Apple sales
News
Technology
Amazon to begin UK delivery drone trials to make them safer
News
Health
Zika epidemic could burn out in 3 years but return after 10
News
Earth
California鈥檚 fires force evacuation of people and exotic animals
News
Space
Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies
News
Health
60 Seconds
News
Health
Huge boom in teen HIV cases could cause epidemic to spiral
News
Space
Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea
News
Space
Mars rover Curiosity gets licence to shoot its laser at will
News
Health
CRISPR genome editing could save sight by tweaking DNA
News
Physics
Dark matter no-show puts favoured particles on death row
News
Humans
Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours
News
Earth
Hunting for Mars-like life a kilometre below Earth鈥檚 surface
News
Space
Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end
News
Life
Universal ancestor of all life on Earth was only half alive
News
Humans
The life and work of Alan Turing: Discovery weekend
News
Environment
City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol
News
Environment
Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises
News
Health
Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells
News
Life
Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content
News
Most powerful obesity gene found so far adds 1.5 to BMI scores
News
Space
Missing craters on Ceres may have been smoothed by a mud facial
News
Life
Eating each other鈥檚 faeces helps earwig young survive famine
News
Physics
First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics
News
Technology
How drones are learning to find their own way in the world
News
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water 鈥� and electricity
News
Analysis
Technology
Is tech racist? The fight back against digital discrimination
From soap dispensers that don't recognise black skin, to algorithms that discriminate and #airbnbwhileblack, some popular tech has a race problem we need to address
News
Humans
Dragnet to find Turkey coup plotters is harming academic freedom
News
Health
Let’s ditch the idea that only home-cooked food is good for kids
News
Space
No more space race rhetoric: it’s not just about the US any more
News
Features
Humans
You are junk: Why it鈥檚 not your genes that make you human
Genes make proteins make us 鈥� that was the received wisdom. But from big brains to opposable thumbs, some of our signature traits could come from elsewhere
Features
Earth
Vast undersea eruption revealed by wiring up a sea-floor volcano
Features
Earth
How robot swarms are learning to find what we lose at sea
Features
Earth
Are we ready for the gold rush on the sea floor?
Features
Physics
How lasers found gravitational waves 鈥� and could hunt for aliens
Features
