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Why plans to achieve zero suicides might actually be counterproductive
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This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Comment
Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms
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Technology
AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make
Features
Health
Fasting power: Can going without food really make you healthier?
Features
Earth
Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet
Features
Physics
Stephen Hawking, my father: “Harry Potter has magic, we have science”
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Table of contents
Leaders
Technology
Data-driven medicine is welcome but patients must always come first
As AI, robots and face recognition find a place in medicine we must ensure people’s data is not misused, as good healthcare is always based on trust
News
Comment
Let’s embrace the joy of moonmoons and more playful scientific terms
News
News
Life
Shot of golden monkeys wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A portrait of two golden snub-nosed monkeys in China has won the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
News
Technology
Apple hits back at Australias plans for an anti-encryption law
News
Environment
Rabbit-killing virus may have mutated to kill hares too
News
Health
Wheat flour to be fortified with folic acid in the UK
News
Environment
Bill Gates leads global call to accept realities of a warming planet
News
Health
Human placenta stem cells help people recover from hip surgery
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Humans
National bans on smacking children linked to less teenage violence
News
Space
Alien life could spread between solar systems on interstellar rocks
News
Technology
Electric chewing gum zaps your tongue to create a virtual flavour hit
News
Earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old sponge
News
Space
Mysterious cosmic radio signal spotted unusually close to Earth
News
Technology
Great Ormond Street launches hospital of the future with AI and robots
News
Space
Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons
News
Health
We are a step closer to making babies with same-sex genetic parents
News
Life
Humongous fungus is older than Christianity and weighs 400 tonnes
News
Technology
The US wants a laser weapon that shouts at people before burning them
News
Health
Police can now use millions more people’s DNA to find criminals
News
Health
We can harness algae with magnets to deliver drugs inside our bodies
News
Health
Mice eat too much food if their great grandmother did the same
News
Humans
You can recognise around 5000 faces, from family to celebrities
News
Health
Swallowing a vibrating capsule could help relieve constipation
News
Life
T. rex may have used its long feet for stealthy surprise attacks
News
Technology
AIs invent weird new limbs to beat virtual obstacle courses
News
Life
Bees suddenly stopped buzzing in the US during the 2017 solar eclipse
News
Life
Rabbits flee when they smell dead relatives in predators’ droppings
News
Analysis
Health
Why plans to achieve zero suicides might actually be counterproductive
Health bodies and politicians are aiming for zero suicides, but doctors are warning this ambitious goal is simply unrealistic
News
Comment
Half-hearted cannabis legalisation move leaves patients in limbo
News
Health
We need to get better at supporting people who lose a pregnancy
News
Space
Soyuz crash could kill the ISS and set space flight back decades
News
Features
Health
Fasting power: Can going without food really make you healthier?
Fasting diets are getting ever more popular, amid promises of weight loss and better health, but does the science stand up? We put the latest one to the test
Features
Earth
Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet
Features
Technology
AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make
Features
Physics
Stephen Hawking, my father: “Harry Potter has magic, we have science”
Features
Culture
Physics
Brief Answers to the Big Questions review: Seeking the real Hawking
Stephen Hawking peered deep into black holes and helped integrate the biggest ideas in physics. But the extraordinary genius was very much a man of his times
Culture
Physics
Sneak peek at Hawking’s last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Culture
Life
Don’t Miss: Paranoid sci-fi, heat-reactive art and alcohol’s evolution
Culture
Space
Red Moon review: History lessons power great new lunar future novel
Culture
