Technology
Artificial intelligence: Early ambitions
Features
This week's magazine
3 November 2012
Issue 2889
Editor's picks
Artificial intelligence: A new future
Features
Artificial intelligence: The coming superintelligence
Features
Technology
Artificial intelligence: Everyday AI
Features
Earth
The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age
Features
Environment
Of lice and men: A very intimate history
Features
Humans
Does your biology influence your vote?
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Are Europe’s ash trees finished?
A fungus that kills ash trees has reached the UK. 91av investigates where it came from and what can be done to stop it
News
Earth
Sandy shuts down New York’s power grid and subway
News
Earth
Slow-moving hurricanes such as Sandy on the rise
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Smoking drives women to an early grave
News
Earth
Bugged phone deepens controversy over Italian quake
News
Space
SpaceX poised to bring back blood and cucumber plants
News
Technology
Eco-warriors: US military pushes for green energy
News
Physics
Galaxies could give glimpse of the instant time began
News
Health
Molecules ‘too dangerous for nature’ kill cancer cells
News
Physics
Polystyrene atoms could surpass the real deal
News
Earth
Tropical plankton exodus by 2100
News
Humans
Brain circuits run their own clocks
News
Earth
Radiation still high in Fukushima fish
News
Life
Last life on Earth: microbes will rule the far future
News
Health
UV exposure isn’t the only worry for red-heads
News
‘Zombie’ planet: Weird world may be back from the dead
News
Environment
Flying fish fossils hint at ancient evolution
News
Environment
Zoologger: Humble bee nests in horse dung
News
Orphaned stars linger in dark matter haloes
News
Life
Prehistoric Transylvanian mammal had blood-red teeth
News
Health
Brain stimulation gives tics to those without Tourette’s
News
Health
Golden solution to inexpensive test for HIV
News
Technology
Mine your language: Software decodes company reports
News
Technology
Will software revamp guard grid against cyberattack?
News
Technology
Flea-like robot takes giant leap in bot locomotion
News
Health
Want to keep your genome safe? There’s an app for that
News
Opinion
Earth
The US military is a useful ally on climate change
A lean, green fighting machine could help tip the balance in the war for the planet
Opinion
Earth
We must heed the warnings from superstorm Sandy
Opinion
Obama is still the best hope for science in the US
Opinion
Space
Why I’ve built my own satellite
Opinion
Humans
Oliver Sacks: I want to de-stigmatise hallucinations
Opinion
Features
Technology
Artificial intelligence: Early ambitions
We have long imagined machines that can reason and learn as well as a human can. But building them has turned out to be surprisingly difficult
Features
Artificial intelligence: A new future
Features
Artificial intelligence: The coming superintelligence
Features
Technology
Artificial intelligence: Everyday AI
Features
Earth
The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age
Features
Environment
Of lice and men: A very intimate history
Features
Humans
Does your biology influence your vote?
Features
Culture
Physics
Exploding the myths about the Higgs
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Fighting TB, the unforgiving enemy
Culture
A whistle-stop tour through science history
Culture
Parcelling up nature in One Cubic Foot
Culture
