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No. 3079
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leaders
Why you should worry about intelligent machines
NEWS
UPFRONT
A yellow fever epidemic has hit central Africa. Is Asia next?
WADA report shows tricks Russian athletes use to skip drug tests
Zika virus prompts increase in unsafe abortions in Latin America
Comet perfume captures Rosetta probe’s whiff of comet 67P
China wants to share its new space station with the world
Freeze on gun research thaws a little as California opens center
Activists could force UK to clean its air – if it remains in EU
60 Seconds
THIS WEEK
Hundreds of genes seen sparking to life two days after death
Race to save hidden treasures under threat from climate change
Microbial mass extinctions were kicked off by human evolution
LIGO black hole pair may be stars that lived and died together
Microbubbles open brain’s barrier to make chemo more effective
Cont-roo-ception: Hormone implants bring kangaroos under control
IN BRIEF
Magnets could pull oil out of ocean before wildlife is harmed
Nearly naked black hole lost its ‘clothes’ to a gravity rip tide
Back-stabbing butterflies rob the ants that once protected them
Asteroids keep their rings safe from gas giants’ clutches
‘Stomach tap’ to let obese people empty their gut after eating
‘Daisy-chain’ gene drive vanishes after only a few generations
High-fibre diet may protect against peanut allergy
Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases
ANALYSIS
Forget killer robots: This is the future of supersmart machines
Subsidised egg freezing isn't the answer to Japan's birth rate
Billion-dollar vows to save Barrier Reef are too little too late
First step to reducing hate crimes? Enshrine equality in law
TECHNOLOGY
3D-printed phones herald world of instant electronic everything
Wearable device for racehorses could help prevent fatal injuries
NATO says the internet is now a war zone – what does that mean?
APERTURE
End of an era: Photos show decline of the US newspaper industry
FEATURES
Don’t give up the day job: Why going to work is good for you
The world’s oldest paycheck was cashed in beer
Find your meaning at work: 6 things a salary can’t buy
Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives?
What happens if we pay everyone just to live?
Fixed by light: Flick a switch to banish pain and blindness
PEOPLE
You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits
CULTURE
One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm
Making a splash: Let’s hear it for the first underwater band
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