Health We can treat age-related illness without calling ageing a disease Declaring ageing a disease could hold back efforts to find genuine treatments that tackle age-related illnesses like osteoporosis and dementia News
Mind Young children value the lives of animals more than adults do Children aged 6 to 9 are more likely than adults to save the life of a dog, pig or chimpanzee over a person in a hypothetical “trolley problem” scenario News
Technology What is the future of AI? Google and the EU have very different ideas While Google and other tech giants are rolling out new AI products at speed, the European Union is working on a law to restrict them News
Comment New book collates the pioneering photographs of Anna Atkins The 19th-century British botanist used an early photographic technique to document plants and algae, and in 1843 released the first ever book illustrated with photographs Regulars
Technology Knowing how to hack will be vital in a cybercrime-filled future To improve cybersecurity we need to understand how hackers really think, as well as how they code, says cyber-lawyer Scott Shapiro. That's why he's teaching everyone how to hack Features
Comment A Crack in the Mountain review: Stunning cave shows tourism's paradox A poignant documentary tells the paradoxical story of a vast, remote cave in Vietnam that looks likely to turn into a major tourist attraction Culture
Life Foraging for wild garlic: how, when and what to watch out for The pungent flavour of wild garlic probably evolved as a defence against herbivory, but it doesn’t deter garlic-loving humans, says Sam Wong Regulars
Race is on to publish the most scientific research papers in a career Feedback runs the numbers on 'prolific chemist' Rafael Luque, who has published 58 scientific research papers at a rate of one every 37 hours so far this year Regulars