Can technology replace teachers? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries

The Guardian coding workshop

This past summer 4 developers volunteered from the department to teach Python to 10 students ages 17-26.

Tesco Bank cyber attack involved guesswork, study claims

Academics say working out card number, expiry date and security code of Visa card takes ‘as little as six seconds’

School for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park

Sixth-form College of National Security will teach cyber skills to some of Britain’s most gifted youngsters to fight growing threat

The Guardian view on the humanities: science doesn’t have all the answers

Editorial: It is 60 years since CP Snow’s essay The Two Cultures poured scorn on the literary world and welcomed the advance of science and technology. But in a fractured world, the humanities are key to an understanding of others

The ups and downs of being an airline pilot

Tom Hanks’s latest thriller, Sully, is about the dramatic emergency landing of a plane on the Hudson River. But what do we know really about the lives of pilots? Jonathan Margolis hears some cockpit confessions

Trump, Brexit and the age of popular revolt: 2016 in Long Reads

Ten big stories to help make sense of a bewildering year in global politics

Cambridge students build a ‘lawbot’ to advise sexual assault victims

Imagine RoboCop went to Oxbridge – well, it’s nothing like that at all

Sir James Dyson dismisses EU tariff fears of hard Brexit

It’s no catastrophe if Britain can’t agree a deal to stay in the single market, says inventor as he pledges to plug UK shortfall of engineers via his new college

Inside the push to get more Indigenous students studying science and tech

With less than 1% of Indigenous students studying Stem subjects, Qantas, CareerTrackers and Atlassian among Australian companies aiming to encourage more to study science, tech, engineering and mathematics

When bitter tastes sweet, seeming is believing

The new ‘Taste Buddy’s aim of making broccoli taste like baked Alaska is a great reminder of how politicians get us to swallow their wares

Schools not preparing children to succeed in an AI future, MPs warn

Cross-party report suggests the education system must be adapted to “focus on things that machines will be less good at for longer”

Why scientists should learn to love Reddit

You’ll find communities thirsty for your findings – and a space to demonstrate measurable ‘impact’ to your heart’s content

Wolfgang Suschitzky obituary

Photographer and cinematographer who captured 30s London and shot Get Carter

University marketers: try making your message more Snapchatty

Snapchat is quick, informal and hugely popular. Use it to bring your students together to share experiences and celebrate triumphs