The intoxication instinct
Features
This week's magazine
13 November 2004
Issue 2473
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Technology
Radar could prevent disaster
Cheap radar-based obstacle detectors could cut the worldwide death toll at railway crossings, safety experts say
News
Birds nosedive
News
Tasers take off
News
Not that bird flu
News
Bypassing Bush
News
Thumbs up for E-voting in US
News
60 Seconds
News
Can screening cut cot deaths?
News
Unlikely ally delivers therapy bang on target
News
Soundbites
News
Quantum decoys create uncrackable code
News
Skiing blood cells inspire pillow tech
News
Dustbin of history dates first settlers
News
Sleeping around boosts evolution
News
Sticky ice cements growing planets
News
Bits of RNA wield power over genes
News
Technology
How wet roads give grip the slip
News
Stressed mums can suffer miscarriage
News
Life
Rogue finger gene got bats airborne
News
Life
Giants survived human onslaught
News
Life
Crouching predator
News
Life
Swimming with dinosaurs
News
Life
Young pterosaurs came ready to fly
News
Life
First fossil chimp
News
Life
A giant among snakes
News
Eardrums take a bashing on the long march of steel drums
News
Take it E-asy
News
Donated cells save kidneys
News
Physics
Quantum chips back on the menu
News
Salty solution to arsenic dilemma
News
The unique shape of global trade
News
Getting a whiff of your kin
News
Migrating birds spy out magnetic field
News
Technology
Brain implants that move
News
Technology
Shock waves tear food bugs apart
News
Technology
Cutting edge
News
Technology
Magnetic catalysts work like a dream
News
Technology
Water-loving coat extends lifespan of artificial hips
News
Technology
Evading the secret snappers
News
Technology
Phone firms want in on video market
News
Opinion
Features
The intoxication instinct
It seems there are no limits to our appetite for mind-altering substances, but what is it about human nature that drives us to get out of our heads?
Features
Highs and lows
Features
A concise guide to mind-altering drugs
Features
Postcards from the edge
Features
How to mend a broken internet
Features
Ramesses rides again
Features
