Physics
The first evidence for string theory?
Features
This week's magazine
18 December 2004
Issue 2478
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Space
Send astronauts to Hubble, NASA urged
Robots should not be sent to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, says a new high-level report, in disagreement with NASA's view
News
Health
Poisoned Ukraine contender can be treated
News
Space
US gives green light to space tourism bill
News
Health
Pop stars sing again in aid of Africa
News
Health
US to stockpile anthrax vaccine
News
Earth
Toxic tanker flounders off pristine coast
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Liver damage trials break new ground
News
Life
Calculating face values takes two brain areas
News
Earth
Dunes are alive with the sand of music
News
Earth
Climate change issues clouded by ozone
News
Life
Dog muzzles point to speedy evolution
News
Soundbites
News
Life
Settled life makes for speedy cultural evolution
News
Life
Second link discovered in human language circuit
News
Health
Childhood cancer rising across Europe
News
Health
Alcohol may help cancers grow
News
Earth
Bugs ravage North American forests
News
Earth
Space no place for cheap satellites
News
Earth
Cool the world: eat less, walk more
News
Earth
Bug ‘batteries’ send out pollution alert
News
Life
Birds duck and dive like fighter planes
News
Health
Fat chance for US immigrants
News
Life
Mystery over Tintin’s
News
Life
Sounds change the way people see
News
Health
Low-level radiation may trigger heart disease
News
Life
New angle on ants’ scents of direction
News
Life
Ancient flute-makers worked to the same tune
News
Earth
Arctic ocean was once a balmy sea
News
Technology
Pliable solar cells are on a roll
News
Technology
Buckets of bacteria may grow optical computers
News
Technology
Turning living rooms into virtual gyms
News
Technology
Stop or I’ll scream
News
Technology
Feeling the heat
News
Technology
Do you take metal?
News
Technology
One drip could save our microchips
News
Life
Anthropologists to beat gadget rage
News
Technology
How do you use yours?
News
Opinion
Health
Editorial: Argument over cod is back on the menu
It's time for the annual all-night haggle over rights to what's left of European cod stocks 鈥� radical action will be needed to preserve the industry
Opinion
Life
Psychology and the art of persuasion
Opinion
Health
Interview: Return of a ‘beautiful mind’
Opinion
Humans
Westminster diary
Opinion
Features
Physics
The first evidence for string theory?
A double view of galaxies and a quirky quasar leads astronomers to think they have spotted a thread of pure energy streaking through our galaxy
Features
Humans
Speed dating and the rules of attraction
Features
Health
The gene with your life in its hands
Features
Health
Peering through the tobacco smokescreen
Features
More
Life
Four books on Alexander the Great
"Does Alexander live? He lives and rules," goes the old Greek saying, inspired by the leader who had it all 鈥� now read all about him
Books & Arts
Space
Rocket Science by Alfred J. Zaehringer and Steve Whitfield
Books & Arts
Who’s reading what: physicist John Rigden
Books & Arts
Who’s reading what: biologist Marc Bekoff
Books & Arts
Life
The Dinosauria edited by David Weishampel, Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmolska
Books & Arts
Leaps in the Dark by John Waller
Books & Arts
Life
John James Audubon by Richard Rhodes
Books & Arts
