Health
13 things that do not make sense
Features
This week's magazine
19 March 2005
Issue 2491
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Imported plants threaten Australian flora
To limit the damage, the government must act quickly to ban the sale of at least 80 plants that may become unstoppable weeds, a report suggests
News
Earth
Global warming may dry up economies too
News
French nuclear material may be easy target
News
Earth
US mercury pollution more pervasive than realised
News
Health
Mapping the proteins that make up a human
News
60 Seconds
News
Technology
Virus writers focus on Instant Messenger
News
Health
US cancels Agent Orange study in Vietnam
News
Earth
Asia primed for next big quake
News
Health
Will low-fat foods sway biotech sceptics?
News
Soundbites
News
Space
Superflares could kill unprotected astronauts
News
Life
X chromosome activity different in every woman
News
Life
Sequencing reveals origins of X chromosome
News
Life
Pay up, you are being watched
News
Health
The real reason for Atkins diet weight loss
News
Life
Complete reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton revealed
News
Health
Human embryonic stem cells grown animal-free
News
Health
Better plane ventilation could cut spread of disease
News
Physics
Black hole-like phenomenon created by collider
News
Life
Vampire bats are champion sprinters
News
Life
Flapping flags show how birds fly
News
Life
Protein recovered from dinosaur eggs
News
Health
Blindness risk is in your genes
News
Health
Rooting out arsenic in Bangladeshi wells
News
Life
Seven times lucky for the pig tamers
News
Health
Alzheimer’s plaques revealed in living brains
News
Physics
Individual electrons line up to be counted
News
Technology
Phase-change memory chips could win global jackpot
News
Technology
New photofit ‘evolves’ a suspect’s face
News
Technology
Chameleon-like smart phones do impressions
News
Technology
Laptop designed to break in half
News
Technology
Mouse smoothes out troublesome hand tremors
News
Technology
Invention
News
Technology
Classic Japanese clock to spring back to life
News
Life
The new pioneers of map making
News
Opinion
Editorial: On the uptake of healthier GM foods
Finally, GM crop growers are offering sceptical consumers a real reason to buy 鈥� low fat foods. Could it reverse anti-GM feelings in Europe?
Opinion
Editorial: Turning scandal into success
Opinion
Science to offer hope to Africa
Opinion
Life
Interview: The running man
Opinion
Humans
Westminster diary
Opinion
Features
Health
13 things that do not make sense
There are many scientific observations that simply defy explanation. New 杏吧原创 takes a tour of exceptions that could rewrite all the rules
Features
Technology
Crazy about transistor crystals
Features
Health
The cure that came in from the cold
Features
Histories: Ungentlemanly conduct
Features
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Life
Assembling the Tree of Life edited by Joel Cracraft and Michael J Donoghue
Books & Arts
Earth
Keepers of the Spring: Reclaiming our water in an age of globalization by Fred Pearce
Books & Arts
Being read by Harriet Ritvo, professor of history
Books & Arts
Physics
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The quest to find the hidden law of numbers by Dan Rockmore
Books & Arts
Being read by Virginia Zakian, professor of life sciences
Books & Arts
The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge edited by Mary Archer and Christopher Haley
Books & Arts
Earth
The Disconnected Rivers by Ellen Woh
Books & Arts
Technology
Bicycle: The history by David V Herlihy
Books & Arts
Trailblazing in Europe
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