Physics
Introducing the glooper computer
Features
This week's magazine
26 March 2005
Issue 2492
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
UK’s final farm-scale GM evaluation concludes
The large-scale study found that, on balance, growing GM winter oilseed rape (canola) was worse for wildlife than the conventional crop
News
Health
Indian-made cheap drugs threatened by patent law
News
Earth
Coal-fired power plants to trade mercury pollution
News
Earth
Huge US market fuels illegal logging crisis
News
Technology
School computers may be overrated
News
Earth
French nuclear tests may have caused cancers
News
Earth
Fuel tax likely for European airlines
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
Rogue weeds defy rules of genetics
News
Earth
Cracks may force shutdown of UK reactors
News
Soundbites
News
Health
US flu vaccine trials may be effort wasted
News
Space
Glow of alien planets glimpsed at last
News
Health
Face blindness runs in families
News
Life
Kids 鈥� do not let gender bend your fender
News
Earth
Greenpeace slams seal hunt quotas
News
Health
Wrinkles could be less than skin deep
News
Space
Crater count led Mars historians astray
News
Space
Robot finds life in a Mars-like desert
News
Health
No way to heaven for born heathens
News
Earth
Forests belch out greenhouse gas
News
Health
Green tea may increase birth defect risk
News
Health
An apple a day may keep the doctor away
News
Life
Oysters may deserve their sexy reputation
News
Space
Neptune’s rings are fading away
News
Life
Bar-tailed godwit is king of the skies
News
Health
Prion antibodies open way for vCJD vaccine
News
Technology
Following the trail of the zombie PCs
News
Technology
Personalised robot aircraft for US soldiers
News
Technology
New Powerbook controlled with a shake
News
Technology
Snooze button addicts defeated by runaway clock
News
Health
Oil and water mix for better drugs
News
Technology
Invention
News
Technology
The personalised traffic jam buster
News
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: Edge of the global warming abyss
Within 10 years, climate change will be irreversible, concluded the climate science meeting in the UK last month 鈥� were politicians not listening?
Opinion
Health
Editorial: Back-pedalling on cannabis policy?
Opinion
Health
When drugs are too blunt an instrument
Opinion
Interview: Electronic maestros
Opinion
Humans
Washington diary
Opinion
Features
Physics
Introducing the glooper computer
How do you turn a blob of jelly into a thinking, feeling liquid brain? New 杏吧原创 investigates the development of chemical-based processors
Features
Earth
When lava flows uphill
Features
Health
Micro scalpel offers unprecedented precision
Features
Health
Cannabis: Too much, too young?
Features
Life
Histories: Nearer my god to thee
Features
More
Physics
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The letters of Richard P. Feynman
Books & Arts
Health
All in My Head: An epic quest to cure an unrelenting, totally unreasonable, and only slightly enlightening headache by Paula Kamen
Books & Arts
Earthly delights
Books & Arts
Meanwhile in heaven
Books & Arts
Do answer back
Books & Arts
Life
On the Wing by Alan Tennant
Books & Arts
Philip’s Dark Skies Map
Books & Arts
A Geological Time Scale 2004 edited by Felix Gradstein, Jim Ogg and Alan Smith
Books & Arts
The Hopes of Snakes by Lisa Couturier
Books & Arts
