Technology
Whatever happened to machines that think?
Features
This week's magazine
23 April 2005
Issue 2496
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Execution by lethal injection branded inhumane
Many prisoners are conscious and in pain during execution but injected muscle relaxants mean they cannot show it, new research suggests
News
Health
California may protect kids with plastic ban
News
Technology
Randomly-generated ‘scientific paper’ accepted
News
Life
Cryo-stallion cloned from world-beater
News
Earth
Plea to save India’s Bengal tigers
News
Space
Shuttle’s external tank successfully fuel-tested
News
Space
China relieved as Great Wall pictured from space
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Space crimes and misdemeanors
News
Earth
Where have all the wild rivers gone?
News
Soundbites
News
Health
Lab slip-up could trigger next flu pandemic
News
Life
US President inspires name for slime-mould beetle
News
Earth
Even in nature, the rich get richer
News
Health
Mess with the body clock at your peril
News
Earth
Corals reveal rapid sea level changes
News
Health
Long-lasting gel blocks herpes
News
Life
Old stem cells can turn cancerous
News
Health
Gene sequencing reveals gut bug bonanza
News
Health
Cancer wonder drug Mark II
News
Life
Knowledge of gravity hard-wired in the brain
News
Earth
Earth’s solid centre confirmed
News
Health
Omega-3 diet may cut breast cancer
News
Life
Sharks are vital for coral reef health
News
Technology
Quantum chips may work above absolute zero
News
Life
Dino dig uncovers mother ready to lay eggs
News
Technology
Poisoned web poses risk to security
News
Technology
Built-in lasers give printers new powers
News
Technology
School blazers with built-in GPS
News
Health
Diamond-like layer could prevent blood clots
News
Earth
Greener lubricants clean up oil drilling
News
Technology
Invention
News
Technology
Ivory encore for dead piano greats
News
Space
Manned spacecraft to get black boxes
News
Opinion
Health
Editorial: Exit strategies
A UK parliamentary committee has given tentative support to a proposed right-to-die law. Assisted dying may be hard to stomach, but so are the alternatives
Opinion
Technology
Editorial: Time to think about artificial intelligence
Opinion
Health
Against holy orders: The papacy and reproductive science
Opinion
Life
Interview: The natural optimist
Opinion
Humans
Westminster diary
Opinion
Features
Technology
Whatever happened to machines that think?
The dream of artificial intelligence lives on, and the reality could finally be within our grasp, as New 杏吧原创 discovers
Features
Physics
The black hole hunter
Features
Life
Bringing dinosaurs back from the dead
Features
Health
Last rights: The battle for a dignified death
Features
Technology
The bulletproof priest
Features
More
Life
The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, mending and manipulating the mind by Steven Rose
Mike Holderness welcomes Steven Rose's ifs and buts
Books & Arts
Life
The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen (2005)
Books & Arts
Earth
Journeys from the Centre of the Earth by Iain Stewart
Books & Arts
Health
Nerve Endings by Richard Rapport
Books & Arts
Bestsellers 鈥� Oxford
Books & Arts
England’s golden triangle
Careers
