Space
The amazing food replicator
Features
This week's magazine
20 August 2005
Issue 2513
Editor's picks
What if聟? Exploring alternative scientific pasts
Features
Physics
What if聟the Nazis had won
Features
Physics
What if聟 Newton had abandoned science
Features
What if聟 Charles II had no interest in science
Features
Technology
What if聟 Electric motors pre-dated steam engines
Features
What if聟 Darwin had not sailed on the Beagle
Features
Physics
What if聟 Young Einstein had been ignored
Features
Health
Histories: Get up, get out of bed
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Northern-most hydrothermal vents revealed
A Norwegian-led expedition has offered the first glimpse of the most northerly and most isolated undersea hydrothermal vents yet discovered
News
Life
Paternity uncertainty revealed as 1 in 25
News
Life
Sexy images cause temporary blindness
News
Space
NASA still flummoxed by falling foam
News
Health
Legal loophole may allow exposure to chemicals
News
Space
‘Tenth planet’ hunted in wrong part of the sky
News
Health
New York smoking ban helps hospitality workers
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Baby comes with brain repair kit for mum
News
Earth
Sceptics forced into climate climb-down
News
Earth
Rapid-fire eruptions doomed the dinosaurs
News
Health
HIV could fight immune diseases
News
Earth
Quest for oil could injure marine life
News
Soundbites
News
Health
Glimpse your genetic future for $1000
News
Life
Inca bean counters used string theory
News
Space
Dwarf galaxy lights up dark matter debate
News
Earth
Was ‘snowball Earth’ more of a slushball?
News
Health
‘Nurse’ cells may help infertile males
News
Physics
Swift probe answers gamma-ray burst questions
News
Earth
Global warming brings earlier spring thaw to Great Lakes
News
Health
An aspirin a day is not for everybody
News
Health
Cheap drug could polish off HIV
News
Health
Human tests near for Alzheimer’s treatment
News
Life
Some hotspots are hotter than others
News
Technology
Electronic skin turns robots touchy-feely
News
Health
Improved X-rays bring breast cancer into focus
News
Technology
Stored summer heat de-ices winter roads
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
How bots can earn more than you
News
Technology
3D computer model emerges from a pile of snaps
News
Health
Cellular motors may help unclog arteries
News
Opinion
Life
Editorial: What is the status of embryos?
What we allow scientists to do with the little balls of cells called embryos really depends on what we think they are
Opinion
Life
Forget the statistics, killing is wrong
Opinion
Space
The space shuttle: To pointlessly go…
Opinion
Technology
Interview: The world in focus
Opinion
Features
Space
The amazing food replicator
Imagine a compact machine that can create a larderful of familiar foods from limited space-friendly ingredients 鈥� NASA is looking for one
Features
What if聟? Exploring alternative scientific pasts
Features
Physics
What if聟the Nazis had won
Features
Physics
What if聟 Newton had abandoned science
Features
What if聟 Charles II had no interest in science
Features
Technology
What if聟 Electric motors pre-dated steam engines
Features
What if聟 Darwin had not sailed on the Beagle
Features
Physics
What if聟 Young Einstein had been ignored
Features
Health
Histories: Get up, get out of bed
Features
More
The Geneticist who Played Hoops with my DNA, by David Ewing Duncan
The big personalities in science are important, says Harry Collins, but more for the values they espouse than for how they drive the science
Books & Arts
Not built in a day
Books & Arts
The long view
Books & Arts
Physics
The word: Frustration
Regulars
Living under a spaceport’s flight path
Books & Arts
