Life
Human life: The next generation
Features
This week's magazine
24 September 2005
Issue 2518
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Unregulated fishing devastates shark populations
Fishermen have been catching 40 tonnes of deep water sharks per week off the coast of north-west Europe, a new study claims
News
Health
Misguided safeguards may limit MRI scans
News
Health
Flu shots prove successful
News
Space
NASA harks back to Apollo
News
Earth
Air travel boosts climate change
News
Space
Titan may boast extraterrestrial sea
News
Health
Smoking ban is a clear winner
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
100 years after E=mc2
News
Life
Eggs thrive in ovary transplants
News
Earth
South Atlantic hurricane rings climate alarm bells
News
Earth
East African parks face bleak future
News
Will we meet our pledge to end world poverty?
News
Health
Never too late to revitalise your mind
News
Soundbites
News
Life
Online database to catalogue animal life
News
US army plans to bulk-buy anthrax
News
Health
Viral hitch-hiker targets tumours
News
Life
Neanderthal kids needed time to grow up
News
Space
Exact home of Mars meteorite suggested
News
Life
‘Whale riders’ reveal distant split in cetacean species
News
Life
Ants keep unwanted trees off their turf
News
Earth
Global warming may have big effect on air pressure
News
Technology
Test sorts fakes from priceless porcelains
News
Life
Remove sperm’s cap before injecting
News
Earth
AI systems may blow weathermen away
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Space
Space fires put out with a shout
News
Technology
Swarm of insect-sized robots commissioned
News
Life
Species-spotting for beginners
News
Technology
CarSim turns witnesses’ words into movies
News
Health
E-nose to sniff out hospital superbugs
News
Opinion
Editorial: Follow poverty pledges with cash
The UN summit saw some encouraging hints that rich nations will honour their pledges to increase international development aid
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: Storm warning
Opinion
Science versus animal rights extremists
Opinion
Hollywood’s changing take on the scientist
Opinion
Features
Life
Human life: The next generation
Technological development is not linear, but exponential, and this explosive rate of change means that human life will soon be irreversibly transformed
Features
Health
Coffee: The demon drink?
Features
Health
The unbearable absence of smelling
Features
Life
The butterfly’s effect on cosmetics
Features
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Transforming US Intelligence edited by Jennifer E Sims and Burton Gerber
Some books give us unexpected 鈥� and unintentional 鈥� insights into closed worlds. Mike Holderness delves into one, written by former spymasters
Books & Arts
Science essay competition 2005
Books & Arts
Earth
The word: Tanzanite
Regulars
Head for the cities in the snow
Careers
