Health
Teach your brain to stretch time
Features
This week's magazine
4 February 2006
Issue 2537
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Faraday: a poser without peer
Michael Faraday may have invented an electricity generator, but he was also an unstoppable media dynamo, new research argues
News
Technology
US in U-turn over nuclear reprocessing
News
Life
Battle of the tiddler vertebrates
News
Life
Safe pickings needed for India’s vultures
News
Earth
Top climatologist forecasts swift ice cap collapse
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Childhood defects kill more people than AIDS
News
Life
Gun-toting motorists more prone to road rage
News
Health
Answering the cellphone-radiation question
News
Soundbites
News
Health
France keeps its atomic testing secrets
News
Physics
Quark stars crack cosmic conundrums
News
Earth
Arctic permafrost set to disappear over next century
News
Health
This week 23 years ago
News
Earth
Green turtle demise greatly exaggerated
News
Physics
Quantum foam blows away naked singularity
News
Health
Inside the brain of an alcoholic
News
Health
How the mind senses movement
News
Technology
Getting up to speed on ethanol
News
Health
Concerns rise over deer with chronic wasting disease
News
Space
‘Tenth planet’ is bigger than Pluto
News
Life
Tasmanian devils felled by rare cancer
News
Health
Probing the secrets of sticky earwax
News
Physics
Hubble explodes latest ‘evidence’ of cosmic strings
News
Health
Do healthy prions boost stem cells?
News
Earth
Glacial tricks of a volcanic sculptor
News
Technology
Feels sensational, says robot finger
News
Health
Individual mobile homes for living cells
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Earth
Pigeons to set up a smog blog
News
Health
A race against time to diagnose bird flu
News
Health
10-minute test for deadly stomach bug
News
Technology
Turning the worm secures the computer
News
Opinion
Technology
Editorial: We need to hear the bad news
It seems NASA is trying to gag Jim Hansen, a top climate modeller in the US, for speaking out on dangerous climate change 鈥� we need to hear more from him
Opinion
Technology
Editorial: Google whacked over Chinese censorship
Opinion
Life
Forgotten wrongs of cloning ‘pioneer’
Opinion
Physics
Science: A thing of beauty
Opinion
Interview: A sceptic’s work is never done
Opinion
Features
Health
Teach your brain to stretch time
Ever wished life was a little less frantic? Need more hours to get things done? The extra time you need is all in your mind, if you know how to find it
Features
Technology
Robot special: Almost human
Features
Technology
Robot special: Walk this way
Features
Technology
Robot special: Now hear this
Features
Technology
Robot special: Get a grip
Features
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Technology
Living in a material world
When it comes to raw materials, architects are spoilt for choice 鈥� we're in a strange new world of outlandish plastics, virtual fabrics and energy-making windows
Books & Arts
Life
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Books & Arts
Life
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Books & Arts
Life
Making Happy People by Paul Martin
Books & Arts
Physics
The word: Tachyons
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