Physics
Life inside a black hole
Features
This week's magazine
11 February 2006
Issue 2538
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Face transplant woman meets the press
Although she looks remarkably normal, Isabelle Dinoire's face is unique 鈥� she demonstrates its improving function to the press for the first time
News
Animal rights activists’ violence escalates
News
Health
China is the home of bird flu
News
Technology
More spending on nanotech safety research urged
News
Health
Have people been smoking ‘elastic’ cigarettes?
News
Space
Dark matter could be tepid stuff
News
Earth
Greenland’s glaciers are slip-sliding away
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Synthetic wheat offers hope to the world
News
Health
Hormone cheats risk it all for gold
News
Soundbites
News
Health
‘Walk again’ drugs to be tested on people
News
Earth
Uganda pulls plug on Lake Victoria
News
Earth
Insight: Has President Bush turned green?
News
Health
Red wine’s anti-ageing ingredient does it again
News
Earth
Thank clay for the air we breathe
News
Earth
The source of all ball lightning?
News
Life
The dino-daddy of all meat eaters
News
Health
This week 42 years ago
News
Life
Dolphin does the twist to hit the air spinning
News
Life
Fishes’ sex-change secret revealed
News
Earth
Krakatoa eruption cooled the world
News
Life
Rat sniffs have a sense of direction
News
Earth
Clouds gather over polluting ships
News
Life
Gut reaction makes bad bugs worse
News
Life
Male ‘pregnancy’ isn’t all in the mind
News
Health
Bacteria nabbed by sweet exterior
News
Life
The toughest instruction manual ever
News
Technology
The world’s longest laser created
News
Life
20 million fish in a record-breaking shoal
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Space
See Mars and Venus by balloon
News
Technology
Tailor-printed shoes will offer a perfect fit
News
Opinion
Health
Editorial: The race against cheats will run on
The range of performance-enhancing drugs used by athletes is widening and many are still beyond detection, but researchers must not give up
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: No way to run a planet
Opinion
Earth
Caught in the oil trap
Opinion
Life
Interview: Extinguishing red fire ants
Opinion
Features
Physics
Life inside a black hole
We all know that falling into a black hole is about as unpleasant as things get, but find a five-dimensional one and things look a lot more comfy 鈥� in fact, it's a lot like home
Features
Life
Make me a hipporoo
Features
Technology
How to make skyscrapers safer
Features
Earth
And now for today’s health forecast…
Features
Earth
Histories: Carteret’s South Sea trouble
Features
More
Life
In search of a second genesis
How does life get started? Where might we look for alien organisms? Paul Davies is intrigued by a new take on the great unsolved questions in biology
Books & Arts
Physics
Infinite Ascent: A short history of mathematics by David Berlinski
Books & Arts
Earth
Extinction: How life on Earth nearly ended 250 million years ago
Books & Arts
Life
The word: Musth
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