Humans
Out of Asia
Features
This week's magazine
1 July 2006
Issue 2558
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Carbon emissions to go on trial in US
The US Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from cars
News
Health
Vets demand official rejection of homeopathy
News
Earth
US Congress starts to believe in climate change
News
Earth
Bikini islanders sceptical of plans to clean up atoll
News
Life
Rock climbers not guilty of destroying plant life
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
Diplomats implicated in illegal wildlife trade
News
Health
Bogus emailer tries to get bird flu paper withdrawn
News
Health
Dolly’s cloning revolution fails to materialise
News
Health
Hope for therapeutic cloning despite hype and fraud
News
Soundbites
News
Life
DNA tests solve mystery of giant apes
News
Life
Alien species at the gates of Antarctica
News
Life
Domestication set dog genes free
News
This week 34 years ago
News
Life
‘Virgin birth’ stem cells bypass ethical objections
News
Physics
Superhot solar bubbles burst over the Earth
News
Health
Killer tomatoes attack human diseases
News
Life
World’s oldest spider’s web contains uneaten prey
News
Life
Bloodsucker knows its victim by the sound of its breathing
News
Life
Boys with older brothers born to be gay
News
Humans
Ancient jewellery points to early origins of language
News
Space
Nanoparticles light up the galaxy like a Christmas tree
News
Health
Get off the phone if you’re caught in a thunderstorm
News
Life
Reluctant mice reveal seat of female libido
News
Life
Pride really does come before a fall
News
Life
Play it cool if you want to win an online auction
News
Technology
Printing flaws reveal the age of historic documents
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Environment
Marine census will monitor health of the oceans
News
Technology
Desalination may be best hope to slake world’s thirst
News
Technology
Device records smells to play back later
News
Technology
‘Plasma needle’ could replace the dentist’s drill
News
Opinion
Health
After the hype: What Dolly the sheep really did for us
Much of the excitement surrounding the creation of the first animal clone has vanished and therapeutic cloning is in the doldrums. But her influence should not be downplayed
Opinion
Life
This is no way to save the whales
Opinion
Life
Life is unpredictable 鈥� get used to it
Opinion
Features
Humans
Out of Asia
Our ancestors evolved human-like traits in Africa before striking out to conquer Eurasia 鈥� or did they?
Features
Technology
The net reloaded
Features
Life
Why aliens love a good moon
Features
Health
Sobering news for pregnant women
Features
Earth
Histories: The parable of the vanishing fish
Features
More
Life
Art meets science for the first time
In the 1620s Federico Cesi and his friends in the Accademia dei Lincei strove to document and classify every living thing 鈥� a job still nowhere near completion
Books & Arts
Physics
Review: Something from nothing
Books & Arts
Technology
The word: 脫bidos
Regulars
String weary
Books & Arts
Not-so-wild America
Books & Arts
Just how healthy is British science?
Careers
