Health
Mind fiction: Why your brain tells tall tales
Features
This week's magazine
7 October 2006
Issue 2572
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Life
Tusk sale a boon for elephants
The sale of a huge cache of ivory is about to go ahead, in only the second legal sale since 1989
News
Health
Pioneers of RNA interference win Nobel prize
News
Earth
杏吧原创s look to place a pro-science president
News
Technology
Fewer cheap guns = fewer criminals with guns
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Obesity linked to drug-like food addiction
News
Physics
Chinese reports of fusion wildly exaggerated
News
Physics
Finders of big bang afterglow win Nobel prize
News
Health
Organs on demand, no embryo needed
News
Health
TB that travelled from farm to club
News
Health
Afghanistan’s health gains at risk as fighting returns
News
Physics
Spooky steps to a quantum network
News
Soundbites
News
Earth
Cosmic rays before seven, clouds by eleven
News
This week 34 years ago
News
Earth
Cooling oceans buck global trend
News
Life
Invading algae’s sweet touch spells death for coral
News
Health
How the body douses the fires of infection
News
Health
Power of diabetes ‘cure’ fades over long term
News
Space
Hubble spots hurtling planets with day-long years
News
Humans
Food was prize in early marathons
News
Physics
Lucrative store locations pinpointed by new model
News
Health
Yoghurt could help fend off HIV
News
Life
Farmed salmon put wild cousins at risk
News
Technology
Biodefence special: Fortress America?
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
FDA too poor to test nano safety
News
Space
Solar storms spell trouble for GPS
News
Space
Steel whiskers mimic prey sensors
News
Earth
Biofuel made from power plant CO2
News
Technology
Happy snaps from a virus-infested chip
News
Technology
Wireless modem links underwater adventurers
News
Opinion
Features
Health
Mind fiction: Why your brain tells tall tales
Once upon a time, if you believed your own fantastical stories it was a sure sign you were away with the fairies, but turns out we all like to create happy-ever-afters
Features
Physics
My other universe is a Porsche
Features
Technology
The undersea quake-zone tunnel builders
Features
Health
Statins: Wonder drugs for the masses?
Features
Health
Dr Diet’s recipe for health
Features
More
Life
Review: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
He wants to live in a world with no religion because he holds it responsible for many atrocities, but Dawkins is labouring under a flawed ideology of his own, argues Mary Midgley
Books & Arts
Health
Bioethics of organ transplants in developing countries
Books & Arts
Life
The word: Liverwort
Regulars
Physics
The Best of All Possible Words, by Ivar Ekeland
Books & Arts
Life
Homo Britannicus: The incredible story of human life in Britain, by Chris Stringer
Books & Arts
The lure of the Celtic Tiger
Careers
