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Editor's picks

The biggest questions ever asked

Physics

The Big Questions: What is reality?

Health

The Big Questions: Do we have free will?

Life

The Big Questions: What is life?

Physics

The Big Questions: Is the universe deterministic?

Humans

The Big Questions: What is consciousness?

Physics

The Big Questions: Will we ever have a theory of everything?

Life

The Big Questions: What happens after you die?

Humans

The Big Questions: What comes after Homo sapiens?

Technology

Histories: The spinning-top railway

Table of contents

News

Earth

US midterm elections 鈥� a good day for science

It was not just the Democrats who won big in last week's elections 鈥� science and the environment came up trumps too, almost everywhere

Health

Herbal medicines given air of effectiveness

Earth

New law permits the burying of CO2

Space

Space station crew to throw garbage overboard

Health

New boss for World Health Organization

Health

Abortion ban reversed in South Dakota

Earth

‘Marine protected areas’ lack protection

60 Seconds

Beyond belief: In place of God

Soundbites

Health

Stem cells reverse muscular dystrophy

Physics

Fleeting particle has shades of Higgs

Life

China and its friends push tiger farm idea

This week 50 years ago

Life

Neanderthal DNA to give up his secrets

Health

How to get your genes switched on

Life

Secret’s out for Saracen sabres

Life

Gypsy moth’s invasion strategy could be its downfall

Health

Painkilling saliva beats morphine

Space

Solar system might not be as young as it looks

Health

Smart drug bites into tooth decay

Earth

Sea canyons braced for climate change

Technology

Gizmo

Health

Easy way to cut out arsenic

Technology

Big brother is listening to you

Health

Doctors seek help from Google

Technology

Charge as you go, for laptops and phones

Technology

Vibrating wings could shake off ice

Opinion

Editorial: New 杏吧原创 is 50 (and counting)

In a world where fashions change like the weather, reaching 50 is worth shouting about. Here's to science in the next half-century

Health

Drug trial double standards

Steven Weinberg forecasts the future

Paul Davies forecasts the future

Sydney Brenner forecasts the future

Francis Collins forecasts the future

John D. Barrow forecasts the future

Lewis Wolpert forecasts the future

Edward O. Wilson forecasts the future

Frans de Waal forecasts the future

Gerard ‘t Hooft forecasts the future

Max Tegmark forecasts the future

Marcus du Sautoy forecasts the future

Steven Pinker forecasts the future

Rocky Kolb forecasts the future

Richard Miller forecasts the future

J. Richard Gott forecasts the future

Michael Gazzaniga forecasts the future

Lisa Randall forecasts the future

Robert May forecasts the future

Peter Norvig forecasts the future

Niles Eldredge forecasts the future

Daniel Pauly forecasts the future

Ellen Heber-Katz forecasts the future

Alexander Vilenkin forecasts the future

Timothy Gowers forecasts the future

Stephen Wolfram forecasts the future

Michael Benton forecasts the future

Bernard Wood forecasts the future

Igor Aleksander forecasts the future

Martin Rees forecasts the future

Geoffrey Miller forecasts the future

Frank Wilczek forecasts the future

Andrew Knoll forecasts the future

Chris McKay forecasts the future

Rodney Brooks forecasts the future

Lawrence Krauss forecasts the future

Elizabeth Loftus forecasts the future

Peter Atkins forecasts the future

Sean Carroll forecasts the future

Arthur McDonald forecasts the future

Bruce Lahn forecasts the future

Terry Sejnowski forecasts the future

David Deutsch forecasts the future

Nathan Myhrvold forecasts the future

Benoit Mandelbrot forecasts the future

Paul Nurse forecasts the future

Eric Horvitz forecasts the future

Interview: A nose for controversy

Features

The biggest questions ever asked

To celebrate New 杏吧原创 magazine's 50th birthday, we are tackling eight of the truly big questions, from free will and reality to life and death

Physics

The Big Questions: What is reality?

Health

The Big Questions: Do we have free will?

Life

The Big Questions: What is life?

Physics

The Big Questions: Is the universe deterministic?

Humans

The Big Questions: What is consciousness?

Physics

The Big Questions: Will we ever have a theory of everything?

Life

The Big Questions: What happens after you die?

Humans

The Big Questions: What comes after Homo sapiens?

Technology

Histories: The spinning-top railway

More

Technology

Atom ash keeps cloth clean

Classic article from 1956: A substance present in the radioactive ash from atomic power stations is used to clean up laundry

Technology

The coleopter 鈥� a revolutionary experimental aircraft

Technology

Windscale fire

Space

A regrettable altercation

Space

Launch of Sputnik 1: How soon to the moon?

Technology

Baby Computer

Technology

Atomic Aircraft

Life

Genetic chemistry 鈥� a new science?

Technology

Rubber windshield

Physics

Particles and parity

Technology

Television without wires

Technology

The indestructible transistor

Journey through time

Health

Influenza wave from the east

Space

The trouble with Hubble

Life

Cloning: The point of no return

Earth

Act now, before it is too late

Space

An hour on Titan, and eternal glory

Physics

Hot contender ousts current champ

Health

Face transplant may be only way to restore speech

Physics

Antiworld flashes into view

Humans

Human genome: The end of the beginning

Physics

Chicago quark hunters come out on top

Unexpected twist for tubular carbon

Physics

Claims for ‘test-tube fusion’ meet scepticism

Physics

Big bang echoes through the universe

Space

A major malfunction

Earth

Continental drift: the final proof

Technology

The world’s worst nuclear accident

Physics

The quest for the W particle

Humans

Ethiopia yields an elder brother for Lucy

杏吧原创s purged in Argentina and Chile

Mind

The brain’s own opiate

Earth

Climatic cause for concern

Health

AIDS: The gay epidemic

Technology

Nuclear digging on trial

Life

Changes made to fruit fly

Physics

First signs of gravitational waves?

Space

Is Pluto no bigger than the moon?

Technology

US reactor accident melts nuclear credibility

Environment

Aerosol hazard to atmospheric ozone

Life

Cautious agreement at Pacific Grove

Health

Diet halves deaths from heart disease

Technology

The thing about beards

Life

Pills against population

Technology

Circular runways for airports?

Technology

A tube train that splits down the middle

Physics

Quark-hunters draw a blank

Humans

How can Man improve Man?

Technology

The flashing maser

Life

The genetic code explained

Health

A simpler life-form than a virus

Technology

Polypropylene: Plastic with a future

Space

Gagarin goes into orbit

Life

Review: Out of Thin Air, by Peter Ward

Physics

Genesis Machines, by Martyn Amos

Life

The Science of Orgasm, by Barry Komisaruk

The word: Snowclone

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