Life
Metacognition: Known unknowns
Features
This week's magazine
16 December 2006
Issue 2582
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Chilling prospects for Winter Olympics
Is the frantic competition to host the games harming the environment?
News
Health
Lab clue into catastrophic drug trial
News
Health
Report backs use of monkeys in research
News
Earth
Marine census delivers benign big catch
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
US citizens ignorant of genetically modified diet
News
Health
Blood risk of vCJD highlighted
News
An ill wind blows for UK turbines
News
Life
Intelligent design: The God Lab
News
soundbites
News
Space
Was it water, water everywhere on Mars?
News
Health
HIV delivers a punch to the guts
News
Life
Why life on Earth was a sure thing
News
This week 50 years ago
News
Physics
Hint of dark matter caught on camera
News
Life
Oxygen boom led to explosion of complex life
News
Health
Yoghurt improves gut instincts
News
Earth
People, the most powerful earth-movers of all
News
Health
Hope for diabetics with a sweet tooth
News
Humans
Did the air belong to mammals first?
News
Humans
Love thy neighbour 鈥� so you can kill the others off
News
Health
Birth painkillers cut breastfeeding success
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Terrorists win in web-savvy stakes
News
Technology
Paperless office? Still over the horizon
News
Earth
NASA overwhelmed by climate data
News
Technology
The waste at the heart of the web
News
Technology
Poisonous paint cleaned in a flash
News
Technology
Nanoscale robots built from DNA
News
Opinion
Features
Life
Metacognition: Known unknowns
Sometimes being sure that you're unsure is cleverer than a plain yes or no. New 杏吧原创 finds a missing link in the evolution of consciousness
Features
Environment
Deep secrets of the SS Persia
Features
Life
Recruiting smell for the hard sell
Features
Space
Anatomy of a super-Earth
Features
Earth
The ice age that never was
Features
More
Technology
Trails that redraw the map of America
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Cyberspaces of Everyday Life, by Mark Nunes
Books & Arts
Life
Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds, by David W Steadman
Books & Arts
Technology
Designing Interactions, by Bill Moggridge
Books & Arts
The word: Plagiarism
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