Humans
The Neanderthal within
Features
This week's magazine
3 March 2007
Issue 2593
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Hidden life under Larsen ice revealed
Seabed hidden for thousands of years below Antarctic ice sheets has given up its amazing secrets
News
Health
Can vitamin supplements do more harm than good?
News
Earth
Tracing poachers with tusk DNA
News
Space
Iran launch: space shot or political stunt?
News
Life
Discovering the tomb of Jesus, wife and son
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Sweaty wrestlers may boost risk of hepatitis B
News
Health
A drug to fend off radiation
News
Physics
Higgs boson: Glimpses of the God particle
News
Health
How common viruses can turn cells cancerous
News
Humans
A taste for milk shows evolution in action
News
Soundbites
News
Health
Asthma linked to hybrid immune cell
News
Earth
Lead in bullets threatens recovery of condor
News
This week 50 years ago
News
Health
Natural birth control is slippery but effective
News
Humans
Wild chimps use spears to hunt bush babies
News
Health
HIV acquires a nano-enemy
News
Life
People see pets through rose-tinted glasses
News
Health
Ginkgo could aid memory formation
News
Earth
Mountain frogs succumb to high-flying pesticides
News
Physics
Moslem tilers were hundreds of years ahead of their time
News
Earth
Modified salmon aren’t so tough out of the tank
News
Life
Head to Tibet for a taste of Mars
News
Health
Kill the sperm, spare the irritation
News
Technology
Used cooking oil could be turned into cosmetics
News
Earth
Catalyst recycles waste methane into plastics
News
Technology
Changing road markings at the click of a mouse
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Space
Better forecasting to predict magnetic solar storms
News
Technology
Mother robot tops up her kids’ flagging batteries
News
Technology
Dump the TV set, watch the web instead
News
Opinion
Features
Humans
The Neanderthal within
Did our ancestors interbreed with other species of human? We might be more of a hybrid than we'd care to believe, as New 杏吧原创 discovers
Features
Physics
Inside inflation: after the big bang
Features
Life
Reading fiction with Darwin’s eyes
Features
Earth
War of the worms
Features
More
Health
Review: Digging up the Dead: Uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon, by Druin Burch
In the days before anaesthetic, a good surgeon was indifferent to the screams of his patients. How did surgery become a scientific profession in the early 1800s?
Books & Arts
Life
Review: The Dawkins Delusion, by Alister McGrath, with Joanna Collicutt McGrath
Books & Arts
Life
The Final Letters of Captain Scott 鈥� an exhibition
Books & Arts
Space
State of the Universe 2007, edited by Martin Ratcliffe
Books & Arts
Technology
The word: Typosquatting
Regulars
Jobs in pharma: Basic skills are key
Careers
