Life
Your body the powerplant
Features
This week's magazine
25 August 2007
Issue 2618
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Acrylamide cleared of causing breast cancer
A study of 100,000 nurses suggests that their risk of developing breast cancer was the same regardless of the amount of acrylamide in their diet
News
Earth
Are devastating hurricanes becoming the norm?
News
Health
‘HIV denial’ is costing lives
News
Earth
Tsunami strike risk for Hong Kong and Macao
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Mountain gorillas get 24-hour armed guard
News
Earth
Bushmeat hunters no threat to Amazon wildlife
News
Health
Young female prisoners at higher risk of death
News
Health
Dying for some quiet: The truth about noise pollution
News
Soundbites
News
Humans
New ape species rewrites our evolutionary history
News
Physics
Evidence for unified theory may lie in black holes
News
Life
Space could be the most likely source of life
News
Health
Common cold virus may trigger obesity
News
This week 50 years ago
News
Earth
Fossil-fuel hangover may block ice ages
News
Health
‘Shadoo’ prion sheds light on BSE
News
Health
Missing gene creates obsessive-compulsive mouse
News
Life
Bugs blur the species boundary
News
Life
‘Non-stick’ frog protein spawns new antibiotics
News
Physics
Cosmic hole defies dark matter theories
News
Physics
Universe’s extra dimensions may be apple-shaped
News
Environment
Cats learn by doing, not seeing
News
Earth
Oldest diamonds give clue to Earth’s early crust
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Skype outage raises P2P fears
News
Technology
Smaller transistors suffer from tiny flaws
News
Earth
Smart soap can save water
News
Technology
Virtual worlds offer far more than just escapism
News
Technology
Diaper polymer makes for a moist cornea
News
Earth
Virtual London shelved in row over map costs
News
Opinion
Features
Life
Your body the powerplant
You won't need batteries when you can harvest energy from your breathing, heart beat and blood flow
Features
Health
Cholesterol: Secret of our killer blood
Features
Space
Geyser teaser: The moon that should be colder
Features
Earth
The beaver: destructive pest or climate saviour?
Features
More
Science in Fiction: Essay by Rebecca Goldstein
How a serious-minded child stopped feeling ashamed about loving fiction and learned to embrace its peculiar power to unlock ideas
Books & Arts
Earth
Science in Fiction: Sixty Days & Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
Books & Arts
Health
Science in Fiction review: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Books & Arts
Life
Science in Fiction review: Ghost by Alan Lightman
Books & Arts
Health
Science in Fiction review: The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
Books & Arts
Life
Interview: In search of a grand unified theory of me
Books & Arts
Life
Science in Fiction: Pandora’s Sisters by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Books & Arts
Science in Fiction: Jeff Hecht and Michael Brooks on writing novels
Books & Arts
Science in Fiction: A Certain Ambiguity by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal
Books & Arts
