Humans
What good is God?
Features
This week's magazine
1 September 2007
Issue 2619
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Antarctic seals carry virulent human disease
The fur seal pups are carrying a nasty strain of the E. coli bacterium, adding to fears we are failing to protect this pristine environment
News
Space
Jupiter both protects and endangers us
News
Health
Entire kidney removed through navel
News
Earth
Hurricane Dean decimated Mexican ecosystems
News
Space
The biggest hole ever seen in the universe
News
Earth
Whale hunt may stop, announces Iceland
News
Health
Diabetes fears over corn syrup in soda
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Lessons of hurricane Katrina are being ignored
News
Health
Could type 2 diabetes be reversed using surgery?
News
Soundbites
News
Health
Fruit bats carry deadly Marburg virus
News
Life
Mistrust rises with social diversity
News
Technology
UK’s nuclear accidents blamed on poor safety
News
Health
Cellphones affect human cells without heating them
News
Technology
This week 50 years ago
News
Life
Orchid fossil reveals flowers’ domination of Earth
News
Life
Pitch perception skewed by modern tuning
News
Earth
India’s monsoons more variable than thought
News
Health
An out-of-body experience 鈥� without the death bit
News
Space
Ringside view of change at Uranus
News
Life
Why superheroes always win
News
Health
Alzheimer’s tangles destroyed after gene therapy
News
Life
Modern women are excellent gatherers
News
Health
Cancer-seeking antibodies guide light-sensitive drugs
News
Technology
Mobile games consoles pose security threat
News
Technology
Blueprint drawn up for quantum RAM
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Virtual entrepreneurs and ‘griefers’ spoil the fantasy of online worlds
News
Technology
Plant genes switched on by sound waves
News
Technology
Glowing protein could be smallest thermometer
News
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: Save the Arctic Ocean for wildlife and science
Rather than drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, we need a treaty to protect the new environment that is emerging from beneath the ice
Opinion
Earth
Comment: Cursing condoms
Opinion
Life
Essay: What really makes us human?
Opinion
Technology
Interview: Second Life 鈥� under attack
Opinion
Features
More
Life
Review:
Are the Archaea a new form of life? No matter how awe-inspiring they may be, biologist Lynn Margulis thinks not
Books & Arts
Humans
Review: The Most Dangerous Animal: Human nature and the origins of war
Books & Arts
Life
The Word: Burble
Regulars
Earth
Review: To Follow the Water, by Dallas Murphy
Books & Arts
Physics
Review: About the Size of It, by Warwick Cairns
Books & Arts
Health
View from the Top: Meet Andrew Wadge, chief scientist of the UK’s Food Standards Agency
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