Life
Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind
Features
This week's magazine
16 February 2008
Issue 2643
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Aircraft noise poses a health risk for sleepers
Noise equivalent to an aircraft passing overhead can raise blood pressure 鈥� even when a person is asleep
News
Earth
Natural rifts may have weakened Antarctic ice shelf
News
Life
Creationism encroaches on Darwin’s bicentennial
News
Earth
US agency under fire over mercury trading
News
Earth
Sumatran tigers ‘being sold into extinction’
News
Earth
Map reveals natural disaster hotspots
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Gender-bender chemical probe targets PR firm
News
Life
On the origins of human spite
News
Soundbites
News
Life
Racial stereotyping persists in ‘non-racists’
News
Health
Big brains payrolled by Big Tobacco
News
Health
Pollen clues expose fake malaria drug scam
News
Physics
Superfluids could create a ‘universe in a bucket’
News
Black hole event horizon created in the lab
News
Physics
Why sandcastles are so easy to build
News
Life
Earliest bats did not ‘see’ with sound
News
Tweaking taps for a constantly warm shower
News
Earth
Global warming may not have caused sluggish Atlantic
News
Earth
Clearing land for biofuel crops just makes things worse
News
Health
Sweetener may be worse for dieters than sugar
News
Life
Monkey brain scans reveal ‘voice region’
News
Life
Hard graft, not genes, creates musical genius
News
Technology
Picky phages put to work in bacteria sensor
News
Technology
Robotic fish to spy beneath the waves
News
Health
Delivering drugs at the flick of a switch
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Games consoles reveal the supercomputer within
News
Technology
The power walk that charges your phone
News
Opinion
Editorial: Racism still runs deep
The finding that people still unconsciously dehumanise blacks by subtly associating them with apes shows we have some way to go to eliminate racism
Opinion
Comment: Truth is the best defence
Opinion
Interview: The man who would prove all studies wrong
Opinion
Life
Perspectives: My colleagues and other animals
Opinion
Commentary: Ideas that will govern America
Opinion
Features
Life
Forgetfulness is key to a healthy mind
Longing for a better memory? Be careful what you wish for, says Jessica Marshall
Features
Physics
Could preon stars reveal a hidden reality?
Features
Technology
Can science save a masterpiece?
Features
Life
Uncovering the evolution of the bacterial flagellum
Features
More
Space
Review: The Wraparound Universe by Jean-Pierre Luminet
This beautiful book on the possibility that our universe is a huge optical illusion will change the way you look at the sky, says Amanda Gefter
Books & Arts
Technology
Review: The Telephone Gambit by Seth Shulman
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Life as It Is by William Loomis
Books & Arts
Health
Review: The Blue Death by Robert D Morris
Books & Arts
Physics
Review: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion edited by Stephen Hawking
Books & Arts
