Life
What price more food?
Features
This week's magazine
14 June 2008
Issue 2660
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Have we underestimated total oil reserves?
A statistical flaw means that global oil reserves could be up to twice as big as estimated, according to a former industry advisor
News
Health
Snorers should be tested for diabetes
News
Health
Teenage cervical cancer on the rise
News
Space
Could microbes on Phoenix survive on Mars?
News
Health
New guide to help investors target ethical Pharma
News
Earth
Is China a climate saint or sinner?
News
Earth
Otter poop to help compensate fish farmers
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
Synthetic biology: Rewriting the code for life
News
Earth
Ocean seeding fails the acid test
News
Soundbites
News
Health
‘Consciousness meter’ may predict coma recoveries
News
Space
Are dwarf galaxies disguised by dark matter decay?
News
Health
Longevity gene keeps the brain ticking over
News
Life
Human egg makes accidental debut on camera
News
Humans
Friends turn mental mountains into molehills
News
Space
Supernovae blasts kickstarted stars in early galaxies
News
Health
Tagging cells makes immune system light up
News
Earth
Ocean changes may trigger US megadrought
News
Health
Is a sniff of coffee as good as a sip?
News
Earth
Roadside crater should have made more of an impact
News
Life
Wiggling bird genitals give the ladies good vibrations
News
Life
Navigating seals perform a star turn
News
Technology
Surgeons may get Minority Report-style display
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Life
No-one behaves normally in cyberspace
News
Health
Free phone calls could help TB patients pop their pills
News
Technology
US considers nuclear-powered assault ships
News
Technology
New ‘super-paper’ is stronger than cast iron
News
Earth
Satnav signals could help ‘dowse’ for water
News
Opinion
Life
Editorial: How science can help feed the world
With food shortages causing concern worldwide, it is time for a second research revolution to help feed the growing population
Opinion
Comment: America’s abortion scandal
Opinion
Life
Interview: The cellphone anthropologist
Opinion
Commentary: We must avert the water wars
Opinion
Features
Life
What price more food?
It's the crisis the world should have seen coming. Debora MacKenzie discovers how the world ran out of food, and what we must do to put things right
Features
Life
The Ordovician: Life’s second big bang
Features
Physics
Grand designs: Symmetry’s hidden depths
Features
Humans
Follow me: The origins of leadership
Features
The ‘Einstein’ of the ancient Greeks
Features
More
Mind
Review: Doubt is Their Product by David Michaels and Bending Science by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner
Two books reveal how corporations have honed the ability to cast doubt on solid scientific research to the detriment of public health
Books & Arts
Review: Only a Theory by Kenneth R. Miller
Books & Arts
Review: Coming of Age in Second Life by Tom Boellstorff
Books & Arts
IT: Not your normal nine to five
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