Earth
Oil: The final warning
Features
This week's magazine
28 June 2008
Issue 2662
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Life
Territorial fight brews over pooch-cloning patents
Disgraced scientist Woo Suk Hwang and his former colleagues are battling it out over who has the right to clone dogs
News
Earth
Drought-resistant wheat beats Australian heat
News
Earth
Reef fish rebound in ‘no-take’ zones
News
Earth
Air travel in the tropics is worse for climate
News
Space
Phoenix lander digs for Mars ice to reveal its origin
News
Health
Transplant drug may ease disorder linked to autism
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
War dead counts ‘too low’
News
Health
Tamper-proof prescription drugs may halt abuse
News
Health
Is fructose fuelling the obesity epidemic?
News
Physics
Hawking ‘close’ to explaining universe’s inflation
News
Earth
How river engineering is tied to US floods
News
Soundbites
News
Olympic start gun gives the edge to inside runners
News
Space
Almighty smash left record crater on Mars
News
Health
White blood cells may be the key to long life
News
Life
Dog genome provides clues to breeds’ personalities
News
Technology
Could nuclear warheads go off ‘like popcorn’?
News
Health
Omega-3s are twice as important for girls as boys
News
Life
Poll booth location may influence voters
News
Health
Premature babies may suffer in silence
News
Earth
Springy sediments may amplify tsunamis
News
Health
Why some anaesthetics are a pain
News
Life
Hungry spiders spin deadlier webs
News
Earth
Arctic ocean volcano blew its top 鈥� even under pressure
News
Health
Cats may exacerbate eczema gene mutation
News
Life
Mean girls get the goods
News
Health
Radio ID tag signals could switch off your pacemaker
News
Earth
Web hits used to pinpoint earthquakes
News
Space
Orbiting robots could repair satellites on the fly
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
How a quantum effect is gumming up nanomachines
News
Life
Artificial brain predicts death-row executions
News
Opinion
Editorial: High oil prices are an opportunity for change
A future based on oil is looking increasingly precarious 鈥� we need to use the high oil price to foster low-carbon technologies
Opinion
Earth
Comment: Kicking the oil habit
Opinion
Interview: Fighting the dark side of the web
Opinion
Commentary: Why astronomy is so important to science
Opinion
Features
Earth
Oil: The final warning
Price is just the start of it. We need to kick the petroleum habit or we'll soon be in real trouble, says Ian Sample
Features
Earth
Tunguska: The day the sky exploded
Features
The science of fiction
Features
Health
MicroRNAs: The cell’s little emperors
Features
Humans
Viking longships brought rape, pillage and cod
Features
More
Review: Snoop by Sam Gosling
How much can you really tell about a person by looking through their stuff? Quite a bit, if you know how to snoop
Books & Arts
Review: Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock
Books & Arts
Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory by George Musser
Books & Arts
Review: The Universe in a Mirror by Robert Zimmerman
Books & Arts
A fresh outlook for German science
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