Earth
Mission implausible: Extreme schemes to save the reefs
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This week's magazine
18 October 2008
Issue 2678
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Will knowing your genes change your behaviour?
Whether people act on news of their genetic predisposition to disease, or simply ignore it, has prompted a lengthy study of 10,000 Americans
News
Space
China ‘needs space debris law’
News
Space
McCain singles out planetarium for wasteful spending
News
Earth
Snow leopard numbers can be read in their scat
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Financial crisis a chance for change, says UN
News
Earth
Nanotubes worm their way into harmful places
News
Health
New killer virus makes an appearance
News
Health
Man ‘roused from coma’ by a magnetic field
News
Earth
Coastal wetlands ‘a washout’ against storm surges
News
‘Internet space has become the wall of a public toilet’
News
Health
Human immune cells grown in pigs
News
Physics
Swiss-cheese model of the cosmos is full of holes
News
Health
Skull-flexing blasts may explain puzzling brain injuries
News
Health
The disease legacy of our distant ancestors
News
Life
Grammar tool could help unpick alien messages
News
Earth
US elections: Who will avert the energy crisis?
News
Soundbites
News
Life
Most lifeforms dance to the same metabolic beat
News
Earth
Wildfire ozone exceeds safety limits
News
Health
People with autism know the odds
News
Life
Free-love bonobos are vicious hunters
News
Earth
DNA of gold-mine bug may be key to alien life
News
Life
Short heels make the best distance runners
News
Space
Speedy stars may be galactic immigrants
News
Space
Jupiter produced greatest pounding in Earth’s history
News
Health
Online ‘passports’ to make Chinese foods safer
News
Life
Baritone smoke alarms wake the deepest sleepers
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Roving brain implant bypasses damaged nerves
News
Technology
‘Quackers’ tarnish quantum secrecy’s halo of invincibility
News
Earth
Revamped lead-acid battery could slash cost of hybrids
News
Technology
Gecko sticking power outclassed by nanotubes
News
Opinion
Earth
Time to banish the god of growth
Most economists care only about growth, but if we are to leave a healthy planet to our children, this needs to change
Opinion
Improving the lot of coma patients
Opinion
Health
Comment: Hypnosis is good for more than stage tricks
Opinion
Earth
Special report: How our economy is killing the Earth
Opinion
Earth
Special report: Why politicians dare not limit economic growth
Opinion
Earth
Special report: Interview 鈥� The environmental activist
Opinion
Humans
Special report: Economics blind spot is a disaster for the planet
Opinion
Earth
Special report: Want to read more about sustainable growth?
Opinion
Earth
Interview: Champion for green growth
Opinion
Humans
Special report: Does growth really help the poor?
Opinion
Humans
Special report: We must think big to fight environmental disaster
Opinion
Earth
Special report: How to do your bit for the planet
Opinion
Humans
Special report: Life in a land without growth
Opinion
Humans
Special report: Nothing to fear from curbing growth
Opinion
Features
Earth
Mission implausible: Extreme schemes to save the reefs
With the world's corals in a desperate plight, researchers are considering some extraordinary rescue plans. Mark Schrope weighs them up
Features
Physics
Fundamental secrets are tied up in knots
Features
Health
Time to wake up to the facts about sleep
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