Humans
The secret life of the brain
Features
This week's magazine
8 November 2008
Issue 2681
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Debate over Indonesian mud volcano gets messy
At a meeting in South Africa this week, a majority of geologists said the disastrous mud volcano Lusi was caused by drilling
News
Space
Hubble is living on borrowed time
News
Health
The odd drink in pregnancy won’t harm baby
News
Life
Chinese and Nigerian men join elite genome club
News
60 Seconds
News
Environment
Primate welfare law could rule out some research
News
Life
Chicken genome plucked bare by inbreeding
News
Earth
Conservationists may be overestimating wildlife habitat
News
Earth
Can legislation stop the wells running dry?
News
Technology
Why hair bleach is a murderer’s best friend
News
Earth
Does rainfall vary with sunspot activity?
News
Physics
Has new physics been found at the ageing Tevatron?
News
Earth
Rare species could be frozen for future cloning
News
‘I’m not terribly fast at my times tables’
News
Earth
GM cotton in the clear over farmer suicides
News
Earth
Climate change sends lemming numbers plunging
News
Physics
Dark matter may be shining a light
News
Life
Earliest known shaman reveals tool of the trade
News
Earth
Japanese quake made the earth bounce
News
Life
Women’s hands boast more bugs
News
Humans
Brain sees fine line between speech and song
News
Health
Gene hunt finds cancer culprits
News
Life
Ants have a simple solution to traffic congestion
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Space
Space tourists to get limited protection
News
Technology
Amoeba inspires simple memory circuit
News
Technology
X-rays unmask deadly replica guns
News
Health
The online doctor will see you now
News
Technology
Cellphone app will get air guitarists wailing
News
Health
‘Concertina’ scaffold could help mend broken hearts
News
Opinion
Earth
Finding the facts about genetic modification
Independent auditing of GM technology is needed to sift the facts from the tidal wave of propaganda from both sides
Opinion
How curing boredom can boost research
Opinion
Space
Rock’n’roll cellphones 鈥� social glue or plain annoying?
Opinion
Health
Flu shots save fewer lives than thought
Opinion
How to launch a mission to the Moon
Opinion
Beware the destructive nature of greed
Opinion
Features
Humans
The secret life of the brain
Weird and wonderful things start to happen when you put your brain in neutral, finds Douglas Fox
Features
Physics
Where do science supermachines go when they die?
Features
Humans
How online games are solving uncomputable problems
Features
Earth
In search of the missing Stone Age tribes
Features
