Physics
Is Earth at the heart of a giant cosmic void?
Features
This week's magazine
15 November 2008
Issue 2682
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Obama’s win was an historic day for forecasters too
For all the inherent uncertainties in electoral outcomes, the 2008 contest may be the one that established election forecasting as a powerful predictive science
News
Calculating the cost of the ‘eco-crunch’
News
Google to help medics plan flu response
News
NASA bids farewell to Phoenix lander
News
Health
‘Invisible’ transplant organs now in sight
News
Controversial animal lab opens for business
News
Earth
Australian river fails the acid test
News
60 Seconds
News
Humans
How warfare shaped human evolution
News
Health
Broken nerves can be fixed in a flash
News
‘Maybe it’s just a good place to pick up girl sharks’
News
Obama moves swiftly to repair stem cell damage
News
Health
Drug protects mice from heart failure
News
Health
Personalised cancer treatment on the way
News
Humans
Speed daters go for crowd-pleasing looks
News
Physics
Quantum effects bring no solace for physicists
News
Life
Why we love to hate the spider
News
Why a speeding shark is like a golf ball
News
Health
Antioxidant could lead to safer thalidomide
News
Plastic not so fantastic in the lab
News
Life
Planet wobbles could reveal Earth 2.0
News
Life
Finches keep the beat with a mental metronome
News
Harmless virus harnessed to attack tumours
News
Humans may have prevented super ice age
News
Life
For tastier food, just add bacteria
News
Technology
Harnessing the power of the beating heart
News
Technology
Liquid mirror could filter out stars’ twinkles
News
Technology
US gives go-ahead for super Wi-Fi
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Technology
Poker bots raise the stakes for human players
News
Space
Sun shines on future Mars colonies
News
Technology
Digital images contain their maker’s mark
News
Opinion
Obama needs to put his faith in rationality
There's much that can be done to reassure scientists that policy is being driven by reason in a post-Bush America
Opinion
Lean times ahead for non-US stem-cell research
Opinion
Science can imagine it for you wholesale
Opinion
Space
Why Europe should build its own crewed space vehicle
Opinion
Features
Physics
Is Earth at the heart of a giant cosmic void?
We assume that there is nothing particularly special about our little corner of space, but if there is it might solve one of cosmology's most pressing problems
Features
Earth
Dumb eco-questions you were afraid to ask
Features
Life
Tunnelling nanotubes: Life’s secret network
Features
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Enigma No. 1520
Regulars
Sci-fi special: Is science fiction dying?
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: William Gibson
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Ursula K Le Guin
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Kim Stanley Robinson
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Nick Sagan
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Stephen Baxter
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Margaret Atwood
Books & Arts
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Books & Arts
The Last Theorem by Arthur C Clarke and Frederik Pohl
Books & Arts
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
Books & Arts
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
Books & Arts
Incandescence by Greg Egan
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Ones to watch
Books & Arts
Sci-fi special: Your all-time favourite science fiction
Books & Arts
