Humans
The dizzying diversity of human sexual strategies
Features
This week's magazine
29 November 2008
Issue 2684
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Quotas slashed to save fast-food fish
Stocks of the walleye pollack, the white fish ubiquitous in restaurants like McDonalds, are in danger of collapse
News
Earth
Hopes high for science-friendly approach in US politics
News
Health
‘Test and treat everyone’ to vanquish HIV
News
Earth
Planes, trains or automobiles? Climate villains revealed
News
Acid surprise
News
Safer fetal test for genetic diseases on horizon
News
Cholera epidemic hits crumbling Zimbabwe
News
Space
NASA may struggle to afford new space missions
News
Health
Pig organs: Ready for humans at last?
News
Health
Down’s symptoms may be treatable in the womb
News
Earth
Frog-killing fungus to be tackled in the wild
News
“A bunny-hugging mentality that is far removed from the realities of rural life.”
News
Health
Psychopaths have an eye for the underdog
News
Humans
Memories may be stored on your DNA
News
Earth
Did lack of comet impacts help life evolve?
News
Earth
Heat we emit could warm the Earth
News
George Bush’s parting swipe at the environment
News
Graffiti and litter lead to more street crime
News
Amoeba explains evolutionary mystery
News
Earth
Earth’s crust was drifting 4 billion years ago
News
Martian ice found hiding from the Sun
News
Humans
Voice impersonators use brain to ‘become’ characters
News
Overworked protein may trigger ageing across life
News
Earth
Which virus will birds give us next?
News
Life
Dogs’ amazing sense of smell down to a wet nose
News
Health
Smart drug implant has batteries included
News
Technology
Scanners avoid destructive tests on ancient manuscripts
News
Technology
Robot uncovers secret of lizard press-ups
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Earth
Robot gliders take the ocean’s pulse
News
Health
Molecular fireworks could produce ’30-minute genomes’
News
Technology
New tools predict web page popularity
News
Opinion
Can’t wait for stem cells? Have a pig’s liver
Concerns about rejection and new diseases made us too quick to write off animals as a source of organs
Opinion
New acceptance for Down’s syndrome
Opinion
Drinking to a long life
Opinion
Earth
Time to run before the storm
Opinion
Physics
How to sell science to the Big Brother generation
Opinion
The hard truth about animal research
Opinion
Features
Humans
The dizzying diversity of human sexual strategies
If our biology has designed us to procreate, why do people have such widely different attitudes to sex? Mairi Macleod investigates
Features
Health
Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?
Features
Earth
Whatever happened to the hydrogen economy?
Features
On the trail of Tahiti’s elusive vanilla orchid
Features
More
Review: Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
This entertaining analysis of success is entertaining, thought-provoking, and might even land you a job at Microsoft, but it won't change anyone's world view, says Andrew Robinson
Books & Arts
Review: The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Books & Arts
Review: Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife
Books & Arts
Review: Eating the Sun by Oliver Morton
Books & Arts
Enigma No. 1522
Regulars
Regulars
Literate dogs and haemorrhoids for sale
Why you can travel time by crossing the road in Paris, how trains can be in two places at once, and the ultimate get-out clause for manufacturers
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