Physics
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang?
Features
This week's magazine
13 December 2008
Issue 2686
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Mountaintop miners lose bank’s backing
Campaigners hope the banking industry will follow the Bank of America's decision to refuse loans to coal mining companies that remove mountaintops to dig out the black stuff
News
Health
Brain-boosting drugs ‘not to be feared’
News
Space
US and Europe join forces for future Mars missions
News
Beijing set to stay thirsty until 2014
News
DNA database ‘violates human rights’
News
First malaria vaccine a success in trials
News
Atlas reveals ‘two for the price of one’ forests
News
Banning bluetongue
News
Puberty blockers recommended for transsexual teens
News
Earth
Stock market game may predict eco disasters
News
Martian rock steps mark past climate swings
News
Jealous dogs don’t play ball
News
Life
Swirling waters boost chance of life on Europa
News
‘We have ‘survival’ emissions, you have lifestyle emissions’
News
Health
Fertility drugs increase cancer risk
News
Health
Human DNA may set off AIDS timebomb
News
Earth
Lightning strikes give blizzard warning
News
Humans
Deficit in ‘poor’ brains identified
News
Humans
DNA is recovered from ancestral snack
News
Did meteorite smash kick-start life on Earth?
News
Physics
Spinning water droplets behave like black holes
News
Spanish Inquisition left genetic legacy in Iberia
News
Health
Electricity sparks stem-cell transformation
News
Humans
Bored? Your brain is disconnecting
News
Health
Life-saving lab made from paper and sticky tape
News
Space
Commercial space station finds first customers
News
Earth
Super-wipe cleans up deadly spills
News
Technology
Gizmo: ‘No-touch’ screens
News
Technology
Airborne Laser lets rip on first target
News
Life
Mitochondrial battery could sniff out explosives
News
Opinion
Transsexual children deserve better
Guidelines on drugs and surgery may be ignoring deeper social factors that affect children's sense of their own identity
Opinion
What nature could teach America about cybersecurity
Opinion
Modern lessons of ancient Greek computing
Opinion
Space
Why India must make its Moon probe pay
Opinion
Health
Seven unsolved medical mysteries
Opinion
Ideas that could save humanity
Opinion
Features
Physics
Did our cosmos exist before the big bang?
What if our universe didn't emerge from nothing, but is a recycled version of one that went before? Anil Ananthaswamy investigates
Features
Physics
Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer
Features
Humans
Are daughters-in-law to blame for the menopause?
Features
More
Review: Audubon: Early drawings
Artist John James Audubon is famous for his magnificent Birds of America, but his early drawings had a charm that is missing from his masterworks
Books & Arts
Review: Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart
Books & Arts
Review: The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman
Books & Arts
Space
Review: Mars 3D by Jim Bell
Books & Arts
Review: Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Portfolio 18
Books & Arts
Review: Cool Stuff Exploded by Chris Woodford
Books & Arts
Editor’s picks 2008
Books & Arts
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