How to make your own high-tech Christmas gifts
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This week's magazine
20 December 2008
Issue 2687
Editor's picks
Humans
Magicology: Casting a spell on the mind
Features
Technology
The return of Elektro, the first celebrity robot
Features
Earth
How kangaroo burgers could save the planet
Features
Humans
How to knit a brain
Features
Technology
Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect
Features
Earth
Chocolate in peril
Features
Mind
How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage
Features
Humans
DNA dating: Can genes help you pick a mate?
Features
Space
Bye-bye boojums: Scientific names lose their sparkle
Features
Physics
The scientific guide to gift wrapping
Features
Humans
What killed Dr Granville’s mummy?
Features
End of year quiz
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Blight hits world’s vanilla supply
An unknown fungus is wiping out vast tracts of vanilla plantations in Madagascar, which supplies two-thirds of the world's pods
News
Switch to biofuels boosts insect pest
News
Is the Exxon Valdez oil spill finally cleaned up?
News
Earth
Nobel laureate to be next US energy secretary
News
Health
Struggle over bird flu samples drags on
News
Humans
Judges junk bogus neuroscience
News
Health
Malaria bed nets’ usefulness is their downfall
News
Earliest spider web and more
News
World leaders ‘failing to get’ climate message
News
Physics
Calls to scrap the ‘leap second’ grow
News
‘It appears that she does it for her own satisfaction’
News
Space
Burrowing black holes devoured first stars from within
News
Mind
Monthly shot to stop alcoholics’ holiday relapse
News
Earth
Great fireworks, shame about the toxic fallout
News
Mind-reading software reveals brain images
News
Technology
Transparent memory makes for see-through phones
News
Technology
Satnav device gets the shopping done fast
News
Technology
Software plays pop mogul
News
Technology
Gizmo: Nanny cars
News
Physics
Flaw may have sent Beagle 2 to a fiery doom
News
Earth
Snowflake maker to improve weather forecasts
News
Earth
News review 2008: The year in science
News
Space
News review 2008: The year NASA’s star began to wane
News
Space
News review 2008: Asia’s space race takes off
News
Earth
News review 2008: Reality returns to the White House
News
Earth
News review 08: China quakes, but the dams don’t break
News
Physics
News review 2008: Large Hadron Collider makes physics sexy
News
Humans
News review 2008: Gay people may be born that way
News
News review 2008: Oil shock hits the world
News
News review 2008: Hunger bites as food crisis deepens
News
Humans
Ecstasy over G spot therapy
News
News review 2008: Human genes become commodities
News
News review 2008: How ‘rocket science’ failed the banks
News
News review 2008: The best and worst of the year
News
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: New world order on climate
Though Europe has lost its way, America and the UN could reinvigorate efforts to curb climate change
Opinion
Editorial: Let’s keep science festive
Opinion
Health
Editorial: Beagle 2 and the dangers of spin
Opinion
Whose science is it anyway?
Opinion
Earth
The man who collects molten lava for a living
Opinion
Life
Who did most to knock man off his pedestal?
Opinion
Physics
Reasons to be jolly about 2008
Opinion
Features
How to make your own high-tech Christmas gifts
Put down those knitting needles and pack away your cake tins 鈥� this year home-made gifts are going all high-tech
Features
Humans
Magicology: Casting a spell on the mind
Features
Technology
The return of Elektro, the first celebrity robot
Features
Earth
How kangaroo burgers could save the planet
Features
Humans
How to knit a brain
Features
Technology
Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect
Features
Earth
Chocolate in peril
Features
Mind
How to make cheap wine taste like a fine vintage
Features
Humans
DNA dating: Can genes help you pick a mate?
Features
Space
Bye-bye boojums: Scientific names lose their sparkle
Features
Physics
The scientific guide to gift wrapping
Features
Humans
What killed Dr Granville’s mummy?
Features
End of year quiz
Features
