Humans
Born believers: How your brain creates God
Features
This week's magazine
7 February 2009
Issue 2694
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Acid oceans no laughing matter for clownfish
The larvae of the fish that was popularised in the children's film Finding Nemo may have trouble sniffing out a suitable reef home if ocean acidity continues to rise
News
Conflict leaves Gaza’s agriculture in ruins
News
Health
Mouse brains suggest Ritalin is addictive
News
Mars Spirit rover reports good health
News
Deep freeze survivors, Cisco quake risk, and more
News
Racial profiling no better than random screening
News
Earth
World treaty to block illegal sea fishing
News
Health
Nigerian Pfizer trial to be heard in US
News
Life
Kepler telescope launches to hunt for alien Earths
News
Earth
Conventional crop breeding may be more harmful than GM
News
Soundbites: Futurologist school, Terrorist rodents, and more
News
Fatal blow for stem cells from human-animal hybrids?
News
Humans
Can experiences be passed on to offspring?
News
Space
Asteroid bound for Earth! Warn your grandchildren
News
Humans
How to control a herd of humans
News
Health
Squid symbiosis may shed light on disease
News
El Ni帽o in the clear over ‘Big Dry’
News
Sinking crop waste could cut global warming
News
Giant snake fossil hints at a hotter future
News
Early hominins were nutcrackers
News
Rebuilding the immune system may reverse MS
News
Blocking ‘happiness’ chemical may prevent locust plagues
News
Health
Mutant worms raise hopes for stroke treatment
News
Moon linked to earthquakes at last
News
Humans
How the fetal brain wires up for action
News
Health
‘Living doll’ made of human cancer cells
News
Technology
Bosses to blame for computer attacks
News
Technology
Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve
News
Technology
Google dives beneath the waves
News
Space
NASA plans to take the boom out of supersonic flight
News
Technology
Laser trick makes lab-on-a-chip more versatile
News
Opinion
The credit crunch could be a boon for irrational belief
One thing that science can tell us about hard times is that religion will prosper
Opinion
GM faces unfair regulation in Europe
Opinion
Editorial: The Obama factor, revealed
Opinion
Beware Earth-shattering headlines
Opinion
Bringing blue-sky thinking down to earth
Opinion
Health
Why the Catholic church can’t ignore science
Opinion
Health
Why do we need bras for babies?
Opinion
Features
Humans
Born believers: How your brain creates God
No wonder religion is so prevalent in human society 鈥� our brains are primed for it, says Michael Brooks
Features
Physics
Auroras: What powers the greatest light show on Earth?
Features
Physics
Super clocks: More accurate than time itself
Features
Humans
What’s the point of being warm-blooded?
Features
Earth
1709: The year that Europe froze
Features
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Enigma No. 1531
Regulars
Review: Darwin’s Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Darwin’s Island by Steve Jones
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Remarkable Creatures by Sean B Carroll
Books & Arts
Darwin in his own words
Books & Arts
Life
Review: On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Books & Arts
Review: Evolutionary Writings by Charles Darwin, edited by James A Secord
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Darwin’s Lost World by Martin Brasier
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Evolution: The first four billion years edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis
Books & Arts
Life
Review: Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
Books & Arts
Life
Review: The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson
Books & Arts
