Life
How your looks betray your personality
Features
This week's magazine
14 February 2009
Issue 2695
Editor's picks
Health
Electronic cigarettes: A safe substitute?
Features
Physics
Mathematics: The only true universal language
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: The dating game
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: Say it with flowers
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: Making an impression
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: K*I*S*S*I*N*G
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day special: Together forever
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Climate models predicted Australian bushfires
Even early warning couldn't stop last weekend's bush fires in Victoria claiming 170 lives and over 700 homes
News
Fresh controversy about Iraqi death estimate
News
Conflict brews over science in US stimulus package
News
Ditch meat, save the Earth?
News
Cost of DNA sequencing falls to record low
News
Earth
Protected mangroves face petroleum threat
News
Physics
Autumn restart lands LHC with huge electricity bill
News
Anti-HIV hope, Tainted baby syrup, and more
News
Health
Ecstasy’s long-term effects revealed
News
‘I brought some mosquitoes…’
News
Earth
Honeybees under attack on all fronts
News
Space
‘Dark’ comets may pose threat to Earth
News
Climate history flags up biological hotspots
News
Just how advanced is Iran’s space programme?
News
Gene caps may turn viruses cancerous
News
Health
Hypnosis used to induce ‘synaesthesia’
News
Earth
African fisheries hit hardest by climate change
News
Earth
North Atlantic is world’s ‘climate superpower’
News
Earth
Why females lead the pack
News
Humans
Subliminal messages really do affect your decisions
News
Space
What’s painting dark streaks on Mars?
News
Green tea blocks cancer drug in mice
News
Chemical drink breathes life into damaged hearts
News
Parasitic butterflies dupe hosts with ant music
News
Health
Injection boosts memory in Alzheimer’s animals
News
Antarctic bulge could flood Washington DC
News
Technology
Apple raises two fingers in battle over multi-touch screens
News
Earth
Solar cells feel the butterfly effect
News
Technology
Life’s no beach for robot rovers
News
Technology
Cellphones tap wisdom of the crowds
News
Technology
How yo-yoing in the dark teaches robots to walk
News
Technology
Nanotubes outshine costly platinum as fuel-cell catalyst
News
Technology
Trapped rainbows could make optical computing a reality
News
Opinion
Editorial: Drugs drive politicians out of their minds
Isn't it about time that the risks of ecstasy were judged against known dangers, not newspaper distortions and scare stories?
Opinion
Editorial: Australian bushfire policy needs review
Opinion
Editorial: What’s in a kiss?
Opinion
Life
When eight children is seven too many
Opinion
Life
Alien hunt is too exciting to ignore
Opinion
Commentary: The world needs a slogan for climate change
Opinion
Features
Life
How your looks betray your personality
Does the face give away uncomfortable truths about the person within? Roger Highfield investigates, while the idea is put to the test by Richard Wiseman and Rob Jenkins
Features
Health
Electronic cigarettes: A safe substitute?
Features
Physics
Mathematics: The only true universal language
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: The dating game
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: Say it with flowers
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: Making an impression
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day Special: K*I*S*S*I*N*G
Features
Humans
Valentine’s Day special: Together forever
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