Physics
Does gravity change with the seasons?
Features
This week's magazine
18 April 2009
Issue 2704
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Tax on sweet drinks may fight obesity
Two US states are proposing a "penny-per-ounce" tax on sweet drinks to reduce consumption, but the measure may be hard to justify
News
Health
Aerial bombs as deadly as suicide bombers
News
Stem-cell treatment for diabetes really does seem to work
News
Earth
Melting Arctic may be poisoning its people
News
Health
Stem cells free diabetics from insulin treatment
News
Earth
White House and Congress dither over climate
News
A reason to bee cheerful, Martian twin study, and more
News
Space
Space station may win a new lease of life
News
Technology
US to slash funding for ‘exotic’ missile defences
News
Earth
Can oil from tar sands be cleaned up?
News
Are women born with a limited number of eggs?
News
‘People have spent the night in their bathtubs because they are so freaked out by bedbugs’
News
Physics
Avoid a future cataclysm: Forget the past
News
Life
Sunbird learns to hover for sweet reward
News
Earth
Asteroids won’t raise killer waves – but mind the splash
News
Health
Magnetised stem cells could treat arthritis
News
Health
Mind gym helps people live with schizophrenia
News
Earth
Quake rumbles give quick tsunami warnings
News
Girl with Y chromosome sheds light on maleness
News
Physics
‘Failed stars’ may be common in our galaxy
News
Curved laser beams could help tame thunderclouds
News
Earth
Curved laser beams could help tame thunderclouds
News
Life
Girl with Y chromosome sheds light on maleness
News
Life
Do ‘vicious’ dogs learn from their owners?
News
Humans
‘Fraction cells’ found in human brain
News
Climate change may afflict Europe’s pets with new diseases
News
Life
Do aliens share our genetic code?
News
Earth
Pets may become latest victims of climate change
News
Technology
Microwaves could defuse bombs from afar
News
Space
SpaceX readies for first commercial launch
News
Earth
Attention-seeking objects will be hard to part with
News
Health
Transformers: Protecting pedestrians from killer cars
News
Space
Space sail could bring used rockets back to Earth
News
Physics
Sporty software reveals where blurred balls are heading
News
Earth
Straw house beats the shakes in earthquake test
News
Life
Top 10: Life’s greatest inventions
News
Opinion
Back to which future?
Terminator, eat your heart out: evil machine intelligences of the future could use quantum mechanics to help them wipe out humanity
Opinion
It’s a small world after all
Opinion
Health
Silencing the voices isn’t a cure for schizophrenia
Opinion
Earth
Carbon trading won’t stop climate change
Opinion
Viewfinder
Opinion
Humans
Choice blindness: You don’t know what you want
Opinion
Features
Physics
Does gravity change with the seasons?
Isaac Newton wondered why apples fall downwards, not sideways. He didn't think to ask if they'd fall faster in the spring 鈥� but now today's theoreticians are doing just that
Features
Earth
Green and mean: The downside of clean energy
Features
Health
Why some people sneeze when the sun comes out
Features
Earth
Where’s the remotest place on Earth?
Features
Technology
Online gaming the Victorian way
Features
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