How you can make the world a better place
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This week's magazine
19 September 2009
Issue 2726
Editor's picks
Big thinkers, big ideas
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Earth
Better world: Get real
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Earth
Better world: Eat more plants
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Life
Better world: Be nice to people
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Health
Better world: Screen your genes
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Earth
Better world: Share things
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Earth
Better world: Pimp your house
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Earth
Better world: Move to the city
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Earth
Better world: Consume sceptically
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Health
Better world: Vaccinate your children
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Earth
Better world: Offset your emissions
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Earth
Trash trackers: The secret life of garbage
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Life
Rethinking the bee’s waggle dance
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Technology
Quantum computers are coming 鈥� just don’t ask when
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Table of contents
News
US poorly prepared for dirty bomb cleanup
Government has no detailed plan for cleaning up radioactive material from US cities after a dirty bomb
News
Geothermal energy on shaky ground
News
Health
Unchecked healthcare costs will ruin America
News
Polar bears run riot as ice melts
News
Health
Alan Turing gets belated apology
News
60 Seconds
News
Online booze guide helps students drink less
News
Wheat hero is dead, but killer fungus still threatens
News
Humans
Brain science to help teachers get into kids’ heads
News
Health
Mystery immunity could boost swine flu protection
News
Don’t blame it all on dad’s absence
News
Health
Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars
News
Can we create quantum creatures in the lab?
News
Technology
Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god
News
Health
Genetic seamstress uses molecular fingers to tweak DNA
News
Earth
Fair carbon means no carbon for rich countries
News
Mouse takes off 鈥� thanks to magnets
News
Master gene controls natural killer cells
News
Brain cells less power-hungry than we thought
News
Shower heads make a perfect home for bugs
News
Environment
Naked mole rats may help cure cancer
News
Life
Mystery of horned females solved
News
Eye movements reveal processing of hidden memories
News
Physics
When opposite charges repel
News
Technology
Flying Armadillo has the power to escape the moon
News
Health
Satnav means you won’t touch that dial
News
Technology
The noses that know who smokes
News
Technology
Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start
News
Technology
Army heli-Weeble hops to avoid rubble trouble
News
Technology
Installing a 3D-ready television might be premature
News
Technology
Robots get smarter by asking for help
News
Opinion
Science and science fiction
Enter our short story competition and help us understand the way things really are 鈥� or how they might be
Opinion
Let’s junk the throwaway society
Opinion
In praise of a new science of learning
Opinion
Life
Why bankers are like bacteria
Opinion
Life
Trevor Nunn stages the 1920s Tennessee ‘monkey trial’
Opinion
Humans
Why are we the naked ape?
Opinion
Features
How you can make the world a better place
In part 2 of our "Better world" special, we look at what individuals can do to make a difference
Features
Big thinkers, big ideas
Features
Earth
Better world: Get real
Features
Earth
Better world: Eat more plants
Features
Life
Better world: Be nice to people
Features
Health
Better world: Screen your genes
Features
Earth
Better world: Share things
Features
Earth
Better world: Pimp your house
Features
Earth
Better world: Move to the city
Features
Earth
Better world: Consume sceptically
Features
Health
Better world: Vaccinate your children
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Earth
Better world: Offset your emissions
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Earth
Trash trackers: The secret life of garbage
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Life
Rethinking the bee’s waggle dance
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Technology
Quantum computers are coming 鈥� just don’t ask when
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