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Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us
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This week's magazine
3 October 2009
Issue 2728
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Rocket racers look for new home
After failing to build hangars the Rocket Racing League loses its lease on planned headquarters in New Mexico
News
‘Poetic’ autism film divides campaigners
News
A good year for Africa’s farmers, but worse to come
News
Whales trailed from safe haven to supermarket shelf
News
DNA tests show TB killed mummy
News
Computer detects abuse earlier than doctors
News
T. rex: dead for want of a dentist
News
60 Seconds
News
Experts call for Nobel prizes to be revamped
News
How astronauts could ‘harvest’ water on the moon
News
Physics
Mammoth black holes push universe to its doom
News
Earth
Illegal toxic waste spotted from space
News
What should we make of the HIV vaccine ‘triumph’?
News
Brain implants fail because they cut nerve links
News
Health
Sedatives may slow recovery from trauma
News
Earth
No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world
News
Feathered dinosaur older than earliest bird
News
Green roofs save on carbon overheads
News
How young rats learn: once bitten, twice shy
News
Lack of sleep linked to Alzheimer’s
News
Concepts form in the hippocampus
News
Earth
Cosmic rays reveal erupting volcano’s guts
News
Earth
India’s thirst is making us all wet
News
Physics
Asian quake could trigger California’s big one
News
Technology
Latest videos makes Google Earth cities bustle
News
Technology
Think yourself a sharper TV picture
News
Earth
A sprinkling of nanotubes makes plants shoot up
News
Technology
Virtual world disputes heading for real courtrooms
News
Technology
Aid agencies turn to open-source software
News
Technology
Portable pain weapon may end up in police hands
News
Opinion
Old MacDonald’s new farm
Advances in genetics could make it much easier to domesticate species. But do we want to?
Opinion
Nobel prizes for the 21st century
Opinion
Earth will be OK, but for us it’s not so good
Opinion
Technology
My book is mine, not Google’s
Opinion
Earth
Peter Zahler: Saving Afghanistan’s wildlife
Opinion
Health
Aimee Mullins: Two legs good, 24 legs better
Opinion
Features
Earth
Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us
If our civilisation collapses, what will happen to the planet itself? The best way to work that out is to look back at the Earth's past
Features
Earth
Better world: Top tech for a cleaner planet
Features
Life
My little zebra: The secrets of domestication
Features
Physics
Phantom storms: How our weather leaks into space
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