Environment
Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown
Features
This week's magazine
12 December 2009
Issue 2738
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Mass poisoning to keep carp invaders from Great Lakes
Tens of thousands of fish have been killed in a drastic attempt to keep invasive Asian carp out of Lake Michigan
News
Earth
Wind farms don’t affect property prices
News
Earth
California gives green light to space solar power
News
Physics
Physicists race to publish first results from LHC
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Diligent diabetes control increases crash risk
News
Space
Burt Rutan: Behind the scenes at SpaceShipTwo roll-out
News
Environment
Anthrax study on baboons axed by university president
News
Earth
The research that might save us after Copenhagen
News
Health
Biological passport to catch sports cheats
News
Earth
Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled forest
News
Earth
Mega-flood filled the Mediterranean in months
News
Humans
Trust firstborns to show their selfish side
News
Physics
Higgs in space: Orbiting telescope could beat the LHC
News
Humans
Pregnant women develop emotion-reading superpowers
News
Health
Dirty babies get healthier hearts
News
Earth
Why there’s no sign of a climate conspiracy in hacked emails
News
Humans
How male bedbugs avoid getting shafted
News
Life
Frog embryos listen for bad vibrations to avoid snakes
News
Health
Eat protein to heal a damaged brain
News
Health
Gene absence makes the kid grow rounder
News
Earth
Cave ‘breathing’ regulates growth of stalactites
News
Environment
Early birds may have dropped teeth to get airborne
News
Space
Large moon of Uranus may explain odd tilt
News
Health
Avatar’s gaze illuminates social brain
News
Earth
Want fresh air? Give your house a nose job鈥�
News
Technology
Innovation: Making a map for everyone, by everyone
News
Technology
Paper screens could provide depth to computer display
News
Technology
Learning to love to hate robots
News
Earth
Battery lithium could come from geothermal waste water
News
Technology
Smart CCTV learns to spot suspicious types
News
Technology
Motion-sensing phones that predict your every move
News
Opinion
English libel law on trial
Decisions in the English courts can stifle debate of scientific ideas anywhere in the world 鈥� it's time the law was reformed
Opinion
Time’s up for psychiatry’s bible
Opinion
Who is controlling the spy in your pocket?
Opinion
Health
Cellphones and cancer: Interphone can’t end the debate
Opinion
Space
Martin Rees: Getting to the right desks in government
Opinion
Physics
Stephen Wolfram: ‘I’m an information pack rat’
Opinion
Features
Environment
Dogs vs cats: The great pet showdown
Which makes the best furry friend? We set canine against feline in a scientific best in show 鈥� the winner is revealed here
Features
Health
Psychiatry’s civil war
Features
Life
Rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter
Features
Physics
The perfect way to slice a pizza
Features
