Technology
A history of walking on water
Features
This week's magazine
19 December 2009
Issue 2739
Editor's picks
Physics
Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
Features
Technology
The shape of gifts to come
Features
Health
Little suckers: Putting leeches on a tight leash
Features
Health
Sugar-free satisfaction: Finding the brain’s sweet spot
Features
Physics
Getting to grips with why we slip
Features
Humans
Foot-in-mouth syndrome: Pitfalls of the party season
Features
Health
Pong-ology: Sniffing out a cure for iffy whiffs
Features
Let’s face it, science is boring
Features
Humans
Pain or prayer? Two ways to grow a religion
Features
Life
High-tech tipples: The future of cocktails
Features
Humans
Why your boss is incompetent
Features
Humans
Sex and shopping 鈥� it’s a guy thing
Features
Physics
Atomic dogs: The making of an internet sensation
Features
New 杏吧原创 2009 trivia quiz
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Battle for climate data approaches tipping point
Behind the "climategate" headlines, there are real struggles over access to climate records
News
Life
Microbes survive 30,000 years inside a salt crystal
News
Humans
Is synaesthesia a high-level brain power?
News
Health
BMJ criticisms of Tamiflu questioned
News
Space
Alien planet could be ultimate water world
News
Physics
Baby black holes implicated in universe’s mightiest rays
News
Earth
Dams linked to more extreme weather
News
DNA’s guardian gene found in placozoans
News
Life
Life in the inner galaxy would be bombarded by comets
News
Earth
Our atmosphere came from outer space
News
Health
Know a gene’s ‘parent’ to improve disease prediction
News
Life
Small fingers give women a sensitive touch
News
Health
Fake blood cells so agile they can carry drugs
News
Life
Octopuses use coconut shells as portable shelters
News
Technology
Chatbots add intelligence to Sherlock Holmes game
News
Life
Computer-aided design for life itself
News
Health
Flexible solar cell implant could restore vision
News
Earth
Geo software aims to avoid ski resort eco-disasters
News
Technology
Video-stitched cellphone streams go widescreen
News
2010: The preview
News
Space
2010 preview: The space shuttle’s last ride
News
Humans
2010 preview: Arise, Neanderthal brother
News
Technology
2010 preview: The polyglot web
News
Life
2010 preview: Is this the year that we create life?
News
Earth
2010 preview: Automotive X Prize contestants power up
News
Health
2010 preview: Tooth-mounted hearing aid for the masses
News
Health
2010 preview: Genome sequencing for all
News
Life
2010 preview: Journey to the bottom of the sea
News
Life
2010 preview: Waiting for ET to phone
News
Physics
2010 preview: Will a neutralino steal Higgs’s thunder?
News
Total recall: The milestones of 2009
News
杏吧原创s who put their lives on the line
News
Opinion
The noughties 鈥� a decade of Big Science
The decade now ending offers hope that we can build a more sustainable relationship with nature in the one to come
Opinion
Health
Free yourself from oppression by technology
Opinion
Humans
Richard Wrangham: Cooking is what made us human
Opinion
Bill Bryson: Everything that happens is amazing
Opinion
Life
Beware humans bearing gifts
Opinion
Features
Technology
A history of walking on water
How did the world's pre-eminent "aquatic pedestrian" stroll over the surface of the Mississippi river in 1907?
Features
Physics
Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
Features
Technology
The shape of gifts to come
Features
Health
Little suckers: Putting leeches on a tight leash
Features
Health
Sugar-free satisfaction: Finding the brain’s sweet spot
Features
Physics
Getting to grips with why we slip
Features
Humans
Foot-in-mouth syndrome: Pitfalls of the party season
Features
Health
Pong-ology: Sniffing out a cure for iffy whiffs
Features
Let’s face it, science is boring
Features
Humans
Pain or prayer? Two ways to grow a religion
Features
Life
High-tech tipples: The future of cocktails
Features
Humans
Why your boss is incompetent
Features
Humans
Sex and shopping 鈥� it’s a guy thing
Features
Physics
Atomic dogs: The making of an internet sensation
Features
New 杏吧原创 2009 trivia quiz
Features
