Physics
The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird
Features
This week's magazine
6 February 2010
Issue 2746
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Obama abandons moon shot but invests in science
US to boost funding for science but asks astronauts to use commercial launchers to hitch rides into space
News
Earth
New UN emissions pledges still stack up to 3.5掳C
News
Earth
Surf’s up as Pacific waves grow
News
Health
Are stem cell scientists sabotaging rivals’ work?
News
Earth
Bill Gates digs deep for geoengineering
News
Oil nay, nuclear yea, but not in Yucca
News
Health
Wanted: elderly human guinea pigs
News
Health
Mass drug overdose 鈥� none dead
News
Health
Giving the ‘unconscious’ a voice
News
Physics
Found: Hawking’s initials written into the universe
News
Health
Home test for sperm count could leave men in a mess
News
Imports mean UK emissions are up not down
News
Humans
Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs
News
Life
Nature’s hot green quantum computers revealed
News
Physics
At last we will know how bright the stars really are
News
Environment
Hippy apes caught cannibalising their young
News
Earth
Headache pill could save earthquake crush victims
News
Earth
Beware of geoengineering using volcanoes’ tricks
News
Earth
White roofs can cool cities
News
Earth
Water vapour worse climate change villain than thought
News
Physics
Giant laser reaches key milestone for fusion
News
Health
Chikungunya foiled by copycat ‘virus’
News
Health
Complex smells make food more filling
News
Physics
Dying stars eat comets for their last supper
News
Health
Did rice wine lead to flushed faces in Asia?
News
Physics
Synthetic cobwebs could boost chemical reactions
News
Technology
Hybrid video could lighten the search and rescue load
News
Physics
‘Superman’ vision penetrates opaque glass
News
Technology
A telescope that sets its sights on cyber-crime
News
Technology
Bad photographer? Aesthetic software will fix your photos
News
Space
Smart dust could give early warning of space storms
News
Technology
The location-based future of the web
News
Opinion
In conversation with ‘vegetative’ patients
We may now be able to communicate with people who seemed to be unresponsive
Opinion
Environment
Holster the harpoons till we have the facts
Opinion
Quantum biology has come in from the cold
Opinion
Health
Neurons for peace: Take the pledge, brain scientists
Opinion
Earth
Rob Hopkins: Getting over oil, one town at a time
Opinion
Life
Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism’s limits
Opinion
Features
Physics
The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird
No other liquid behaves quite as oddly, but a controversial new theory may finally have wrung out water's secrets
Features
Earth
First breath: Earth’s billion-year struggle for oxygen
Features
Earth
Lost leviathans: Hunting the world’s missing whales
Features
Technology
Unplugged: Goodbye cables, hello energy beams
Features
