Physics
Cosmic clocks: Relativity’s final test
Features
This week's magazine
20 March 2010
Issue 2752
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Recipe for rarity: fish threatened by cookbooks
A study of seafood recipes over 122 years has shown that the prestige of big, predatory fish has grown even as overfishing has slashed their numbers
News
Physics
Fake dark matter could show what real stuff is like
News
Health
Payout offered to 9/11 dust plume victims
News
Health
Anti-vaccine autism campaigners lose court battle
News
Earth
Energy-efficient homes make householders complacent
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Boom time for Arctic animals
News
Space
Could moon rocket demise bring space shuttle reprieve?
News
Earth
Polluting ships have been doing the climate a favour
News
Life
Fingerprint evidence to harden up at last
News
Technology
What’s the point of nuclear weapons on instant alert?
News
Space
Hurtling star on a path to clip solar system
News
Physics
Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon
News
Earth
Corruption raises doubts over ivory sales
News
Humans
How to move the brain with a Japanese line drawing
News
Space
Moon marriage may have given Jupiter a ring
News
Earth
Mind-reading gorillas love a good game
News
Life
‘Wasabi’ gene gives snakes night vision
News
Physics
Metal mist clears for fusion power
News
Health
Levitate cancer cells for rapid 3D tissue
News
Life
‘Bug’ prints can put you at crime scene
News
Health
Brain chemical is reward for psychopathic traits
News
Life
HDTV reveals brainy octopus has no personality
News
Life
Bee hotel trains residents as bomb sniffers
News
Technology
Virtual ears help architects cut chatter confusion
News
Technology
Crystals + sound + water = clean hydrogen fuel
News
Technology
‘Credit card theft? There’s an app for that’
News
Technology
Are machines ready to break down language barriers?
News
Technology
Motion sensors could track troops when GPS cuts out
News
Technology
Spy in the sky that sees round corners
News
Opinion
Fingerprints put forensics on trial
The issues raised by fingerprint evidence go to the heart of what it means to be a scientist
Opinion
Reasons to welcome gene-silencing pesticides
Opinion
Physics
Barefoot statistics: Data for the people
Opinion
Physics
Brian Cox: From pop music to pop physics
Opinion
Earth
Stewart Brand: From hippy icon to nuclear enthusiast
Opinion
Features
Physics
Cosmic clocks: Relativity’s final test
Pulsars tick with absolute regularity. So if these stellar corpses' timekeeping is off, something must be warping space-time
Features
Earth
Bugs beware: we’re gunning for your genes
Features
Humans
Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from
Features
Physics
The predictioneer: Using games to see the future
Features
