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General relativity: Einstein’s insight

General relativity: Past, present and future

Solar eclipse

General relativity: Physicist, superstar

General relativity: Black holes

General relativity: The expanding universe

General relativity: Gravitational waves

General relativity: The dark universe

General relativity: Quantum gravity

Technology

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Humans

Curious liaisons: Nature’s weirdest sex lives

Space

Zodiacal light: zombie comets to blame

Table of contents

News

Gulf oil spill poses unique health challenges

How the oil and the clean-up will be making people sick in body and mind for years to come

Health

US obesity keeps on rising

Earth

Bid to introduce commercial whaling quotas fails

Health

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK

New animal experiment guidelines issued for UK

60 Seconds

Space

Closet delay means shuttles set to fly on into 2011

Space

Obama declares war on space junk

Health

Superhuman performance could betray sport drug cheats

Physics

Ghostly, flowing supersolid? No, it’s quantum plastic

Life

Fossilised cell blobs could be oldest multicellular life

Life

If you’ve got great genes, it pays to be extrovert

Life

On the origin of species 鈥� by means of pheromones

Health

Tutankhamen ‘killed by sickle-cell disease’

Physics

Cosmic bubble made cold spot in big bang afterglow

Health

Link found between infectious disease and IQ

Earth

‘Giant hand’ pushed up coast of Scotland

Physics

Supernovae don’t make the biggest atoms

Earth

Ancient African lake fertilises the Amazon

Humans

Sense of touch influences our decisions

Space

Half-eaten dwarf planet reveals chemical secrets

Life

DNA tests to reveal ancestral villages

Health

Natural killer cells are at root of hair-loss disease

Physics

Gamma rays may betray clumps of dark matter

Earth

Warm climates boost bird beak size

Humans

Fear must be conquered, not banished

Technology

Water droplets create multilayered display

Technology

Share information to boost cellphone performance

Health

Lung-on-a-chip points to alternative to animal tests

Technology

Search engines learn how to watch and listen to video

Technology

Smartphone add-on will bring eye tests to the masses

Technology

USB coffee-cup warmer could be stealing your data

Technology

New plastic recipe thwarts interfering old bags

Opinion

Health

Make every animal experiment count

If we do research on animals, it must be top quality, says Vicky Robinson

Tour the foundations of science

Technology

Google should answer some searching questions

Life

It’s too late to worry that the aliens will find us

Earth

SkyTruth founder: Remote sensing for the people

Technology

Virtual prisons: how e-maps are curtailing our freedom

Features

General relativity: Einstein’s insight

How Einstein moved from his 1905 special theory of relativity to general relativity a decade later, via a brainwave he had at his day job

General relativity: Past, present and future

General relativity: Physicist, superstar

General relativity: Black holes

General relativity: The expanding universe

General relativity: Gravitational waves

General relativity: The dark universe

General relativity: Quantum gravity

Technology

From sea to sky: Submarines that fly

Humans

Curious liaisons: Nature’s weirdest sex lives

Space

Zodiacal light: zombie comets to blame

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Earth

‘Climategate’ jibes fly over El Ni帽o impact on warming

It turns out El Ni帽o may not have had such a large effect on recent climate change as a controversial paper published last year suggested

Enigma Number 1602

The climate scandal that never was

Why people indulge in cannibalism and love modern art

Apocalypse, but not right now

The ancients got it right 鈥� sometimes

The long quest for the origins of mass

Regulars

When did Jesus develop a halo?

Divine fetuses, a brain CT becomes a blank CD, and revolutionary tactics at the supermarket

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Rambling rose bug

Whispering trees

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