Humans
Alpha, beta, gamma: The language of brainwaves
Features
This week's magazine
10 July 2010
Issue 2768
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Debate over gender disorder drug
A drug for preventing "abnormal" genitalia in girls has raised ethical issues in the US
News
Reclusive mathematician turns down $1 million prize
News
Technology
Russian spy ring hid secret messages on the web
News
Microwave universe: Planck’s first hi-res image
News
60 Seconds
News
Environment
US cellphone expansion could deafen radio astronomers
News
Earth
Rio hopes of conservation cash were never met
News
Space
Star wars: a new hope for arms control in space
News
Health
Antibody cuts brain damage in strokes
News
Life
Gene switches sexual desires of female mice
News
Physics
Wanted: little levers to probe the quantum divide
News
Incredible shrinking proton raises eyebrows
News
Earth
Prehistoric humans may have pushed climate change
News
Life
Can a gene test tell you whether you’ll live to 100?
News
Life
Dolphins make their last stand in the Mediterranean
News
Humans
Football results influence voters
News
Life
Winning on home turf drives desire for future fights
News
Space
How the moon got its whiskers
News
Earth
How plants get by when pollinators vanish
News
Physics
Glooped-up desk toy probes weird wet collisions
News
Earth
Oxygen therapy slows mouse wrinkles
News
Earth
Climate change could drive crocs out of the water
News
Humans
Tibetans adapted to high life at record-breaking rate
News
Technology
Animated 3D models extracted from single-camera video
News
Technology
Ad system that can spot an online shopper
News
Health
Invisible weapons to fight fake drugs
News
Technology
Casimir effect put to work as a nano-switch
News
Earth
Stabilisers will let deep-sea wind turbines stand tall
News
Health
Solid-state systems could sequence a genome for $100
News
Opinion
Peace must reign in space
Barack Obama's new stance on space weapons is a welcome U-turn
Opinion
The joy of Facebook
Opinion
Rule out nothing in the investigation of cancer
Opinion
Life
You can’t fight violence with violence
Opinion
Space
Pope’s astronomer: ‘Science helps me be a priest’
Opinion
Earth
Pioneer aquanaut: How not to clean up an oil spill
Opinion
Features
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