Physics
Is a cosmic chameleon driving galaxies apart?
Features
This week's magazine
31 July 2010
Issue 2771
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
US food waste worth more than offshore drilling
A study of the energetic value of food wasted in the US each year shows the scale of the problem
News
Space
Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer
News
Health
Why IVF pioneers were denied public money
News
Physics
What comes after the Large Hadron Collider?
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Time to go atomic on space station
News
Earth
Climategate data sets to be made public
News
Health
Anti-vaccination website poses public health risk
News
Life
Morphosaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
News
Earth
Climategate scientist breaks his silence
News
Physics
Quantum electron ‘submarines’ help push atoms around
News
Health
Regulation could save genome scanning, not kill it
News
Physics
Spinning black holes could expose exotic particles
News
Space
Cosmic Trojans may sneak comets towards Earth
News
Humans
Twitter mood maps reveal emotional states of America
News
Earth
Solar cycle may drive Venice’s floods
News
Health
Gene variant role in Parkinson’s uncovered
News
Environment
Why dogs and their owners are so alike
News
‘Buckyballs’ spotted in interstellar space
News
Humans
We humans can mind-meld too
News
Life
Bellyflopping frogs shed light on evolution
News
Health
Single gene could be key to a baby’s first breath
News
Physics
Triple-slit experiment confirms reality is quantum
News
Technology
Google tracks political allegiances
News
Health
Computer supermaterial could stop your shoes smelling
News
Health
Locked-in people could control wheelchairs by sniffing
News
Technology
Google, Twitter and Facebook build the semantic web
News
Space
Satellite quantum communication circles closer
News
Technology
Ageing irises could confound biometric checks
News
Technology
Team-working robots huddle together to boost comms
News
Opinion
End dirty tactics in the climate war
Disagreements over climate change will be resolved only by reasoned debate, not vitriol and harassment
Opinion
Not all shaken baby convictions are sound
Opinion
Earth
Who’s afraid of radiation?
Opinion
Life
Neuroscientist: Brain scans may improve careers advice
Opinion
Earth
Beyond decibels: Planning the new sounds of the city
Opinion
Features
Physics
Is a cosmic chameleon driving galaxies apart?
A shape-shifting fifth fundamental force could neatly explain the mystery of dark energy 鈥� and some other puzzling astronomical observations
Features
Life
Military power law: The equations of body counts
Features
Environment
Size isn’t everything: The big brain myth
Features
Health
Fever: friend or foe?
Features
More
Enigma Number 1606
Regulars
Off-grid campaigner: Inspiring today’s US pioneers
Books & Arts
Take an astronaut and rocket away from normality
Books & Arts
Voyager: A robotic Columbus for the space age
Books & Arts
Mathematical mystery tour
Books & Arts
How big is the universe? And 19 other questions
Books & Arts
