Extreme Weather: Hurricane hunting
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This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Extreme Weather: Heat engines
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Extreme Weather: Concentrated fury
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Extreme Weather: Driving forces
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Humans
Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain
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Life
Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex
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Technology
Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer
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Table of contents
News
BP’s head of safety admits human error over oil spill
The first head-to-head meeting between BP and government-appointed investigators has highlighted operating errors aboard Deepwater Horizon
News
Earth
Hawaii will face more frequent cyclones
News
Is this the start of the element wars?
News
Environment
Why the Stuxnet worm is like nothing seen before
News
Health
Ban all tobacco advertising, say US paediatricians
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Modified contraceptive treats cancer of the uterus
News
Health
Artificial fertility treatments create a sex bias
News
Physics
Countdown to oblivion: Why time itself could end
News
Humans
Sparks fly over origin of altruism
News
Earth
A fifth of all wild plant species face extinction
News
Physics
Hawking radiation glimpsed in artificial black hole
News
Addicts to get no kick from cocaine
News
Physics
Sound can leap across a vacuum after all
News
Health
Pulses of light spark muscle movement
News
Physics
Levitating graphene is fastest-spinning object ever
News
Environment
Large brains bust baggage allowance for migratory bats
News
Physics
Standing on a stepladder makes you age faster
News
Life
Meet Kosmoceratops, the horniest vegetarian dinosaur
News
Health
The slippery slope to obesity
News
Health
Antidepressants make people less likely to harm others
News
Life
Fungi generate their own mini wind to go the distance
News
Health
Leading cause of blindness identified
News
Technology
Maker Faire: From icy love to electrical Play-Doh
News
Technology
Anyone can dupe biometric scanner
News
Technology
How did you get to work today? I took the Shweeb
News
Technology
Ditch the glasses for lifelike 3D
News
Health
Titanium foam builds Wolverine bones
News
Technology
Charge your phone with a beach towel
News
Health
Scratched glasses give perfect vision for any eyesight
News
Opinion
Time for teachers to take another look at neuroscience
If the gulf between neuroscience and education theory was unbridgeable, it may not be for much longer
Opinion
The value of asking ‘What if?’
Opinion
Health
Should psychoanalysis be in the Science Museum?
Opinion
Earth
Jeffrey Sachs: Poverty is multidimensional
Opinion
Health
Oliver Sacks: Why I’m a resident alien
Opinion
Features
Extreme Weather: Hurricane hunting
Meet Jeff Masters, who flies into hurricanes to test their strength
Features
Extreme Weather: Heat engines
Features
Extreme Weather: Concentrated fury
Features
Extreme Weather: Driving forces
Features
Humans
Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain
Features
Life
Fossil secrets of the Leonardo da Vinci codex
Features
Technology
Breaking the noise barrier: Enter the phonon computer
Features
