Life
Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting
Features
This week's magazine
30 October 2010
Issue 2784
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Solar power could crash Germany’s grid
Soon there could be so many solar cells in Germany that the country's power system will be overwhelmed
News
Earth
Suicide-by-pesticide study ranks compound toxicity
News
Earth
Air of defeat at Japan’s biodiversity summit
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Haiti capital braced for cholera
News
Earth
Space tourism could have big impact on climate
News
Physics
Indian neutrino lab to boast world’s biggest magnet
News
Earth
Almost a fifth of vertebrate species are endangered
News
Health
All eyes on California for marijuana ballot
News
Life
Superhero suit to strengthen astronauts’ bones
News
Health
Brain link lets people choose images by thought alone
News
Earth
Will we cope if the rare earths live up to their name?
News
Life
Heavy hydrogen keeps yeast looking good
News
Life
Did life begin with a bolt from the deep blue?
News
Health
The tongue in your lung that fights asthma
News
Technology
Smallest electric engine could power nanomachines
News
Earth
Warm weather sets lowland skink sex
News
Physics
Coming soon: LHC for molecules
News
Space
LCROSS mission may have struck silver on the moon
News
Humans
Blue light taps directly into your emotions
News
Life
Thank ancient fertiliser for complex life
News
Humans
Children really do see things differently
News
Earth
Ancient bugs reveal early link from India to Asia
News
Technology
Google cars nabbed email addresses and passwords
News
Technology
Captcha adverts capture your attention
News
Technology
Robots could ditch fingers for beanbags
News
Technology
Machine intelligence put to test in alien world
News
Technology
Caught on video: Why BA 009 rose from the ashes
News
Technology
Device gives parents their child’s eye view
News
Opinion
Time to legalise marijuana
A vote in California offers a rare a chance to move away from the failed "war on drugs"
Opinion
Earth
Professional climate change deniers’ crusade continues
Opinion
Physics
UK’s chief measurer: Units unite the world
Opinion
Earth
Why western science conquered the world
Opinion
Features
Life
Snoop dogs: The rise of DNA pawprinting
Man's best friend is turning into a witness for the prosecution, with canine evidence cracking crimes from dogfighting to murder
Features
Humans
Putting your intelligence to the ultimate test
Features
Technology
Traffic jam: the coming cellphone crunch
Features
Technology
Model citizens: Building SimEarth
Features
Culture
Machine needs: How technology is shaping humanity
In What Technology Wants, tech guru Kevin Kelly sees the "technium" as a seamless extension of complex biology, evolving by the same rules
Culture
Can the biology of being gay combat bigotry?
Culture
Yves Klein: artist or geoengineer ahead of his time?
Culture
The invention of race
Culture
Everyday life in moreish bite-sized science
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Has your death affected your life?
What to do if you have a family history of death, advertisers "up to" no good, and a cure for chronic woman disease
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Letters
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Last Word
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Pine flu
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