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This week's magazine



Table of contents

News

Health

Almost half of US could be obese by 2050

A new model predicts levels of obesity in the US will plateau in 40 years, when 40 per cent of the population will be obese

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Space

Former ‘tenth planet’ may be smaller than Pluto

News

Earth

Midterms change political landscape for climate control

News

Europe’s biofuels will increase carbon emissions

News

60 Seconds

News

LHC starts making ‘mini big bangs’

News

Space

Fuel tank crack is latest of shuttle Discovery’s woes

News

Earth

Human evolution was shaped by plate tectonics

News

Physics

Nuclear bomb debris holds clues to who planted it

News

Life

Born to laugh, we learn to cry

News

Earth

Countdown to ‘thermogeddon’ has begun

News

Health

Personal genomics tests prompt lifestyle changes

News

Health

Blood bubbles promise new treatments for brain disease

News

Life

Fungal threads are the internet of the plant world

News

Physics

Cloaking effect in atoms baffles scientists

News

Health

Red light forces cancer cells to suck up drugs

News

Space

Quasars fingered for cosmic climate change

News

Earth

10-year hurricane forecasts are on the way

News

Humans

Evolutionary sex wars continue despite peace treaties

News

Physics

Ice and a slice makes transistors more precise

News

Physics

Strange matter flow suggests inflation was incomplete

News

Space

Space telescope spots ‘invisible’ galaxies

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Humans

Electrical brain stimulation improves math skills

News

Technology

First green semiconductor laser plugs spectrum gap

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Technology

All-seeing eye for CCTV surveillance

News

Technology

E Ink unveils first colour e-reader

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Life

Divers could breathe deep with liquid-filled lungs

News

Technology

US internet hosts are linchpin of criminal botnets

News

Earth

Edward Norton: What’s the first rule of Peace Club?

News