Physics
Quantum time travel: Black hole not required
Features
This week's magazine
20 November 2010
Issue 2787
Editor's picks
Life
Culture club: All species welcome
Features
Life
Giant enigma: The fossil log that isn’t
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Google and beyond
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Machines appreciate pictures
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Into the deep web
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: The cyber crystal ball
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Search-friendly spam
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Planned US bio-lab is riskier than officials say
Danger and costs of an escape of foot and mouth virus from a proposed government facility are greater than officials estimate, a new report says
News
Is Jupiter’s lost stripe making a comeback?
News
Health
Haiti faces years of cholera
News
Health
‘Gross’ disease images best at making smokers quit
News
Earth
Row erupts over number of big fish in the sea
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Over-budget telescope threatens other projects
News
Space
Spacecraft is first to bring asteroid dust to Earth
News
Environment
Gene detectives track the rhino killers
News
Health
One day, cells from skin might repair your spine
News
Physics
Summon a ‘demon’ to turn information into energy
News
Humans
Is this evidence that we can see the future?
News
Physics
Antihydrogen trapped at long last
News
Is this proof that spooky auras are real?
News
Physics
How to cloak a crime in a beam of light
News
Earth
Life is found in deepest layer of Earth’s crust
News
Life
Zoologger: The solar-powered electric hornet
News
Life
Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars
News
Health
Compound combats triple-negative breast cancer in lab
News
Environment
Reef fish make their own mosquito net each night
News
Life
History’s biggest lungfish pops up in Nebraska
News
Earth
Magma mixer and odd plumbing made Iceland volcano pop
News
Space
Missing: Milky Way’s smallest black holes
News
Health
The nano-secret of youthful skin
News
Health
Genetically altered mosquitoes thwart dengue spreaders
News
Technology
World’s first ice touchscreen virtually burns
News
Technology
Hi-res camerabot explores great and small
News
Health
Whip-tailed bacteria could ‘tweet’ to nanobots
News
Opinion
Parapsychology: Lessons from the fringe
First proof of precognition? The truth may be even more challenging
Opinion
Why antimatter matters
Opinion
Health
Why ‘health’ is not fit for purpose
Opinion
Award-winning writer reveals humans behind the cells
Opinion
Physics
Nobel winners: Fun with frogs, pencils and Scotch tape
Opinion
Features
Physics
Quantum time travel: Black hole not required
You don't need to set the universe in a spin to see time travel in action 鈥� so what happened when a photon with a quantum gun went back to kill itself?
Features
Life
Culture club: All species welcome
Features
Life
Giant enigma: The fossil log that isn’t
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Google and beyond
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Machines appreciate pictures
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Into the deep web
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: The cyber crystal ball
Features
Technology
Engines of the future: Search-friendly spam
Features
Culture
The idea that could let us see before time
In Once Before Time, Martin Bojowald explains how he developed the idea of loop quantum gravity and how it will soon be put to the test
Culture
Futurology that’s tied to the present
Culture
New media, but what about old standards?
Culture
Automatic translation will kill off shared languages
Culture
Magic and the brain
Culture
Man created God, and saw that it was good
Culture
