How language evolved: Putting it to the test
Features
This week's magazine
4 December 2010
Issue 2789
Editor's picks
How language evolved: Laying the foundations
Features
How language evolved: Our speaking machine
Features
How language evolved: Hearing lost words
Features
Life
Are you really smarter than a Neanderthal?
Features
Earth
Climate shock: One heatwave from oblivion
Features
Space
Saturn’s strange propellers show how planets are born
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
Losing species makes ecosystems sick
Biodiversity worldwide is falling and this loss of genetic wealth could cause disease
News
Earth
Climate talks prepare to nibble at world-saving plans
News
Health
North Americans needn’t worry about vitamin D
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Space debris may cause mysterious ball lightning
News
Earth
Haiti’s cholera outbreak will go from bad to worse
News
Space
Politics should not dictate design of NASA rockets
News
Health
The danger of unreliable paternity tests
News
Health
Beak-nosed mice a clue to human cleft palate
News
Earth
Goodbye grey skies, hello extra warming
News
Physics
How to create temperatures below absolute zero
News
Earth
Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops
News
Health
Taking the lottery out of gene therapy
News
Earth
Why incest among animals cuts male sexual aggression
News
Life
How the giant panda lost its taste for flesh
News
Health
Untreated diabetes reduces vital brain cholesterol
News
Health
How cannabis dampens the immune system
News
Health
DNA trick throws ageing into reverse
News
Physics
Early universe recreated in LHC was superhot liquid
News
Space
Experiment casts doubt on origins of lunar water
News
Technology
Criminals find the key to car immobilisers
News
Technology
Inside the race to hack the Kinect
News
Technology
The phoney chips that could cripple military tech
News
Technology
Tongue clicks to control wheelchairs
News
Opinion
The pope’s genetically modified crop dilemma
Could it be that the Vatican is about to enter the age of enlightenment?
Opinion
No room for genetic errors
Opinion
The Kinect revolution
Opinion
Health
Haiti: Epidemics of denial must end
Opinion
Earth
Hedge-fund philanthropist: Physics can save the planet
Opinion
Health
Genome pioneer: Make your genes public
Opinion
Features
How language evolved: Putting it to the test
We may never be able to write a Neanderthal dictionary, but in the coming decades we should able to test ideas about the evolution of language
Features
How language evolved: Laying the foundations
Features
How language evolved: Our speaking machine
Features
How language evolved: Hearing lost words
Features
Life
Are you really smarter than a Neanderthal?
Features
Earth
Climate shock: One heatwave from oblivion
Features
Space
Saturn’s strange propellers show how planets are born
Features
Culture
Physics
How an architect took music back to mathematical roots
A Los Angeles exhibition shows how Iannis Xenakis used everything from geometry to set theory in his modernist buildings and music
Culture
Digital poets and programs free verse from the page
Culture
Hard lessons of the Gulf oil spill
Culture
Epic fail: No winners in climate change game
Culture
The fossil our ancient ancestors loved
Culture
