Life
Living dinosaurs: Why did modern birds survive?
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This week's magazine
11 December 2010
Issue 2790
Editor's picks
Life
Living dinosaurs: When did modern birds evolve?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: How did feathers and flight evolve?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: Was archaeopteryx really a bird?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: Are we sure birds are dinos?
Features
Earth
Light diet: Animals that eat sunshine
Features
Living dinosaurs: How birds took over the world
Features
Earth
Foreign aid on trial
Features
Physics
Wonder walls: Taking home decor to another dimension
Features
Table of contents
News
Health
E-cigarettes are poorly labelled and under-regulated
Leaky cartridges and inconsistent labelling: just two reasons for tighter controls on electronic cigarettes
News
Earth
Ecologists desert Canc煤n’s sinking ship
News
Physics
Mathematical immortality? Name that theorem
News
Health
Surrogate mothers need better protection
News
US public asked to play judge and jury for science funding
News
Secret US space plane lands itself
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
The poison eaters: alternative life forms
News
Physics
Quantum links let computers understand language
News
Physics
‘Lightfoil’ soars on a stream of photons
News
Health
To erase a bad memory, first become a child
News
Earth
Fungus out! The frog resistance is here
News
Health
Human brain stem cells grown in rats
News
Life
Scorpions glow in the dark to detect moonlight
News
Health
Had flu? The next pandemic could hit you harder
News
Space
Quartet of giant planets puzzles astronomers
News
Life
Implanted foreign object? Pee it out
News
Space
Cosmic ‘enlightenment’ dawned slowly
News
Life
Skin was the first organ to evolve
News
Health
Stem cells in TB protection racket
News
Humans
Bigger brains tricked by optical illusion
News
Earth
Salty solar plant stores sun’s heat
News
Technology
Wireless at the speed of plasma
News
Technology
Info pirates seek an alternative internet
News
Technology
Infrared add-on could let standard cameras see cancer
News
Technology
Magnetic nano-hedgehogs produce ‘lab-on-a-track’
News
Opinion
Curb your enthusiasm for aliens, NASA
The latest revelations about "alien life" suggest the agency should focus more astrobiology and less on publicity
Opinion
Troops need to remember
Opinion
WikiLeaks raises temperature in Canc煤n
Opinion
Time to democratise science
Opinion
Earth
Calestous Juma: Why I’m optimistic about Africa
Opinion
Health
Getting wise to the real power of placebos
Opinion
Features
Earth
Light diet: Animals that eat sunshine
From sea slugs to salamanders, many animals can naturally tap into solar power 鈥� and we're learning how to make more
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: Are we sure birds are dinos?
Features
Living dinosaurs: How birds took over the world
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: Was archaeopteryx really a bird?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: How did feathers and flight evolve?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: Why did modern birds survive?
Features
Life
Living dinosaurs: When did modern birds evolve?
Features
Earth
Foreign aid on trial
Features
Physics
Wonder walls: Taking home decor to another dimension
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: British Airways’s retro resurrection
Recursive banking, telecoms gobbledegook, probiotic toilet cleaner, slippery thrones, gravity needs space, and more
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