Space
Blue lions: The search for rogue planets
Features
This week's magazine
18 December 2010
Issue 2791
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Change brain-death diagnosis to save organs
One clinical examination is enough to establish whether someone is brain dead and make more donated organs available, a study suggests
News
Technology
Money-spinning technologies lie stagnant in Africa
News
Earth
No tipping point for polar bears’ Arctic ice
News
Earth
Lice found not guilty of salmon decline
News
Health
World’s first animal-to-human transplant approved
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Higgs hunt may delay LHC’s planned shutdown
News
Physics
Cryptographers chosen to duke it out in final fight
News
Technology
WikiLeaks wars: Digital conflict spills into real life
News
Earth
Canc煤n analysis: Dawn breaks on low-carbon world
News
Life
Creativity vies with language in brain
News
Health
Cancer cells dupe the body’s immune system
News
Life
Bereaved animals grieve 鈥� if their lifestyle allows it
News
Space
Commercial capsule succeeds where NASA failed
News
Physics
Less is more when measuring fragile atomic bonds
News
Humans
Liar, liar! Brain circuit predicts others’ honesty
News
Health
Leukaemia’s weak spot targeted and destroyed
News
Could we detect trees on other planets?
News
Health
Stuffing yourself in imagination curbs stomach pangs
News
Environment
Zoologger: Weaponised eggs turn predators’ stomachs
News
Health
Intestine grown from stem cells for the first time
News
Life
Sleepy bees slur their waggle dance moves
News
Earth
Lucky strike gave Earth its gold
News
Environment
Blue whale feeding methods are ultra-efficient
News
Earth
Is night falling on classic solar panels?
News
Technology
Are states unleashing the dogs of cyber war?
News
Technology
Virtual lunar robot proves pogoing beats moonwalking
News
Technology
Banknotes go electric to outwit counterfeiters
News
Opinion
The legacy of Canc煤n
Progress is still being made, despite the shortcomings of the United Nations climate talks
Opinion
Democracy 2.0: The world after WikiLeaks
Opinion
Physics
Let’s build Babbage’s ultimate mechanical computer
Opinion
Earth
We need an energy sixth sense to fight global warming
Opinion
Physics
George Soros: Economics needs fixing
Opinion
Life
Psi investigator: On magic and being a maverick
Opinion
Features
Space
Blue lions: The search for rogue planets
Alien worlds keep turning up that break the rules we've learned from our own solar system. Are we the real renegades?
Features
Health
Taboo transplant: How new poo defeats superbugs
Features
Life
Live wires: The electric superorganism under your feet
Features
Health
3D TV: Beware the barfogenic zone
Features
Culture
An advertisement for mad-dog brain modularity
Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite by Robert Kurtzban is a manifesto for a good idea in neuropsychology taken to an absurd extreme, says Owen Flanagan
Culture
Musical inventor: The robotic set of my opera emotes
Culture
What is it like to be Oliver Sacks?
Culture
Cuba’s socialist go-it-alone medicine
Culture
How Pluto lost its planethood
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: But is it worth its salt?
Why you must set the bio-photons free, a weird new invention called fire, dehydrated water, a town whose population was one-third, and more
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