Health
Infectious moods: A depressing side effect
Features
This week's magazine
15 January 2011
Issue 2795
Editor's picks
Health
Infectious moods: T-cell recall
Features
Health
Infectious moods: The happiness injection
Features
Health
Infectious moods: Bugs that cause bizarre behaviour
Features
Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind
Features
Earth
Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth
Features
Earth
Casting a critical eye on climate models
Features
Health
Pharaonic forensics: What killed Tutankhamun?
Features
Table of contents
News
Tevatron collider to shut down this year
Budget constraints mean the US particle smasher will not get a life extension to try to beat the Large Hadron Collider to the discovery of the Higgs boson
News
Earth
Can DNA reveal invasive aliens?
News
Earth
We can feed 9 billion people in 2050
News
Earth
Housing 9 billion won’t take techno-magic
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Antipsychotic drug prescriptions triple in the US
News
Health
Did corruption raise Haiti’s death toll?
News
Space
Fledgling space firm will use old Soviet gear
News
Life
Scorn over claim of teleported DNA
News
Life
Elevate yourself to become more virtuous
News
Life
Foxes zero in on prey via Earth’s magnetic field
News
MMR scandal: Wakefield accused of ‘deliberate fraud’
News
Physics
Ethereal quantum state stored in solid crystal
News
Earth
Vacuum of space no match for the mighty radish
News
Health
Sex and space travel don’t mix
News
The scent of a woman’s tears wards off men
News
Life
Is first life-friendly exoplanet an ‘eyeball’?
News
Health
Humpty Dumpty chromosomes fast-track cancer
News
Health
Would a placebo work for you?
News
Health
Brain training for tinnitus reverses ringing in ears
News
Physics
Mystery flares betray hidden force within Crab nebula
News
Earth
Ammonites’ strict diet doomed them to extinction
News
Life
Zoologger: How to get elected in a termite democracy
News
Neanderthals’ ugly faces weren’t adaptations to cold
News
Health
Is coffee the real cure for a hangover?
News
Health
Chess grandmasters use twice the brain
News
Physics
Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made
News
Technology
Chameleon tanks blend into background
News
Space
Rise of the robot astronomers
News
Health
Video games may not boost teenage obesity after all
News
Technology
Metamorphosis key to creating stable walking robots
News
Opinion
Why we have to teleport disbelief
Whether it's mad or miraculous, the only way to find out if a mysterious quantum effect is at work in biology is to try to replicate it
Opinion
How to engineer a better future
Opinion
Winning over the Republicans
Opinion
Health
The medicine maker: I never thought my work could harm
Opinion
Life
Beware the seductions of sociable machines
Opinion
Features
Infectious moods: How bugs control your mind
The brain is supposed to be isolated from the immune system 鈥� but now it seems that happiness, depression and even mental illness really can be catching
Features
Health
Infectious moods: Bugs that cause bizarre behaviour
Features
Health
Infectious moods: T-cell recall
Features
Health
Infectious moods: The happiness injection
Features
Health
Infectious moods: A depressing side effect
Features
Earth
Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth
Features
Earth
Casting a critical eye on climate models
Features
Health
Pharaonic forensics: What killed Tutankhamun?
Features
Culture
Irrationality vs vaccines: Fighting for reality
Three books investigate how so many people have become so dangerously irrational about vaccines 鈥� part of a general confusion between fact and belief
Culture
The internet’s dark heart
Culture
Evolution as seen by an alien
Culture
How we found the age of everything
Culture
