Physics
Quantum reality: The many meanings of life
Features
This week's magazine
22 January 2011
Issue 2796
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Southern Sudan’s votes could kill an ancient disease
More is riding on last week's Southern Sudan referendum than peace in the area 鈥� eradication of guinea worm is tantalisingly within reach
News
Earth
The economic jungle: How ecologists could save banking
News
Earth
Chinese megacities foster unlikely green citizens
News
Technology
Cyberwar countermeasures a waste of money, says report
News
Earth
Sterile giant tortoises used as Galapagos lawnmowers
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Would you eat eight fruit and veg a day?
News
Space
Stormy words over NASA’s rocket deadline
News
Health
Faecal transplant eases symptoms of Parkinson’s
News
Earth
Telltale chemistry could betray ET
News
Health
Transsexual differences caught on brain scan
News
Earth
Slime moulds bet the farm on survival
News
Life
Quantum states last longer in birds’ eyes
News
Physics
First silicon entanglement will aid quantum computing
News
Space
Why space taxis might be safer than NASA’s shuttle
News
Earth
Hunt for the molecules that hold ecosystems together
News
Health
Smoking puts DNA at risk in 15 minutes
News
Physics
Car batteries run on relativity
News
Earth
Fall of Roman Empire linked to wild shifts in climate
News
Space
Spinning cosmic dust motes set speed record
News
Life
Wine family tree revealed
News
Explosive death for MRSA
News
Earth
Plagues of lemmings driven by winter breeding
News
Life
The genetic basis of friendship networks
News
Earth
Online games reveal players’ personalities 鈥� to who?
News
Technology
Cooperative cellphone networks could cut energy waste
News
Technology
Sony sues over PS3 encryption hack
News
Health
Virtual blood and smoke give gore to student surgeons
News
Technology
Compact ‘eyeball’ camera stretches to zoom
News
Opinion
Don’t fear the f-word in quantum physics
Let's accept that interpretations of quantum theory are a matter of faith
Opinion
A vote against the guinea worm
Opinion
Why we need to respect bacterial culture
Opinion
Health
Remember the lessons of past clinical trials abuses
Opinion
Space
Internet activist: Why I want to buy a satellite
Opinion
Earth
Amazon activist: I will not give up the fight
Opinion
Features
Physics
Quantum reality: The many meanings of life
Quantum theory is a scientific masterpiece 鈥� but physicists still aren't sure what to make of it. Michael Brooks goes in search of fresh perspectives
Features
Health
The hurt blocker: Scans pin down pain in the brain
Features
Earth
What if the Earth stopped spinning?
Features
Earth
Soft-centred fossils reveal dinosaurs’ true colours
Features
Culture
The challenge of the great cosmic unknowns
In The 4% Universe: Dark matter, dark energy, and the race to discover the rest of reality, Richard Panek explains how we came to know so little
Culture
The gospel of gaming
Culture
ET rocks: Loving the geological alien
Culture
Pulling the plug: living without the internet
Culture
