Health
How to understand the risk of a bacon sandwich giving you bowel cancer
Features
This week's magazine
12 February 2011
Issue 2799
Editor's picks
Life
Evolution’s X factor: Shuffling up new species
Features
Humans
Darwinian dating: Baby, I’m your natural selection
Features
Spin doctors: The truth behind health scare headlines
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Your number’s up
Features
Health
Spin doctors: TV kills
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Size matters
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Die another day
Features
Humans
Mind reading: The science of storytelling
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
US to curb ‘rocket-fuel chemical’ in water
Tougher regulations will hit perchlorate, which is found in drinking water and thought to affect infant development
News
Earth
Egypt and Tunisia: rocked by the global food crisis
News
Space
US military promotes peace in space
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Lettuce is sucking California’s fruit basket dry
News
Health
Shaken baby evidence shaken
News
Health
Temple conflict could spell malarial doom
News
Health
Death rattle of a decapitated brain
News
Health
Spaghetti junction bridges gaps in broken spines
News
Space
Who ate all the planets? Blame the ‘bloatars’
News
Health
Taste bud trickery needed to cut salt intake
News
Physics
Vacuum has friction after all
News
Health
Without language, numbers make no sense
News
Earth
Make or break time for Mali’s fertile wetland
News
Giant archaeological trove found in Google Earth
News
Space
Gushing flood formed giant Martian sinkhole
News
Humans
Sex and aggression are bad bedfellows in the brain
News
Health
A sweet tooth predicts success of alcoholism treatment
News
Physics
Neutron star seen forming exotic new state of matter
News
Humans cheat chimps by knowing the rules
News
Humans
Brain’s ‘constant gardener’ discovered
News
Health
HIV-like infection banished from mice
News
Earth
After the birds vanish, plants are next to go
News
Technology
Augmented nose sniffs out illegal stenches
News
Environment
Clearing up space junk, one piece at a time
News
Life
Watch out, your lover may be cyberstalking you
News
Technology
Army wants rapid-fire rubber bullets for crowd control
News
Opinion
Hope and hype in the world of statistics
More could be done to give the public a realistic picture of research findings
Opinion
A matter of life and brain death
Opinion
Earth
Let’s take better care of our rare earth elements
Opinion
Technology
Supercomputer creator: Our machine can win Jeopardy!
Opinion
Life
Frankenstein syndrome: Why do we fear making humans?
Opinion
Features
Life
Evolution’s X factor: Shuffling up new species
Darwin described the creation of new species as the "mystery of mysteries". Could the solution be found in a single gene, asks Bob Holmes
Features
Humans
Darwinian dating: Baby, I’m your natural selection
Features
Spin doctors: The truth behind health scare headlines
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Your number’s up
Features
Health
How to understand the risk of a bacon sandwich giving you bowel cancer
Features
Health
Spin doctors: TV kills
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Size matters
Features
Health
Spin doctors: Die another day
Features
Humans
Mind reading: The science of storytelling
Features
Culture
Inventing modern science over eggs and bacon
In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder pins the rise of science as we know it on the weekly meetings of four great 19th-century thinkers
Culture
A tour of the multiverses
Culture
The thrill of the alien planet chase
Culture
How going online messes with your head
Culture
Regulars
Environment
Feedback: Quantum shift in woo-woo nonsense
Positive Vibrational Change and Sacred Geometry Infusion, the Journal of Universal Rejection, 70,000 cold years to come, and more
algorithms
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Don’t call me ginger
Last Word
Piles of reason
Last Word
Tyre strategy
Last Word
