Your kitchen sink, and 16 other wonders of the cosmos
Features
This week's magazine
19 February 2011
Issue 2800
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Health
Human DNA contaminates a fifth of sequenced genomes
Almost one-fifth of bacteria, plant and animal genomes sequenced in the lab carry chunks of human DNA, probably because of poor lab practices
News
Earth
Migrant beetles to eat into New Zealand dung mountain
News
President and House clash over science spending
News
Earth
Cull of Yellowstone buffalo gets go-ahead
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Return of the king butterfly
News
Physics
X-rays show why van Gogh’s yellows have darkened
News
Health
Incriminating booze tests face fresh scrutiny
News
Technology
Better than human? What’s next for Jeopardy! computer
News
Life
Fly sniffs molecule’s quantum vibrations
News
Health
Short Andeans have a big cancer-fighting secret
News
Health
Why women get anxious at that ‘time of the month’
News
Earth
Satellites could keep an eye out for floods
News
Physics
Atoms ripple in the periodic table of shapes
News
Environment
Urge to migrate found in bird genes
News
Health
Protein dose reverses learning problems in Down’s mice
News
Humans
Predictive texting alters our perception of numbers
News
Bee sensor picks up good vibrations
News
Environment
Do snails dream of slime-covered sheep?
News
Health
A minor cut could trigger a tumour
News
Environment
Subliminal spiders help people overcome phobia
News
Life
Starless planets may be habitable after all
News
Physics
Black holes put new spin on light
News
Physics
Light through a blocked hole? Plasmonics is the answer
News
Technology
Sensational festival music, from your cellphone
News
Technology
Robot-only internet to help machines share secrets
News
Technology
Robot-only internet to help machines share secrets
News
Technology
4G network ‘will create GPS dead zones across the US’
News
Technology
Illusion ‘cloak’ makes you see what’s not there
News
Technology
Augmented reality iPhone helps police track suspects
News
Opinion
Time for a new food revolution
It's essential to get started on ambitious technological fixes, such as upgrading the photosynthetic machinery in plants
Opinion
Life
Looking for life on Mars? Try the salty bits
Opinion
Earth
Lily Cole: People and elephants can live in harmony
Opinion
Health
The man who gets into the minds of psychopaths
Opinion
Features
Your kitchen sink, and 16 other wonders of the cosmos
Follow Roger Highfield as he time-travels, wages biological warfare and finds the secret of galaxy clusters in his soup 鈥� all in a typical Monday
Features
Earth
A blue-green revolution: Upgrading photosynthesis
Features
Life
Keeping up e-ppearances: How to bury your digital dirt
Features
Culture
Telempathy: A future of socially networked neurons
World Wide Mind鈥� by Michael Chorost argues that we will soon be able to wire our brains directly to one another. But would you want to?
Culture
The analogue artist who saw the past in the present
Culture
How medicine was brought to the masses
Culture
A comic-book guide to genomics
Culture
