Physics
Reality check: Closing the quantum loopholes
Features
This week's magazine
26 February 2011
Issue 2801
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
The unknown fault that caught out Christchurch
Seismologists didn't realise that largest city in New Zealand's South Island lies directly over a major fault 鈥� until it caused this week's earthquake
News
Earth
Germany’s coal own goal over carbon permits
News
Health
Is lack of sleep and water giving ecstasy a bad name?
News
Health
Raise alcohol prices to save British livers
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Uncertain future for east coast koalas
News
Earth
Mobile phones boost brain activity
News
Physics
Nuclear agency plans for futuristic waste option
News
Space
What’s an alien solar system like?
News
Space
Two planets found sharing one orbit
News
Earth
Coral ‘whisperers’ diagnose reef pollution woes
News
Life
First animal to wear exoskeleton armour
News
Health
Diabetics: is it time to bin the insulin?
News
Earth
Memory fails time-travelling chimps
News
Humans
Does the comfort of conformity ease thoughts of death?
News
Health
Shaped pulses make opaque film see-through
News
Life
Gene behind seed germination found
News
Physics
Carbon buckyballs can turn to jelly
News
Earth
Foreshocks may warn that a big quake is coming
News
Health
Low sperm count? Your bones might be to blame
News
Life
Bitter tastes make you more judgemental
News
Humans
Did Neanderthals use feathers for fashion?
News
Physics
Molecules seen rebounding before they hit a surface
News
Physics
‘Anti-laser’ built for first time
News
Earth
Power of cool: Liquid air to store clean energy
News
Environment
Robot subs seek a downed plane’s secrets
News
Technology
Sticky feet send insect-bot climbing up the walls
News
Technology
Magnetic ‘battery’ to report on century-old nuke waste
News
Opinion
Kepler shows us a galaxy fit for life
We've taken the first big step on the quest to find alien beings
Opinion
Environment
Courts may offer coral relief
Opinion
A tankful of sun is what the renewables mix needs
Opinion
Physics
Tevatron closure: There’s life in the old dog yet
Opinion
Earth
A country with no time for climate change scepticism
Opinion
Earth
Biology Nobelist: Natural selection will destroy us
Opinion
Physics
Theoretical physics and the art of the abstract
Opinion
Features
Physics
Reality check: Closing the quantum loopholes
Can the universe really be as weird as quantum theory suggests? Ingenious experiments are coming close to settling the issue, says Anil Ananthaswamy
Features
Technology
Sonic doom: Making a sound barrier
Features
Humans
Finely tuned minds: The secret of perfect pitch
Features
