Life
Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward
Features
This week's magazine
25 June 2011
Issue 2818
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Earth’s oceans on course for mass extinction
It is all thanks to a deadly combination of climate change, overexploitation, pollution and habitat loss
News
Earth
Agency report praises Fukushima staff, slams TEPCO
News
Health
Childhood autism spikes in geek heartlands
News
Earth
Planting forests won’t stop global warming
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
DARPA seeks business model for interstellar travel
News
Health
Rabies may not be the invincible killer we thought
News
Space
Iran satellite is step towards human space flight
News
Health
Building a human on a chip, organ by organ
News
Physics
Largest cosmic structures ‘too big’ for theories
News
Physics
Neutrinos caught ‘shape shifting’ in new way
News
Life
Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity
News
Earth
Dozens of countries queue up to go nuclear
News
Physics
Quantum magic trick shows reality is what you make it
News
Earth
We have the right stuff to sense magnetic fields
News
Health
Rat memory restored by installing replay electronics
News
Health
Chinese medicine offers new Parkinson’s treatments
News
Motion capture for molecules could make 3D DNA film
News
Early humans’ alibi for end of Australian big beasts
News
Mercury was probably pummelled in its youth
News
Environment
Parrots join apes and Aristotle in the club of reason
News
Health
Red wine’s heart health chemical unlocked at last
News
Cancer’s hidden fractals could improve diagnosis
News
Health
Boil water in nanotubes to pop open drug containers
News
Health
Rock yourself to sleep for a better nap
News
Technology
Autopiloted glider knows where to fly for a free ride
News
Technology
Haptic soldiers guided by buzzing belt
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Gender-spotting tool could have rumbled fake blogger
News
Life
Hand-hacking lets you pluck strings like a musical pro
News
Opinion
The truth about lie detection
Why waste money on technology when humans can still do better?
Opinion
The rise of the reverse cyborg
Opinion
The personalised medicine revolution
Opinion
Health
Irradiating organic food would save lives
Opinion
Physics
Alex Bellos: Tell me all about your favourite number
Opinion
Life
To understand risk, use your imagination
Opinion
Features
Life
Evolution machine: Genetic engineering on fast forward
Automated genetic tinkering is just the start 鈥� this machine could be used to rewrite the language of life and create new species of humans
Features
Life
Speedy genes: Making horses for courses
Features
Life
The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind
Features
Life
Truth or dare: How to spot a liar
Features
Culture
The latest chapter in the story of our ancestors
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer combines anecdote and speculation with crisp explanation of the latest science in the study of the first humans
Culture
A strange and wonderful ancient compendium of animals
Culture
Why we always look on the bright side
Culture
When flower power met quantum theory
Culture
Regulars
Environment
Feedback: Chimp brokers outperform professionals
How to invest like a chimp, obsolete clocks and cloaks, and technology down on the farm
Monkeys and apes
This Week鈥檚 Letters
Letters
Tiger, tiger
Last Word
No one can hear you sniff
Last Word
Hands, knees, and鈥�
Last Word
Smelly lucre
Last Word
Cone concerns
Last Word
