Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects
Features
This week's magazine
5 January 2013
Issue 2898
Editor's picks
Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon
Features
Epigenetics: What’s left to find out
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Epigenetics: Discovery
Features
Earth
Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy
Features
Earth
Coffee to go: Is this the end of our favourite drink?
Features
Physics
Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens
Features
Table of contents
News
Earth
The world to burn as much coal as oil by 2017
Capturing the emissions of the most polluting fossil fuel is the only hope of reducing climate change
News
Earth
Golden rice trial caught up in ethical tangle
News
Space
NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon’s orbit
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Physics
LHC to stir up hot particle soup before 2013 shut down
News
Earth
Approval for gene-modified salmon spawns controversy
News
Earth
Strong jet stream super-charged US Christmas storms
News
Earth
Superstorm lessons for adapting to climate change
News
Physics
Humble coin toss thrust to heart of multiverse debate
News
Health
Cadaver stem cells offer new hope of life after death
News
Humans
Take a peek inside the brain’s filing cabinet
News
Life
Earthworms roped into making quantum dots
News
Earth
Ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming fast
News
Space
Astrophile: Black hole exposed as a dwarf in disguise
News
Health
Avian flu virus learns to fly without wings
News
Haloes are real 鈥� what colour is yours?
News
Life
Giant tooth hints at truly monumental dinosaur
News
Life
Van-sized space rock is a cosmic oddball
News
Physics
Victorian counting device gets speedy quantum makeover
News
Technology
Mapping malware’s genome to fight future attacks
News
Earth
Polar tech uncovers how frozen regions are changing
News
Technology
AI ‘lifeguard’ could save young swimmers from drowning
News
Opinion
Earth
The jolt we need to take on climate change
If changing temperatures and rainfall patterns kill off coffee, will that finally spur us into action?
Opinion
Earth
Time to nail the number one problem of green energy
Opinion
Technology
Unmasking the cyber saboteurs, whoever they are
Opinion
Humans
How to reduce the toll from US gun violence
Opinion
Humans
West vs Asia education rankings are misleading
Opinion
Technology
Tony Fadell: From iPhones to sexing up thermostats
Opinion
Health
Physics not biology may be key to beating cancer
Opinion
Features
Epigenetics: Far-reaching effects
Faulty epigenetics may play a part in some congenital disorders and cancers. But it's not clear whether epigenetic susceptibility to disease can be inherited
Features
Epigenetics: A ubiquitous phenomenon
Features
Epigenetics: What’s left to find out
Features
Epigenetics: Discovery
Features
Earth
Into thin air: Storage salvation for green energy
Features
Earth
Coffee to go: Is this the end of our favourite drink?
Features
Physics
Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens
Features
Culture
Humans
The science of Sherlock Holmes
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Space
Your body’s insights into life and cosmos
Culture
Books for 2013 鈥� a bibliophile’s guide
Culture
Two world-shaping visionaries who missed their targets
Culture
