Humans
A brief history of the brain
Features
This week's magazine
24 September 2011
Issue 2831
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Astronomers break ranks over space telescope costs
Fears grow as cost overruns for the James Webb Space Telescope threaten to devour money allocated to other planetary science and solar physics projects
News
US environment regulations swamped by tide of failures
News
Space
Hardy 6-tonne satellite falls to Earth
News
Earth
Times Atlas grossly exaggerates Greenland ice loss
News
Apps in development promise to ‘hack autism’
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
New doubts about ‘poster child’ of exoplanets
News
Life
Google Earth reveals Nazca-like structures in Arabia
News
Space
Will the universe end in a big snap?
News
Health
First anti-wrinkle pill shows signs of success
News
Earth
Whales make new friends as warmer seas drive migration
News
Life
Brainy molluscs evolved nervous systems four times
News
Health
Five easy mutations to make bird flu a lethal pandemic
News
Earth
Groundwater greed driving sea level rises
News
Health
Resurrected ancient protein is a potent antibiotic
News
Humans
Habits form when brainwaves slow down
News
Health
Gene associated with cancer might be beneficial
News
Health
Colon identified as a seat of immune cell learning
News
Health
Light pulses keep heart cells beating
News
Environment
Advanced birds lived alongside ‘hairy’ dinosaurs
News
Humans
Brain needs serotonin to restrain aggression
News
Technology
Electron tennis plays well for quantum computing
News
Health
Surgeons make cancer cells fluoresce for removal
News
Space
Astrophile: The most surreal sunset in the universe
News
Technology
Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum
News
Technology
Dawn of motorsport’s electric dream
News
Technology
Electronic elections: One app, one vote
News
Technology
Why you are identifiable after just a few steps
News
Opinion
Health
The risk of an influenza pandemic is fact, not fiction
In the light of recent findings, now is not the time to be complacent
Opinion
Gene foods: A wrinkle in food and drug regulation
Opinion
Earth
Don’t blame Italian seismologists for quake deaths
Opinion
Health
Obesity expert: Sugar is toxic and should be regulated
Opinion
Life
Good leaders don’t have to be bad people
Opinion
Features
Humans
A brief history of the brain
91av tracks the evolution of our brain from its origin in ancient seas to its dramatic expansion in one ape – and asks why it is now shrinking
Features
Physics
Electron cinema: the fastest story ever told
Features
Space
Light of life: The hunt for another Earth
Features
Life
Metamorphosis: Evolution’s freak factory
Features
Culture
An insider’s guide to modern particle physics
In Knocking on Heaven's Door, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall gives a candid account of cutting-edge efforts to understand the universe
Culture
The visit that changed history
Culture
Why put your personal info online?
Culture
Sculpting with fish skins
Culture
Tracking online fraud across the globe
Culture
