Physics
About time: What is it?
Features
This week's magazine
8 October 2011
Issue 2833
Editor's picks
Physics
About time: Why does time’s arrow fly only one way?
Features
Physics
About time: Countdown to the theory of everything
Features
Life
About time: The body’s metronome
Features
Humans
About time: Does it really fly when you’re having fun?
Features
Physics
About time: Everyday time warps
Features
Life
About time: The tribe without time
Features
Earth
About time: Finding the age of everything
Features
About time: Life on the time-zone borderline
Features
Physics
About time: Is time travel possible?
Features
Physics
About time: The world’s most accurate clock
Features
About time: Will time end?
Features
Table of contents
News
Immunity and dark energy discoveries win Nobels
Cosmologists who studied exploding stars and discoverers of "front-line" defence systems win the physics and medicine prizes
News
Health
World’s first cloned human embryonic stem cells
News
Earth
Pacific islands left thirsty by La Niña
News
Earth
Fukushima’s radioactive sea contamination lingers
News
Knox trial exposes forensic flaws
News
60 Seconds
News
Fewer big asteroids stalk Earth than we thought
News
Earth
Political backlash to geoengineering begins
News
Health
Rules of death: When the end is not what it seems
News
Earth
Arctic ozone hole breaks all records
News
Health
New twist in the tale of Tutankhamun’s club foot
News
Physics
Faster-than-light neutrinos? New answers flood in
News
Physics
Cops on the trail of crimes that haven’t happened
News
Health
Bumpy nipple smells guide babies to milk
News
Monkeys ‘feel’ texture of virtual objects
News
Humans
Zoned-out rats may give clue to consciousness
News
Terminal buzz gives bats their hunting edge
News
Brain tweak turns wimpy mice into dominant leaders
News
Earth
Corals might learn to adapt to warmer seas
News
Environment
Sexually harassed female guppies bait their friends
News
Physics
Cool light to bring quantum magic into the real world
News
Bright ‘hollows’ on Mercury are unique in solar system
News
Health
A little excess weight affects IVF success
News
Health
Too much booze blunts your immune system
News
Technology
Phone tech transforms African business and healthcare
News
Technology
Paper patterns and smartphones foil forgers
News
Technology
Pay as you go solar power makes energy cheaper
News
Physics
Nanotubes help cloak objects in a mirage
News
Opinion
About time: A most familiar mystery
The quest to understand time could do more than just unite the past, present and future
Opinion
Earth
Geology will survive creationist undermining
Opinion
Environment
Anthropologist: I slept up a tree to understand chimps
Opinion
Humans
Evolutionary guru: Don’t believe everything you think
Opinion
Aperture
Features
Physics
About time: What is it?
Is time a river, a block, or a figment of our imagination? The essential nature of time remains the universe's greatest mystery
Features
Physics
About time: Why does time’s arrow fly only one way?
Features
Physics
About time: Countdown to the theory of everything
Features
Life
About time: The body’s metronome
Features
Humans
About time: Does it really fly when you’re having fun?
Features
Physics
About time: Everyday time warps
Features
Life
About time: The tribe without time
Features
Earth
About time: Finding the age of everything
Features
About time: Life on the time-zone borderline
Features
Physics
About time: Is time travel possible?
Features
Physics
About time: The world’s most accurate clock
Features
About time: Will time end?
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Ig Nobel prize awards 2011
The Ig Nobels honoured real research on contagious yawning in tortoises, the nature of procrastination and the mathematical risks of prophecies of doom
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Chest in time
Last Word
Modern remains
Last Word
Whistle-stop
Last Word
In a blue mood
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