Health
Salt: Killer or scapegoat?
Features
This week's magazine
3 December 2011
Issue 2841
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
New Zealand’s invasive ants mysteriously vanish
The Argentine ant invaded New Zealand 20 years ago – but is now disappearing without any human intervention
News
Space
NASA confiscates web-auctioned rocket engine
News
Health
Promising HIV-gel trial halted in Africa
News
Health
Polio near-eradicated in India – Pakistan struggling
News
Earth
US plans its first megadam in 40 years
News
Health
Forget antibiotics, try nanoparticles instead
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Dark matter particles may be heavyweights after all
News
Earth
Warmer world is the challenge of a generation
News
Earth
Earth in balmy 2080
News
Muscle-based gene therapy beats HIV
News
Health
Airbursts trigger dust avalanches on Mars
News
Tilt your head to improve brain signals
News
Life
Ravens use gestures to grab each other’s attention
News
Environment
Deep sea fishing for tuna began 42,000 years ago
News
Pigeons are more living helicopters than flying rats
News
Health
‘Lethal’ radiation doses can be treated with drugs
News
Life
Turtle eggs communicate to hatch together
News
Health
Neuron transplant in damaged brain fixes obesity
News
Health
Cancer cells poisoned with sugar
News
Life
Da Vinci code for trees provides wind protection
News
Earth
CO2 may not warm the planet as much as thought
News
Space
Cosmic ray factory observed in stellar superbubble
News
Technology
Vital utilities vulnerable to hacking
News
Physics
Inside the race to crack the world’s hardest puzzle
News
Technology
Digital mutiny sinks piracy bill
News
Technology
Glasses emit personal sound and smell
News
Opinion
Health
We can win the AIDS war with drugs and vaccines
If we can bail out the banks, surely we can keep up the pressure on HIV
Opinion
Earth
Durban summit must accept degrees of responsibility
Opinion
Technology
Seek ’em here, seek ’em there: Anonymous is everywhere
Opinion
Science leads the fight for free speech
Opinion
The world’s deepest man
Opinion
Humans
Do thoughts have a language of their own?
Opinion
Features
Mind
Memory: From sense to storage
Plato thought memory was like a wax writing tablet – a hundred years of research have shown us a much more complex picture
Features
Mind
Memory: How memories are made
Features
Mind
Memory: Forgetting and loss
Features
Mind
Memory: How to hold on to it
Features
Space
Earth’s wild ride: Our voyage through the Milky Way
Features
Health
Salt: Killer or scapegoat?
Features
Life
Killer fungi made us hot-blooded
Features
Culture
More
Regulars
Feedback: A catalogue of dodgy ads
Spray on hormones to help you lose weight, improve your memory with earlobe exercise, Brian Cox teaches astrology, and more
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Brrrrrrrrrrrr!
Last Word
Up with the lark
Last Word
Lines on the sky
Last Word
Web search
Last Word
Smoke without fire
Last Word
Mole hunt
Last Word
