Life
Cold-blooded cognition: Tortoises quick on the uptake
Features
This week's magazine
24 December 2011
Issue 2844
Editor's picks
Space
We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space
Features
Technology
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz
Features
Physics
Salad-bar strategy: The battle of the buffet
Features
Humans
Ghouls on film: Paranormal photography goes digital
Features
Earth
Scott, Amundsen… and Nobu Shirase
Features
Physics
Rhyme and reason: The Victorian poet scientists
Features
Physics
Seasonal stalactites: The sharp end of icicle science
Features
Health
Eight lazy ways to lose weight
Features
Environment
Apps for apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas
Features
Physics
The dust library
Features
Health
How crossword puzzles mess with your mind
Features
Health
Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality
Features
Physics
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper
Features
The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves
Features
Table of contents
News
Health
Hijack your own dreams to improve your skills
It's like Inception, in real life: lucid dreams offer people the ability to control their dreams and improve not only skills, but also mental health
News
Physics
How to build a gamma-ray laser with antimatter hybrid
News
Miscarriage of justice points to fingerprint flaws
News
Physics
What Higgs result means for dark matter conspiracy
News
Life
Learn language faster with gestures
News
Physics
Microscopic origami boxes build themselves
News
Space
Kepler telescope detects distant star’s heartbeat
News
Earth
Trees do bear some blame for acid rain
News
Health
Stealth tactics of bacteria revealed
News
Icy ‘hand’ moves boulders on Mars
News
Environment
Why naked mole rats feel no pain from acid
News
Environment
Zoologger: My brain’s so big it spills into my legs
News
Technology
Record-busting motorbike will be jet engine on wheels
News
Space
Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them
News
Technology
Robots to enjoy long walks on the beach
News
Physics
Smart Guide to 2012: Neutrinos may be tachyons
News
Physics
Smart Guide to 2012: Higgs hunt is all about catching Zs
News
Earth
Smart Guide to 2012: The Rio Earth Summit
News
Technology
Smart Guide to 2012: How best to test machine IQ
News
Humans
Smart Guide to 2012: How to win at the Olympics
News
Humans
Smart Guide to 2012: Humans’ chimeric origins
News
Smart Guide to 2012: The US cyber election
News
Technology
Smart Guide to 2012: Billion-dollar price of privacy
News
Health
Smart Guide to 2012: Mapping the human brain
News
Physics
Smart Guide to 2012: The networks that run the world
News
Technology
Review of 2011: The year’s biggest news at a glance
News
Opinion
A blockbuster year run on Hollywood logic
The world doesn't just resemble a blockbuster movie; it's being run like one too
Opinion
Physics
Outsider physicists and the oh-my-god particle
Opinion
Environment
I lived as a turkey for a year
Opinion
Humans
Enter a dolphin’s fluid, hyper-social consciousness
Opinion
Technology
I’m a neo-Luddite and anti-technology
Opinion
Features
Life
Cold-blooded cognition: Tortoises quick on the uptake
Tortoises aren’t noted for their speed but they are surprisingly quick-witted
Features
Space
We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space
Features
Technology
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz
Features
Physics
Salad-bar strategy: The battle of the buffet
Features
Humans
Ghouls on film: Paranormal photography goes digital
Features
Earth
Scott, Amundsen… and Nobu Shirase
Features
Physics
Rhyme and reason: The Victorian poet scientists
Features
Physics
Seasonal stalactites: The sharp end of icicle science
Features
Health
Eight lazy ways to lose weight
Features
Environment
Apps for apes: Orang-utans want iPads for Christmas
Features
Physics
The dust library
Features
Health
How crossword puzzles mess with your mind
Features
Health
Level-up life: how gaming can enhance your reality
Features
Physics
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper
Features
The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves
Features
