Physics
Seven equations that rule your world
Features
This week's magazine
11 February 2012
Issue 2851
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Forensic failure: Survey results
A selection of the responses from the forensic scientists who took our survey
News
Earth
We have breached Lake Vostok, confirms Russian team
News
Space
Astronaut dream lives on despite cash woes and crashes
News
Humans
Mind control could be future of warfare
News
Space
Private spacecraft move forward as Soyuz struggles
News
3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
First evidence that shipping noise stresses whales
News
Humans
Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed
News
Health
New surgery heals nerve damage in weeks
News
Environment
Most fish in the sea evolved on land
News
Humans
Forensic failure: ‘Miscarriages of justice will occur’
News
Physics
Molecules from scratch without the fiendish physics
News
Earth
Ocean current slowdown made Earth spin faster
News
Environment
The only primate to communicate in pure ultrasound
News
Life
Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years
News
Earth
Patch of seagrass is world’s oldest living organism
News
Environment
Zoologger: The only males with more brain than females
News
Falling in love makes you broody
News
Health
Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution
News
Space
Tiny volcanic moon controls Jupiter’s auroras
News
Physics
Slow graphene down, speed computers up
News
Earth
Charging up an all-electric 320 km/h racing car
News
Technology
App’s glowing arrows guide you around a new building
News
Technology
Should police and coastguards use laser dazzlers?
News
Technology
Your heartbeat could keep your data safe
News
Earth
I think we should let elephants loose in Australia
News
Opinion
Water maps keep the peace
To prevent water wars we need to where the world's water is and where it goes
Opinion
Why it’s worth collecting fish
Opinion
The case for revamping forensic science remains unproven
Opinion
Health
Why full disclosure is healthy
Opinion
Life
Time to give SETI a chance
Opinion
Technology
The internet shows the messy truth about knowledge
Opinion
Aperture
Features
Physics
Seven equations that rule your world
A truly revolutionary equation can change human existence more than all the great leaders of history. Meet the mathematical masters of the universe
Features
Health
Dark side of the love hormone
Features
Earth
Uncharted waters: Probing aquifers to head off war
Features
Technology
Power plants: Grow your own electricity
Features
Culture
Splash dance: Water crisis choreography
The Elixir project combines dance, sculpture and song to explore our relationship with water
Culture
The insect survival guide
Culture
Searching the souls of dissidents
Culture
The dark side to personalised internet
Culture
A little bit of sin does you good
Culture
