Physics
Harnessing the quantum power of empty space
Features
This week's magazine
18 February 2012
Issue 2852
Editor's picks
Health
The mystery of the missing brain cells
Features
Tech before its time: Right track, but no iPod
Features
Tech before its time: Xerox’s shooting Star computer
Features
Tech before its time: Friends before Facebook
Features
Tech before its time: The missing hyperlink
Features
Tech before its time: Florida’s 1980s web
Features
Tech before its time: Apple’s 1992 iPad
Features
Earth
Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma
Features
Table of contents
News
Keep dead people’s hearts beating for organ donation
The British Medical Association has suggested some solutions to the UK's shortage of organ donors
News
Health
Latest US drug shortage hits children with leukaemia
News
Earth
US to resume building nuclear plants
News
Physics
Web freedoms fuel ‘academic spring’ journal protest
News
60 Seconds
News
Life
NASA scales back hunt for life on Mars
News
Physics
LHC boosts energy to snag Higgs – and superpartners
News
Earth
Earth Summit is doomed to fail, say leading ecologists
News
Russian hot springs point to rocky origins for life
News
Physics
Sterile neutrinos leave ghostly fingerprints on cosmos
News
Humans
Why we have moral rules but don’t follow them
News
Health
Prune bad brain wiring with magnetic pulses
News
Health
Quantum dots control brain cells for the first time
News
Health
Prions point to a new style of evolution
News
Life
Snakes use sponge action to drink
News
Physics
How fresco-wrecking salty towers build themselves
News
Health
Linking genes, cerebellums and schizophrenia
News
Health
Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice
News
Earth
Hurricanes deliver fatal blows to wind turbines
News
Physics
Bionic butterfly wings are ultimate heat sensors
News
Health
Ancient Chinese medicine could fight ageing
News
Life
Zoologger: Don’t bite – how the zebra got its stripes
News
Technology
Stock trading ‘fractures’ may warn of next crash
News
Technology
‘Sprinting’ chips could push phones to the speed limit
News
Technology
Islands on land could make towns tsunami-proof
News
Technology
Paper robots could have a strong, gentle touch
News
Technology
Dealing with death in a digital world
News
Opinion
Technology
Social media’s moment will pass – but when?
The history of technology suggests that pioneers can easily find themselves without an audience. Facebook has got its timing right – so far
Opinion
If morality is broken, we can fix it
Opinion
Life
Dingoes in the dock
Opinion
Research priorities must serve all the world’s people
Opinion
Health
Broccoli and other wonder drugs of antiquity
Opinion
Features
Physics
Harnessing the quantum power of empty space
The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use vacuum energy to move objects and make stuff – but can something really come from nothing?
Features
Health
The mystery of the missing brain cells
Features
Tech before its time: Right track, but no iPod
Features
Tech before its time: Xerox’s shooting Star computer
Features
Tech before its time: Friends before Facebook
Features
Tech before its time: The missing hyperlink
Features
Tech before its time: Florida’s 1980s web
Features
Tech before its time: Apple’s 1992 iPad
Features
Earth
Mystery booms: The source of a worldwide sonic enigma
Features
