Humans
Human nature: Being playful
Features
This week's magazine
21 April 2012
Issue 2861
Editor's picks
Humans
Human nature: Being scientific
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being legislative
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being clandestine
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being epicurean
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being gossipy
Features
Technology
Network your stuff: Amateurs inventing a new internet
Features
Space
Earth’s secret mini moons could reveal the history of the solar system
Features
Poor little rich minds: The price of wealth
Features
Table of contents
News
US to export gas as glut slashes prices
Now that fracking has left the US with a surplus of natural gas, producers will sell it abroad for the first time
News
Earth
In tornado season, words save lives
News
Death penalty deterrent studies are flawed
News
Texas passes controversial stem cell regulations
News
NASA turns to the public for ideas about Mars mission
News
60 Seconds
News
US board calls for biosecurity censorship rules
News
Earth
Crucial environment satellite falls silent
News
Mind
Make your own drugs with a 3D printer
News
Life
First glimpse at the viral birth of DNA
News
Element factory tests properties of ephemeral atoms
News
Health
‘Cocktail party effect’ identified in the brain
News
Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ
News
Earth
Ocean’s toxic alkalisation spurred animal evolution
News
Health
Hand paralysis reversed in monkeys
News
Life
Dino-bird had oldest known case of osteoarthritis
News
Blood test could diagnose teen depression
News
Baboons and 4-letter words point to origins of reading
News
Physics
Sound waves help quantum computers scale up
News
Health
Drug-free therapy makes addicts ‘forget’ addiction
News
Physics
Controversial quantum computer beats factoring record
News
Technology
Wearable muscle suit makes heavy lifting a cinch
News
Earth
Real-time GPS sensor could give earlier quake warning
News
Technology
AI graders get top marks for scoring essay questions
News
Technology
New hacktivist sect emerges from Anonymous
News
Technology
Invent a balloon shape, print it, then just blow
News
Environment
Mini labs reveal sea life’s secrets
News
Environment
Undersea network opens up the ocean to all
News
Environment
Solar-powered yacht conquers the globe
News
Environment
Touchy-feely robot takes on the darkness
News
Environment
Seawater battery sparks sub dreams
News
Opinion
Rich suffer as well as the poor in unequal society
Large wealth gaps create greater social ills, which have a negative effect on the people at the top as well as the bottom
Opinion
Chemical 3D printing takes apps beyond the digital
Opinion
Earth
The Arab Spring puts a strain on Jordan’s ecology
Opinion
Matchmaking scientists with adventurers
Opinion
E. O. Wilson: from altruism to a new Enlightenment
Opinion
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being playful
All mammals play - but no other species pursues such a wide variety of entertainment or spends so much time enjoying themselves
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being scientific
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being legislative
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being clandestine
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being epicurean
Features
Humans
Human nature: Being gossipy
Features
Technology
Network your stuff: Amateurs inventing a new internet
Features
Space
Earth’s secret mini moons could reveal the history of the solar system
Features
Poor little rich minds: The price of wealth
Features
Culture
Luminous life on show
A new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York celebrates luminescent wildlife – and may introduce the first known biofluorescent eel
Culture
Missions to Mars: The story so far
Culture
Celebrating the new unconscious
Culture
Cartoon rebuttals of conspiracy theories
Culture
How to win a Nobel for someone else’s work
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Do hairpieces reduce vitamin D?
Why comb-overs could damage your health, how many 5-minute walks would cross the English Channel, hydrogen-rich water, and more
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Straight and narrow
Last Word
Great circles
Last Word
Wall-to-wall webbing
Last Word
Superspex
Last Word
Ropey soap
Last Word
Smoke without fire
Last Word
