This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Features
Judge Mental: Blinded by bias
Features
Physics
Truth of the matter: The Majorana particle mystery
Features
Humans
Eau de BO: The allure of sweat
Features
Physics
The power of cool: Whatever became of Starlite?
Features
Judge Mental: How bias affects judicial sentences
Features
Judge Mental: Mistaken-identity parades
Features
Judge Mental: Forget the consequences
Features
Table of contents
News
Why Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is an exciting destination
Ocean, oxygen and auroras are drawing the European Space Agency to the largest moon in our solar system
News
Health
Researcher death highlights dangers of pathogen work
News
Health
Taser stun gun linked to heart attacks
News
Earth
Fracking drives pronghorn herds out of Wyoming habitat
News
Health
Fears over incurable TB deepen after retesting
News
Activists threaten to uproot engineered UK crops
News
60 Seconds
News
Physics
Facebook shares are overvalued, say financial analysts
News
Space
Private firm SpaceX gears up to spark next space age
News
Space
Death Valley provides rover’s-eye view of Mars geology
News
Life
With no paper trail, can science determine age?
News
Humans
The humanity switch: How one gene made us brainier
News
Physics
Roulette beater spills physics behind victory
News
Earth
Sauropod farts warmed the planet
News
Physics
Silicon cracks could make a lab-on-a-chip
News
Physics
Acoustic graphene could act as a sonic cloak
News
Health
Brain sees metaphor and simile differently
News
Humans
Blonde hair evolved independently in Pacific islands
News
Space
Dust rings not ‘smoking gun’ for planets after all
News
Health
Touch sensitivity is genetically linked to hearing
News
Earth
Water striders thrive on Pacific Garbage Patch
News
Humans
Why milk doesn’t turn breasts to bone
News
Technology
Beyond Kinect: Gestural computer spells keyboard death
News
Technology
Wikipedia busts the language barrier
News
Technology
Speckle-free lasers could power high-definition imaging
News
Opinion
Humans
We are the improbable ape
If evolution is all about "climbing mount improbable", humans have climbed higher than any
Opinion
Space
Silicon Valley reaches for the sky
Opinion
The cyborg future is almost upon us
Opinion
Earth
Do we know enough to ensure safe Arctic drilling?
Opinion
Earth
‘Nobody is exempt from climate responsibility’
Opinion
Humans
Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance
Opinion
Features
Physics
Truth of the matter: The Majorana particle mystery
Can a single entity be matter and antimatter at the same time? It looks like it
Features
Humans
Eau de BO: The allure of sweat
Features
Physics
The power of cool: Whatever became of Starlite?
Features
Judge Mental: How bias affects judicial sentences
Features
Judge Mental: Mistaken-identity parades
Features
Judge Mental: Suspect interviews
Features
Judge Mental: Blinded by bias
Features
Judge Mental: Forget the consequences
Features
Culture
Evening Star’s rare path across the sun
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Power switch: A nuclear future without uranium
Culture
Why geeks should be invited to the policy party
Culture
Will technology bring out the best or worst in us?
Culture