Fossils: Signs of early life
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This week's magazine
4 August 2012
Issue 2876
Editor's picks
Fossils: Not just bones and stones
Features
Fossils: The tales they tell
Features
Fossils: New answers from old DNA
Features
Earth
Climate change: The great civilisation destroyer?
Features
Space
Sweeping up the mystery of cosmic dust
Features
Health
Quantify thyself: Tracking your life from food to mood
Features
Table of contents
News
Ruling frees FDA to crack down on stem cell clinics
A controversial stem cell therapy should be regulated as a drug, US court rules
News
Earth
Ex-sceptic says humans to blame for global warming
News
Health
Ye Shiwen’s Olympic gold-medal swim ‘not impossible’
News
Health
Ugandans urged to avoid contact as Ebola spreads
News
African eye opens on the high-energy sky
News
60 Seconds
News
Space
Armadillo’s reusable rocket licensed for launch
News
Earth
Geologists to gather data for Danish North Pole claim
News
Space
Curiosity rover is turning point for Mars exploration
News
Earth
Lost world of dinosaurs threatened by gas industry
News
Health
Malaria vaccines could make the disease worse
News
Environment
Light-activated brain cells boost monkey skills
News
Earth
Japan could become second biggest solar power nation
News
Health
Prostate cancer blood test causes controversy
News
Earth
First skin cancer found in wild fish
News
Health
Daily caffeine improves Parkinson’s mobility problems
News
Space
Astrophile: Glitch boosts value of already rare star
News
Earth
97% of Greenland surface ice turns to slush
News
Life
Meteorite’s left-handed molecules a blow to ET search
News
Life
Suicidal termites use chemical weapons to defend colony
News
Health
Gene fusion is behind deadly brain cancer
News
Space
Massive stars avoid the single life
News
Technology
The intelligent textbook that helps students learn
News
Technology
Hypersonic engines promise new era of spaceplanes
News
Health
Gaze-tracking illusion lets you draw with your eyes
News
Technology
Unused inventions get a crowdsourced creative spark
News
Opinion
Space
Future Mars missions: Faster, better, cheaper?
Curiosity will be NASA's last blockbuster Mars expedition for a while – marking a turning point in our relationship with the Red Planet
Opinion
Health
The trouble with health-tracking gadgets
Opinion
Earth
The price of preserving fossils for the future
Opinion
Health
No need to panic over kids’ sleep
Opinion
Humans
Sinking the Titanic ‘women and children first’ myth
Opinion
Earth
Searching for species that keep us healthy
Opinion
Features
Fossils: Signs of early life
From petrified bones to feathers, fur and footprints, fossils are our most reliable guide to the life of the past – and the record begins 3.4 billion years ago
Features
Fossils: Not just bones and stones
Features
Fossils: The tales they tell
Features
Fossils: New answers from old DNA
Features
Earth
Climate change: The great civilisation destroyer?
Features
Space
Sweeping up the mystery of cosmic dust
Features
Health
Quantify thyself: Tracking your life from food to mood
Features
