91av

View in the app Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app Find a previous edition online Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Physics

Neutrinos – the next big small thing

Health

The people who are addicted to addiction

Life

The ever deepening mystery of the human genome

Humans

Up, up and away: Chimeric bicycles take to the skies

Table of contents

News

Earth

Organic food: no better for you, or the planet

Organic crops seem to be no more nutritious than conventional ones, and are not necessarily great for the environment either, find two new studies

Health

Stem cells bring back feeling for paralysed patients

Space

Voyager 1: reports of my exit are greatly exaggerated

Lethal virus hits Yosemite National Park

60 Seconds

Humans

Online schooling is exploding in US

Health

Evolution could explain the placebo effect

Health

Tutankhamun’s death and the birth of monotheism

Space

Moon’s magnetic umbrellas may shield future spaceships

Space

Lithium mystery deepened by galaxy gas probe

Hot DOG surprise reveals new stage in galaxy evolution

Environment

Did Scott’s own South Pole team seal his fate?

Space

Two dead stars provide low-tech way to test Einstein

Life

Astrophile: Two planets with two suns up odds for life

Life

Seals use bioluminescence to hunt underwater prey

Health

Tough, super-stretchy gel could make better implants

Health

Vitamin D may increase IVF success – depending on race

Technology

AI cyber-fighter: does it feel human, punk?

Technology

What counts as a conscious thinking machine?

Technology

Vivid e-ink makes ditching books a colourful choice

Technology

Unsure robots make better teachers than know-alls

Technology

Obama’s 2025 car fuel efficiency goals are already in reach

Opinion

Life

Don’t junk the ‘junk DNA’ just yet

The ENCODE project has revealed that 80 per cent of our genome does something, but doing something is not the same as doing something useful

Online schools: pass or fail?

Health

A genetic blueprint of your unborn baby

Peace, love and Twitter

Mind

Why IQs are rising – and why it’s deadly serious

Aperture

The golden eye of the James Webb Space Telescope

Hubble's billion-dollar successor will use an assembly of golden honeycomb-like mirrors to offer glimpses into the history of our universe

Features

Physics

Neutrinos – the next big small thing

With the Higgs safely in the bag, could ethereal neutrinos guide us towards the new physics we are so keenly seeking?

Health

The people who are addicted to addiction

Life

The ever deepening mystery of the human genome

Humans

Up, up and away: Chimeric bicycles take to the skies

Culture

Making science fiction a reality

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

Physics

The wondrous life of the Higgs boson

Environment

Mutiny at the South Pole?

More

Enigma Number 1714

Regulars

Feedback: Excessively polite signs

Signs that apologise for their own existence, a return of "snow" to our TV screens, undrinkable alcohol, and more

This Week’s Letters

Ring cycle

Lack of splat

Superspex

Perchance to tweet

Browse past issues

View all

1 September 2012