Cosmic rays: Radiation from above
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This week's magazine
6 October 2012
Issue 2885
Editor's picks
Cosmic rays: Mysterious origins
Features
Cosmic rays: Learning about life
Features
Cosmic rays: Entering a golden age
Features
Humans
Memory: Remembrance of things to come
Features
Humans
Memory: Do animals ever forget?
Features
Humans
Memory: How the brain spins your life story
Features
Health
Memory: Boosting your mental fortress
Features
Health
Memory: Lost in the here and now
Features
Humans
Memory: Six tips to master yours
Features
Humans
Memory: Secrets of a champion
Features
Table of contents
News
Physics
World’s largest laser misses nuclear fusion deadline
The 192-beam laser in California was an ambitious attempt to pip a magnetic fusion technique to the post – but that now looks unlikely
News
Earth
How the mafia is destroying the rainforests
News
Space
Why do we think Curiosity found an old Mars riverbed?
News
Physics
Competing claims pile up around new element 113
News
Appeal against DNA fingerprinting cites ENCODE project
News
Health
Fraud in biomed research higher than thought
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Oregon volcano power project gets green light
News
Earth
Industries make a dash for the Arctic
News
Physics
Photon reaches from beyond the grave in quantum trick
News
Health
HIV could be turning salmonella nastier
News
Life
Build a Mars base with a box of engineered bugs
News
Life
Wasp has hints of a clockwork brain
News
Health
Virus leads to obesity but lowers risk of diabetes
News
Health
Black mamba venom makes a great painkiller
News
Life
Snail sheds foot to stay ahead of snake predators
News
Health
Calf produces world’s first hypoallergenic milk
News
Space
Astrophile: Blobby old galaxy boasts hidden arms
News
Life
Mammals’ ancestor was not as puny as we thought
News
Son’s DNA found inside mother’s brain
News
Space
Exoplanets form never-seen-before celestial alignment
News
Space
Buddhist statue acquired by Nazis is space rock
News
Technology
The real Tron: IT security as a shoot ’em up
News
Humans
AI sports commentator knows all the best stories
News
Health
Silk holds the key to devices that dissolve after use
News
Technology
Webcam + sunshine + time = 3D model of your world
News
Health
App helps tell your colourful pills apart
News
Opinion
Earth
Exploitation of the Arctic must be reined in
Rampant economic activity in one of our last wildernesses is a disaster in the making. The world needs the Arctic and we have a responsibility to protect it
Opinion
Environment
It is misguided to cut funding for polar research
Opinion
Earth
The sickening truth about wind farm syndrome
Opinion
Earth
Mayor of a wild domain devoted to science
Opinion
Health
Rationality’s Rottweiler sinks his teeth in big pharma
Opinion
Features
Cosmic rays: Radiation from above
The discovery of a mysterious form of radiation 100 years ago led to a revolution in our understanding of the subatomic world
Features
Cosmic rays: Mysterious origins
Features
Cosmic rays: Learning about life
Features
Cosmic rays: Entering a golden age
Features
Humans
Memory: Remembrance of things to come
Features
Humans
Memory: Do animals ever forget?
Features
Humans
Memory: How the brain spins your life story
Features
Health
Memory: Boosting your mental fortress
Features
Health
Memory: Lost in the here and now
Features
Humans
Memory: Six tips to master yours
Features
Humans
Memory: Secrets of a champion
Features
Culture
Humans
How expectations shape your life
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Diagnosing death in famous writers
Culture
Should we be trying to re-engineer life?
Culture
How far have we come since Aristotle?
Culture
Festival of dazzling displays but no big picture
Culture
