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

Space

Space repair enters the robotic age

Physics

Particle headache: Why the Higgs could spell disaster

Technology

Body down a wire: Living your life in remote control

Humans

Homo virtuous: The evolution of good and evil

Table of contents

News

Space

NASA rover adds new twist to Mars methane mystery

The first test for the gas from within the Martian atmosphere came up essentially empty, but Curiosity scientists say the hunt has just begun

Journalist and psychiatrist awarded prize for bravery

Earth

Lab mice and radar among the scientific victims of Sandy

Earth

Orang-utans infected by mystery Ebola-like virus

60 Seconds

Earth

Climate blindness risked as satellites lose their eyes

Physics

Theory of everything says universe is a transformer

Earth

Yosemite’s long-lost twin could be resurrected

Earth

Sandy aftermath: New York City is rotting at the core

Earth

Protecting New York City from the next big storm

Entangle Schrödinger’s cat to up its quantum weirdness

Health

Sperm stem cells restore male fertility

Physics

Mathematical proof reveals magic of Ramanujan’s genius

Health

Diabetes linked to flu

Physics

Doubt cast on Fermi’s dark matter smoking gun

Elephant uses mystery move to speak Korean

Environment

Lethal chemicals mean mole rats never get cancer

Environment

Zoologger: The great white shark cattle market

Space

First stars’ light seen through extragalactic fog

Coral autopsy reveals Great Barrier Reef collapse

Technology

Encrypted fabric to thwart fashion fakes

Health

Twenty-year-old drug ‘best yet’ for multiple sclerosis

Health

Abdominal porthole reveals how tumours come together

Technology

Customise your favourite TV show

Technology

Saving the stuff of history with 3D laser scanners

Technology

OK, app, what should I wear to this wedding?

Opinion

Physics

Time to think beyond the Large Hadron Collider

To truly understand the Higgs we will need yet another massive particle accelerator – physicists are starting to dream, and now's a good time to start

Technology

Is telepresence the next big thing?

Earth

Don’t let the Big Apple rot

Health

Beta blockers are busted – what happens next?

Humans

‘Palaeo-porn’: we’ve got it all wrong

Health

Is schizophrenia more than one disease?

Analysis

Technology

India’s thorium-based nuclear dream inches closer

It's taken 60 years, but India finally appears poised to capitalise on its abundance of thorium, by using it to power an upcoming nuclear facility

Aperture

Environment

Weirdly human armadillo in samurai armour

The southern three-banded armadillo can protect itself pretty well in a ball of armour, but it is nevertheless a near-threatened species

Features

Physics

Particle headache: Why the Higgs could spell disaster

If the particle discovered at CERN this July is all we think it is, there are good reasons to want it to be something else

Technology

Body down a wire: Living your life in remote control

Humans

Homo virtuous: The evolution of good and evil

Space

Space repair enters the robotic age

Culture

Humans

Will we ever understand how our brains work?

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

What smells with its feet and pees with its head?

The true story of alchemy

More

Enigma Number 1723

All aboard the oil behemoths of the sea

Regulars

Feedback: ‘Treated’ chocolate makes you happier

Chocolate imbued with good intentions, the all-new Poppleton University, and is your salary over 70,000k?

This Week’s Letters

Pass the port

Juiced up

Answer in depth

Browse past issues

View all

3 November 2012

27 October 2012

20 October 2012

13 October 2012

29 September 2012