Earth
Climate downgrade: Arctic warming
Features
This week's magazine
17 November 2012
Issue 2891
Editor's picks
Earth
Climate downgrade: Extreme weather
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Food production hit
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Sea level rise
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Planetary feedbacks
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Human emissions
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Heat stress
Features
Health
Bloodletting: Return of a radical remedy
Features
Physics
Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom’s heart
Features
Health
Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting
Features
Table of contents
News
Space
Hovering moon base may be on NASA’s horizon
Rumours that the space agency wants to park a spaceport in orbit near the moon carry a ring of truth, space policy experts say
News
Earth
UK pins ash hopes on finding fungus-resistant trees
News
Technology
American dream of oil independence on horizon
News
Earth
Brazil aims to clone endangered animals
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
Calls for Roche to release patient data on Tamiflu
News
Physics
Rare particle’s decay confounds hunt for new physics
News
Science may benefit from election despite fiscal cliff
News
Health
Cannabis legalisation launches living laboratory
News
Health
Mind-reading scan locates site of meaning in the brain
News
Earth
Link between global warming and drought questioned
News
Earth
Estimates for future global warming narrowed down
News
Physics
If you want to be president, hire geeks not pundits
News
Health
Cancer’s recruitment drive of healthy cells targeted
News
Humans
Our brain can do unconscious mathematics
News
Physics
Tiny engine runs on single hydrogen molecules
News
Physics
It moves! Lab-made blob can crawl
News
Humans
Oxytocin changes partnered men’s behaviour
News
Physics
Orbiting moon gives chilling clue to black hole heat
News
Environment
Zoologger: The bird with a password-protected nest
News
DNA tentacles identify recurring leukaemia
News
Earth
Threatened coral calls in the goby cavalry
News
Health
Batteries not required, just plug into ear cells
News
Technology
Computers identify what makes abstract art move us
News
Technology
Knuckles and nails get invite to the touchscreen party
News
Technology
Smartphone gives bikes an automatic gearbox
News
Humans
Twitter shows language evolves in cities
News
Opinion
Earth
Obama should fulfil his 2008 climate promises
Extreme events caused by warming are happening much sooner than we thought they would. It’s time for Obama to act
Opinion
Health
Experimenting with drugs in the US
Opinion
Earth
California genetic food vote is no victory for science
Opinion
Fraud fighter: ‘Faked research is endemic in China’
Opinion
Antifragile: How to make an unstable world strong
Opinion
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Arctic warming
The thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was not expected to melt until the end of the century. Now it looks like summer ice could be gone in a decade or two
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Extreme weather
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Food production hit
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Sea level rise
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Planetary feedbacks
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Human emissions
Features
Earth
Climate downgrade: Heat stress
Features
Health
Bloodletting: Return of a radical remedy
Features
Physics
Half-life strife: Seasons change in the atom’s heart
Features
Health
Deprive yourself: The real benefits of fasting
Features
Culture
Who benefits from big biology projects?
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Technology
Oppenheimer: the full story of a complex character
Culture
The engineer who defeated the wind
Culture
Environment
Embracing shale gas may help cut emissions
Culture
Extinct birds come alive in a cartoonist’s imagination
Culture
