This week's magazine
26 January 2013
Issue 2901
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Twitter reveals how Higgs gossip reached fever pitch
Anyone who fondly remembers the heady days of excitement preceding the Higgs boson announcement last year can now relive the experience
News
Life
Canada’s new banknotes show wrong maple leaf
News
Space
Space-miners to crush asteroids and 3D print satellites
News
Earth
Barack Obama promises US action on climate
News
Earth
Environmental crises may threaten pensions
News
NASA planet-hunter is injured and resting
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Global mercury treaty will take decades to work
News
Life
Obama to scientists: Tell us how to calm gun violence
News
Humans
Your molar roots are leftovers from Homo erectus
News
Health
Matching names to genes: the end of genetic privacy?
News
Earth
Greek economic crisis has cleared the air
News
Health
Quadruple helix DNA discovered in human cells
News
Physics
Dwarf planet Eris may reveal quantum gravity
News
Physics
Earth may be crashing through dark matter walls
News
Earth
Get cirrus in the fight against climate change
News
Health
Cognitive impairment in premature babies not permanent
News
Life
Lingering kiss: DNA persists in the mouth after smooch
News
Life
Did Mars hide life in its watery pockets?
News
Life
Moth navigation probed to improve micro-drone flight
News
Health
Flu checks its biological clock to evade detection
News
Life
To spot a fit partridge, check its fractal necklace
News
Space
Weird high-energy flare made by spitting black hole
News
Environment
First farmers’ trash put wolves in the doghouse
News
Environment
Zoologger: The first solar-powered vertebrate
News
Technology
Ford’s open-source kit brings era of smart car apps
News
Technology
Touch-sensitive video-screen floor is in step with you
News
Technology
Bandwidth-sharing app brings connectivity to all
News
Environment
Body armour to scale up by mimicking flexible fish
News
Opinion
Life
DNA privacy: don’t flatter yourself
The secrets contained in our individual genomes are less valuable than we like to believe
Opinion
Technology
A shot at the truth about gun violence
Opinion
Earth
Is Obama about to blow his climate credentials?
Opinion
‘If the Royal Institution is sold, that’s the end’
Opinion
Health
Scarred for life? The biology of childhood hardship
Opinion
Features
Earth
Midnight sun: How to get 24-hour solar power
Rust may be the scourge of electronics but it could help solar power run all night
Features
Earth
The 10,000-year bender: Why humans love a tipple
Features
Space
Close call coming: Averting the asteroid threat
Features
Life
Drone school: Tough lessons for rookie remote pilots
Features