Humans
Sleep and dreaming: Where do our minds go at night?
Features
This week's magazine
2 February 2013
Issue 2902
Editor's picks
Photosynthesis: Earth’s life support system
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Earth
Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet
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Photosynthesis: Frontiers
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Photosynthesis: The emergence of quantum biology
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Health
Sleep and dreaming: Slumber at the flick of a switch
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Humans
Sleep and dreaming: Why can’t we stay awake 24/7?
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Technology
Engineering light: Pull an image from nowhere
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Table of contents
快猫短视频
Environment
Iran launches monkey into space
The Iranian Space Agency claims to have launched a rhesus monkey into space on a sub-orbital flight, and returned it safely to Earth
News
Environment
US medical research chimps to retire to sanctuaries
News
Earth
Climate change blamed for Australia’s extreme weather
News
Earth
Davos: Persuading big business to act on climate change
News
Physics
Solved? 80-year-old puzzle of the infinite sphere
News
60 Seconds
News
Retreating rebels burn Timbuktu’s science manuscripts
News
Humans
Human brain model and graphene win science’s X Factor
News
Humans
The right to fight: women at war
News
Physics
First real time-travel movies are loopers
News
Earth
How Obama will deliver his climate promise
News
Environment
Stress can affect future generations’ genes
News
Earth
Keep rainforests 鈥� they drive the planet’s winds
News
Space
Earth and others lose status as Goldilocks worlds
News
Environment
Two worms, same brains 鈥� but one eats the other
News
Health
Drug reduces enlarged prostate with few side effects
News
Environment
Zoologger: Supercool squirrels go into the deep freeze
News
Physics
Shrinking proton puzzle persists in new measurement
News
Physics
Archimedes’s favourite insight printed in 3D
News
Health
Think that massage feels good? Try adding drugs
News
Environment
Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way
News
Space
Astrophile: Split personality tarnishes pulsars’ rep
News
Technology
Social whodunnit competition launches in India
News
Humans
Mind-meld brain power is best for steering spaceships
News
Technology
Data waves keep your wearable tech in tune
News
Technology
Muscle-zapper forces gamers’ own hands against them
News
Technology
Sneaky ninja robot silently stalks its prey
News
Opinion
Challenge unscientific thinking, whatever its source
Science may lean to the left, but that鈥檚 no reason to give progressives who reject it a 鈥渇ree pass鈥�
Opinion
Humans
How should we use the keys to sleep?
Opinion
Timbuktu’s precious scientific texts must be saved
Opinion
Lefty nonsense: When progressives wage war on reason
Opinion
Life
David Attenborough: Animals are a source of infinite fascination
Opinion
Earth
Faith leaders belong at the forefront of conservation
Opinion
Features
Photosynthesis: Earth’s life support system
Unpicking the molecular details of photosynthetic chemistry, and understanding how the process shapes our environment, is a key challenge
Features
Earth
Photosynthesis: Shaping the planet
Features
Photosynthesis: Frontiers
Features
Photosynthesis: The emergence of quantum biology
Features
Humans
Sleep and dreaming: Where do our minds go at night?
Features
Health
Sleep and dreaming: Slumber at the flick of a switch
Features
Humans
Sleep and dreaming: Why can’t we stay awake 24/7?
Features
Technology
Engineering light: Pull an image from nowhere
Features
Culture
A life spent fighting fair about the roots of violence
See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog
Culture
Earth
Climate change may get us into hot political waters
Culture
Tour of the body hardly gets under the skin
Culture
