Humans
The body: Born to run… and throw
Features
This week's magazine
16 March 2013
Issue 2908
Editor's picks
Life
The body: Your curious behaviours and what they reveal
Features
The body: The continuum of you
Features
The body: It takes all shapes and sizes
Features
Humans
The body: You’ve got to hand it to the hands
Features
Humans
The body: Can you eat yourself to death?
Features
The body: Your nose knows more than you think
Features
Life
The body: The great skin safari
Features
The body: Who owns the bits you leave behind?
Features
Table of contents
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Earth
Hammerhead sharks are winners of wildlife trade meeting
It's good news for sharks but bad news for polar bears: three hammerhead species will get greater protection, but the rules of the polar bear trade won't be tightened
News
Physics
Ancient pi calculator gets a modern twist for pi day
News
Space
First rapid planet-reader makes unique family portrait
News
Earth
The melting of Canada’s glaciers is irreversible
News
60 Seconds
News
Health
US Army needs to sharpen up PTSD diagnosis
News
Life
Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life
News
Environment
Mystery bug found in Antarctica’s Lake Vostok
News
Environment
Antibiotic resistance an ‘apocalyptic threat’
News
Humans
Neanderthals may have swapped social lives for big eyes
News
Physics
Controversial quantum computer aces entanglement tests
News
Physics
Mystery boson earns Higgs status thanks to W particle
News
Earth
True face of climate’s hockey stick graph revealed
News
Humans
The father of all men is 340,000 years old
News
Life
Cloning record broken 鈥� next up clones from faeces
News
Health
Are breast milk stem cells the real deal for medicine?
News
Life
Plants lace their nectar with drugs to make bees return
News
Environment
Zoologger: World’s biggest mouth has an erectile secret
News
Space
Salty water oozes up from Jupiter moon’s hidden ocean
News
Physics
Astrophile: Glistening cloud acts as cosmic centimetre
News
Health
Lowly aspirin fights deadly skin cancer in women
News
Health
Zapping brain to improve learning comes at a cost
News
Space
Giant Milky Way bubbles blown by black hole merger
News
Technology
Cellphone sniffer hunts down illicit prison calls
News
Health
Mapping brain activity is neuroscience’s lofty new goal
News
Technology
Clawed drone grabs prey on the fly just like an eagle
News
Technology
Robotic swim buddy snaps your stroke from below
News
Opinion
Technology
Quantum computers leap into the real world
The novel D-Wave computer seems to operate using quantum entanglement, and big firms are already getting behind the project
Opinion
Health
Averting the antibiotics apocalypse now
Opinion
Physics
Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?
Opinion
Health
Smartphones can help us keep stress at bay
Opinion
Health
Nobel-winner Watson: Do antioxidants promote cancer?
Opinion
Analysis
Features
Humans
The body: Born to run… and throw
Our bodies may seem feeble when compared to other organisms, but in an Animal Olympics we could challenge for gold in two sports
Features
Life
The body: Your curious behaviours and what they reveal
Features
The body: The continuum of you
Features
The body: It takes all shapes and sizes
Features
Humans
The body: You’ve got to hand it to the hands
Features
Humans
The body: Can you eat yourself to death?
Features
The body: Your nose knows more than you think
Features
Life
The body: The great skin safari
Features
The body: Who owns the bits you leave behind?
Features
