This week's magazine
26 October 2013
Issue 2940
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Health
3D drops raise hopes of cure for baldness
For the first time, new human hair has been grown from transplanted skin cells, meaning that baldness might soon be a thing of the past
News
Technology
Minecraft gets quantum blocks in Google mod
News
Earth
Mars on Earth? Ask The Catalogue of Planetary Analogues
News
Health
Threatwatch: Polio re-awakens in Syria
News
Life
New UK nuclear reactors get go-ahead after price deal
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Hawaiian island restricts genetically modified crops
News
Earth
Puzzling moose deaths hint at climate shock to forests
News
Earth
Record hot year causes fire emergency in Australia
News
Life
Reprogrammed bacterium speaks new language of life
News
Space
No need for inflation if cosmos was a bouncing baby
News
Health
Brain damage in American football linked to head trauma
News
Space
India blasts off for Mars: here’s what it will do
News
Earth
Mars air turned to stone to cool planet
News
Health
Women’s breasts age faster than the rest of their body
News
Humans
Complete skull of 1.8-million-year-old hominin found
News
Environment
Zoologger: Galloping dung beetles are puzzlingly slow
News
Space
Astrophile: Soggy bogs swallow craters on Titan
News
Life
Universal law of urination found in mammals
News
Environment
Chimp calls suggest language evolved from a song
News
Earth
Gold leaves mark the spot for buried treasure
News
Earth
Deadly fungus cripples frog immune systems
News
Health
Sleep boosts brain’s self-cleaning system
News
Health
Virus-sabotaging protein may help people defy HIV
News
Technology
Body-worn cameras put police evidence beyond doubt
News
Technology
Smuggler-spotting software sniffs out dodgy shipments
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Dolphin sonar inspires coin-sized bomb detector
News
Opinion
Space
Mars could fire up Asian space race
China and India have both set their sights on Mars, with India launching a probe in November
Opinion
Earth
Gaia: The death of a beautiful idea
Opinion
Technology
Has the time come to abandon online anonymity?
Opinion
Humans
School achievement isn’t just in your genes
Opinion
Life
Craig Venter: Why I put my name in synthetic genomes
Opinion
Earth
My verdict on Gaia hypothesis: beautiful but flawed
Opinion
Features
Humans
The end of anonymity: A way to stop online abuse?
Warning: This feature begins with language that some readers may find upsettingBiometrics may soon make it impossible to hide your identity online. It could bring a new age of internet civility – if we don’t mind losing our liberty too
Features
Earth
What’s happening to the weather-making jet streams?
Features
Health
Four hearts, one hole: A problem worth fixing?
Features
Humans
Population paradox: Why richer people have fewer kids
Features
Culture
Regulars
Feedback: Ship of fools
Superyachts can apparently be friends of the earth, happiness is a well-grounded sheet, an entirely new kind of reviewed journal, and more
Alcohol
This Week’s Letters
Letters
Ticks and tocks, sir
Last Word
Long-haul racers
Last Word
Stick in the mud
Last Word
Piggybacking on water
Last Word
Quantum question
Last Word