Earth
Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?
Features
This week's magazine
16 November 2013
Issue 2943
Editor's picks
Table of contents
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Earth
Air pollution blights London life
In almost half of London boroughs, the proportion of deaths from air pollution rose between 2010 and 2011, probably because of diesel-fuelled vehicles
News
Space
India’s first mission to Mars recovers from glitch
News
Earth
Philippines begs for action at climate summit
News
Health
Threatwatch: Is Syria’s polio a danger to Europe?
News
Health
World’s largest cancer database launched
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Ban on discarding unwanted catch won’t save fisheries
News
Health
UK mums offered vouchers in return for breastfeeding
News
Earth
Social media helps aid efforts after typhoon Haiyan
News
Earth
Get off the carbon train soon or the world is stuffed
News
Life
Meteor impact trapped ancient swamp plants in glass
News
Life
World’s oldest string found at French Neanderthal site
News
Humans
Musical mind-reading can name that tune
News
Health
Exercise in pregnancy boosts baby brain development
News
Health
Options running out for the US death penalty
News
Life
Alga takes first evolutionary leap to multicellularity
News
Environment
Himalayan fossils point to Asian origin of big cats
News
Space
Sunny fix would let defunct Kepler hunt planets again
News
Environment
Zoologger: Sea slugs stab partners in head during sex
News
Health
Listen up: new tool to help people who are locked in
News
Humans
Oldest sex fossil shows bugs did it missionary style
News
Environment
Monkey controls two virtual arms with thoughts alone
News
Life
Is it a sloth? Is it a camel? No, it’s a dinosaur
News
Life
Alien life may flourish on purple planets
News
Health
Genetic clue to high heart risk of black Americans
News
Space
Astrophile: Dying asteroid is a six-tailed beast
News
Technology
Hacked Google Glass recognises finger gestures
News
Technology
How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations
News
Technology
Unmask Wikipedia sock puppets by the way they write
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Technology
Can a computer virus communicate via your speakers?
News
Technology
Sewage-powered bot beats blockages with printed heart
News
Opinion
Humans
Why string is one of the greatest inventions
The first string-maker was one of the greatest technological pioneers 鈥� and there's no end in sight for its modern twists
Opinion
Earth
Natural disasters don’t have to be human disasters
Opinion
Technology
Don’t let internet companies hoard the wealth of big data
Opinion
Humans
Too much, too young: Should schooling start at age 7?
Opinion
Technology
Kick the data secrecy habit and everyone wins
Opinion
Physics
Noise is the key to quantum computing
Opinion
Features
Earth
Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?
What was the planet like before Homo sapiens, and would it still be that way if we had never gone global? We rewind time, erase our ancestors, and hit play
Features
Humans
The man who weighed thoughts
Features
Earth
Summon the bee bots: Can flying robots save our crops?
Features
Health
Written in blood: Your life history in just one drop
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