Humans
Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker
Features
This week's magazine
21 December 2013
Issue 2948
Editor's picks
Earth
Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering
Features
Health
Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate
Features
Life
How to train your Komodo dragon
Features
Physics
Kissing by numbers: Party like it’s n = 1999
Features
Life
Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness
Features
Humans
Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints
Features
Humans
Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)
Features
Life
All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree
Features
Earth
The great white lie: What snowflakes really look like
Features
Humans
Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human
Features
Physics
Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics
Features
Technology
Wired Wild West: Cowpokes chatted on fence-wire phones
Features
Life
Armpit cheese: The sweeter side of bacteria
Features
Table of contents
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Space
China lands on moon, kicks off next lunar space race
The Chang'e-3 mission marks the rekindling of humanity's love affair with the moon, as a new round of international explorers take aim at its surface
News
Physics
Higgs Nobel bash: I was at the party of the universe
News
Health
Threatwatch: Chikungunya virus spreads in the Americas
News
Life
First ever animals were made of jelly, not sponge
News
Earth
Earth’s poles are shifting because of climate change
News
Humans
Nature more than nurture determines exam success
News
Life
Start-stop traffic helps penguin huddles grow
News
Health
US to phase out antibiotics for fattening livestock
News
Life
Duck-billed dinosaur had rooster-like cock comb
News
Space
Weird object hints at Saturn’s moon-making skill
News
Life
Early Polynesians used binary to ease mental arithmetic
News
Humans
‘Baby illusion’ makes mums see youngest as too short
News
Environment
Zoologger: Alligators use tools to lure in bird prey
News
Space
First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa
News
Humans
Mind-reading light helps you stay in the zone
News
Technology
Bigfoot found? AI tool sifts fact from myth on Twitter
News
Technology
The mystery of Google’s sudden robotics splurge
News
Space
2014 preview: First touchdown on a speeding comet
News
Space
2014 preview: The ships that could take us to Mars
News
Humans
2014 preview: First million-year-old genome
News
Earth
2014 preview: Lost world under Antarctica uncovered
News
Earth
2014 preview: The key to surviving climate change
News
Earth
2014 preview: Hydrogen SUV ready to hit the road
News
Technology
2014 preview: Private internet to beat the spooks
News
Technology
2014 preview: Google Glass for the masses
News
Humans
2014 preview: Three-parent babies close to conception
News
Health
2014 preview: Paralysed teen scores in Brazil
News
2013 review: The year’s biggest news at a glance
News
Opinion
Humans
There’s no resting place for the human race
This year, many fixed points in the human condition have begun to look distinctly movable
Opinion
Humans
Invest in minds not maths to boost the economy
Opinion
Physics
The great ideas hiding under the invisibility cloak
Opinion
Life
Dawkins: ‘I’d rather be remembered for science’
Opinion
Life
Forgotten aliens: We should hunt for viruses in space
Opinion
Features
Humans
Sleeping daredevil: The first dream hacker
Modern dream research has a lot to learn from the century-old exploits of an eccentric French marquis, finds David Robson
Features
Earth
Rudolph to the rescue: Reindeer geoengineering
Features
Health
Chocolab: The secret recipe for low-fat chocolate
Features
Life
How to train your Komodo dragon
Features
Physics
Kissing by numbers: Party like it’s n = 1999
Features
Life
Goodwill hunting: Random ants of kindness
Features
Humans
Kalahari trackers who read ice-age life in footprints
Features
Humans
Why whisky makes you frisky (and gin makes you sin)
Features
Life
All spruced up: Breeding a better Christmas tree
Features
Earth
The great white lie: What snowflakes really look like
Features
Humans
Rude awakenings: How swearing made us human
Features
Physics
Improvise! Shoestring solutions to big physics
Features
Technology
Wired Wild West: Cowpokes chatted on fence-wire phones
Features
Life
Armpit cheese: The sweeter side of bacteria
Features
Culture
Short story: Images of Undiluted Love
In the bunker is an unsettling world, where we must face our past, present and future selves. A short story by Joanna Kavenna
Culture
Environment
Magical giant: The story of a much-loved museum whale
Culture
Life
Elvis vs Jesus: PageRank for people says who’s bigger
Culture
Win glory with your science-themed Lego creation
Culture
