Health
Time for some grains of truth about wheat and gluten
Opinion
This week's magazine
12 July 2014
Issue 2977
Editor's picks
Table of contents
快猫短视频
Health
Master plan hatched as African Ebola deaths pass 500
African nations have hatched a strategy to halt the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and doctors are demanding greater use of technology in the fight
News
Earth
Iran to spend $500 million to save shrunken Lake Urmia
News
Space
First data from space megacamera delayed nine months
News
Earth
Stopping harmful climate change is surprisingly cheap
News
Environment
60 Seconds
News
Humans
Boycott threat is headache for human brain project
News
Space
Next generation of space cowboys get ready to fly
News
Health
Simple blood test gives early warning of Alzheimer’s
News
Earth
Australia’s epic scheme to farm its northern wilds
News
Health
Stem cell treatment causes nasal growth in woman’s back
News
Health
Tiny waves could build livers on a ‘liquid template’
News
Life
Killer frog fungus could be its own nemesis
News
Health
Skin’s ability to ‘smell’ seems to help it heal itself
News
Space
First life-friendly exoplanet may not exist after all
News
Physics
Colour-changing metal to yield thin, flexible displays
News
Health
Oldest case of Down’s syndrome from medieval France
News
Health
Idle minds succumb to temptation of electric shocks
News
Environment
Frisky flower uses bellows to blast pollen at birds
News
Environment
Evolution of placentas upended fish sexual politics
News
Health
How magic mushrooms induce a dreamlike state
News
Space
Cool planet hints at potential for life in double stars
News
Earth
Swimming, climbing robots explore the hostile Arctic
News
Technology
Medical app amasses evidence against war-zone rapists
News
Technology
One Per Cent
News
Humans
Virtual body-hack lets you become someone else
News
Technology
Magnetic messages let smartphones receive secret data
News
Opinion
Health
Fighting fear, denial and death on Ebola frontline
Medical staff can beat Ebola with more drugs and better health education
Opinion
Health
US bioterror fears are driving Ebola drug development
Opinion
Life
I’m homing in on the genetic essence of life
Opinion
Health
Know this: the latest psychotherapy transforms lives
Opinion
Features
Health
Should you eat wheat? The great gluten debate
A staple food for millennia, wheat is now accused of causing everything from gut ailments to mental disorders. Linda Geddes separates the facts from the chaff
Features
Technology
Phone invaders: The rise of mobile malware
Features
Earth
Snail trail: How to expel the gardener’s biggest enemy
Features
Physics
Rogue elements: What’s wrong with the periodic table
Features
Culture
Life
Reaping the whirlwind of Nazi eugenics
In the 1960s, eugenics was reinvented as behaviour genetics, but soon went back off the rails. Aaron Panofsky's Misbehaving Science explores what happened
Culture
Technology
Revealing all: A history of secret writing
Culture
Technology
Acoustic art and industrial architecture make music
Culture
