Health
Electrify your mind 鈥� literally
Features
This week's magazine
15 April 2006
Issue 2547
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Life
Looking for alien lasers, not radios
The first optical telescope dedicated to SETI opens 鈥� it will be able to pick out flashes of light that are only a billionth of a second long.
News
Life
Africa’s backdoor for ivory
News
Life
Disillusioned researchers may be led astray
News
Space
Inflatable space hotel to blast off
News
Technology
Spotting weak eggs before they crack
News
Health
Investors wary of stem cell medicine
News
Health
Drug trial disaster due to drug effect
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Will San Francisco survive its next big quake?
News
Health
UK’s bird tests may be missing flu virus
News
Soundbites
News
Earth
Will replanting coasts protect against tsunamis?
News
Life
Pygmy hippos survive in war zone
News
Technology
Gangs turn cocaine into clear plastic products
News
Health
All the pleasures of alcohol, with no downsides
News
Health
Are prions the real cause of BSE and vCJD?
News
Health
Print me a heart and a set of arteries
News
Life
Paternity uncertainty: how worried should fathers be?
News
Earth
Dam puts Shanghai wetlands at sea’s mercy
News
Space
Uranus moon runs blue ring around its host
News
Life
How to stop fish eating all the fish
News
Life
Birds go on diets to avoid dropping
News
Life
Mamma mia! Eurovision voting scandal uncovered
News
Life
People need a push to cooperate
News
Earth
Masks may not help Londoners’ lungs
News
Technology
Pixar’s car stars twinkle just right
News
Health
Antiviral coating may help fight epidemics
News
Space
Lobster eyes inspire all-seeing X-ray telescope
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Space
Space weapons could make orbit a no-fly zone
News
Health
Genome-in-a-day promised as DNA is put through hoops
News
This week 45 years ago
News
Opinion
Health
Editorial: Stop the disease mongering
Corporate-sponsored disease is a triumph of marketing over science 鈥� it is a juggernaut that needs to be fought
Opinion
Health
Editorial: UK bird flu tests too good to be true?
Opinion
Earth
The value of trees
Opinion
Health
Interview: Psychedelic healing
Opinion
Features
Health
Electrify your mind 鈥� literally
Amazing things can happen when you pass a weak current through your head, as New 女生小视频 discovers
Features
Health
The myth of ‘mood stabilising’ drugs
Features
Earth
Climate change: The great Atlantic shutdown
Features
Physics
Quantum computing: When photons go AWOL
Features
More
Technology
Can’t we invent better than this?
Every invention is doomed to compromise and failure, finds Henry Petroski 鈥� but those failures can teach us a lot
Books & Arts
Technology
The word: Common sense
Regulars
Life
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Books & Arts
Life
Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservative icon by Henry Nicholls
Books & Arts
