Â鶹´«Ã½

This week's magazine

10 May 2003

Issue 2394

Â鶹´«Ã½ issue 2394 cover
Previous issue Next issue
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Lady Emma's shocking past

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

The double life of women

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Sun block

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Curiouser and curiouser

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

To trust is human

Features

Table of contents

News

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Calling time on drugs

Medicines that have passed their use-by date can be dangerous. So the University of Salford and local company Tacit Technology have devised a medicine bottle which "times out" (GB 2378941). The bottle has a standard screw cap that mates with a thread on the neck of the bottle. But the thread is not physically part …

News

Technology

Hard work for hackers

News

Technology

Ding dong, no pong

News

How mathematical beauty surfaces in art

News

Core mystery cracked

News

Fly from Gondwana

News

Death by superstition

News

Big and battered

News

Charming stranger

News

All hooves to India's pumps

News

Peanut butter enters hall of fame

News

Bad-neighbour genes clash to create illness

News

Are aliens hiding their messages?

News

Roman nose sniffs out people with lung cancer

News

New analyses stoke warming controversy

News

We hear that…

News

Space station unlocks new world of crystals

News

Micrococktails should be striped, not stirred

News

No escape for alien genes

News

If you get lost in the woods

News

Weevils save lakes from water hyacinth pest

News

Drug recall spreads

News

Space

Who needs NASA?

News

Humans

Humble clay tablets are greatest loss to science

News

A poor revolution

News

Humans

Will Iraq ever get its treasures back?

News

The next IVF revolution?

News

Opinion

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Humans

Westminster diary

SOME 50,000 mid-sized asteroids are hurtling around the Solar System (Â鶹´«Ã½, 1 February, p 5) . This is the estimate that astronomers agreed on at an important conference in Frascati, Italy, earlier in the year. So far, though, astronomers have spotted only some 1700 of these asteroids, any one of which could present a …

Opinion

Sex, brains, robots and Buddhism: looking for free will

Opinion

A healthy investment?

Opinion

Brave new IVF

Opinion

Features

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Lady Emma's shocking past

What's the connection between this fairground slot machine, Horatio Nelson's mistress and a torpedo fish? All three dispensed electric shocks to people in need of a pick-me-up. A penny in the slot of the Electric Tonic machine promised to perk up the run-down with a harmless jolt through its metal handles. Emma Lyons, later to …

Features

The double life of women

Features

Sun block

Features

Curiouser and curiouser

Features

To trust is human

Features

More

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Raise your game

SELLING pharmaceuticals must be the toughest of all sales jobs. The healthcare industry is the most highly regulated sales environment, and the customers – GPs and hospital doctors – are some of the most intelligent and unswayable people around. Although highly paid and highly qualified, reps spend most days trying to get past receptionists, and …

Careers

Bestsellers - Online

Books & Arts

Enough: Staying human in an engineered age by Bill McKibben

Books & Arts

Winged words

Books & Arts

Prime time

Books & Arts

Peak performance

Books & Arts

But is it art?

Books & Arts

A guide to mall-adjusted youth

Books & Arts

Dew consideration

Books & Arts

The Word: Vampires

Regulars

Regulars

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Feedback

ONE of the dubious joys of the Internet is how it speeds up the pace of life. Just two hours after we first heard of the decks of 55 playing cards handed out to US and British troops occupying the country to help them identify former Iraqi leaders, we got our first spam email offering …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop