Science and Technology
Issue 167 February 2010
No end of the affair
27th January 2010 - Issue 167
What causes people like John Terry to play away from home? The reasons we have affairs could be down to our biology
Comment (4)Back to the moon
27th January 2010 - Issue 167
Its south pole may be as valuable as Saudi Arabia’s oilfields. But who will get there first?
Go figure
27th January 2010 - Issue 167
The web could revolutionise the way we solve the world’s toughest mathematical problems
Issue 166 January 2010
Star wars
27th January 2010 - Issue 166
Will the EU’s “civilian” satellites also be used to guide bombs?
Need to know
27th January 2010 - Issue 166
Risks and benefits to our health are dangerously exaggerated
Issue 165 December 2009
Short and tweet
27th January 2010 - Issue 165
The media is full of scare stories about how Twitter and other new technologies are shrinking our attention spans. But there could be hidden benefits to our busy, distracted lives
Heavy metal
27th January 2010 - Issue 165
China’s monopoly on rare earth metals could choke economies across the world
Issue 164 November 2009
Temperature: where is the tipping point?
27th January 2010 - Issue 164
Emissions are a cumulative game
A mountain to climb
27th January 2010 - Issue 164
The coal industry is trying to reinvent itself by capturing and burying carbon emissions deep underground. But it’s proving a struggle
The human time bomb
27th January 2010 - Issue 164
To cut emissions we have to curb world population. So why isn’t this Copenhagen’s top priority?
Issue 163 October 2009
A load of rubbish
27th January 2010 - Issue 163
We can convert the food we bin into energy. But there’s a better, cheaper alternative
No kidding
27th January 2010 - Issue 163
New brain scanners claim to distinguish truth from lies. Should we trust them?
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