Science & technology
Issue 164 November 2009
Is Microsoft opening up at last?
30th October 2009 - Issue 164
The software giant has suddenly begun to embrace its rivals' free-to-use software. What's really going on here?
Comment (2)Issue 161 August 2009
Crude politics
30th October 2009 - Issue 161
Rows over Iraqi oil are scaring off investors and threatening the country's fragile stability
Lab report
30th October 2009 - Issue 161
Nasa's Mars lander has a Twitter feed; big science and astronomy may soon follow suit. Plus, the genomics of schizophrenia and shit
Issue 160 July 2009
Remembering the lunar landing
30th October 2009 - Issue 160
On the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing we select three contemporary records
Lab report
30th October 2009 - Issue 160
On a visit to Cern, I found optimism over the reopening of the Large Hadron Collider and a surprising alliance with novelist Dan Brown
China's naval gazing
30th October 2009 - Issue 160
Europe and America can no longer afford to ignore China's increasing influence in the Indian Ocean
Issue 159 June 2009
Kourou, do we have a problem?
30th October 2009 - Issue 159
It's a nervous wait for a €5bn rocket to launch. But it's worse if you're inside mission HQ
Issue 158 May 2009
The nuclear option
30th October 2009 - Issue 158
A nuclear revival might stop climate change. But it can revive British manufacturing too
Videotaping the universe
30th October 2009 - Issue 158
Astronomy has big ambitions. Soon its new telescopes will stretch across continents
We need an email tax
30th October 2009 - Issue 158
A penny charge for every email would stop spam, and fill the empty public purse
The life & opinions of Julian Gough
30th October 2009 - Issue 158
There's no energy crisis. Energy is all around us: above, below and in the Earth's very air. And I have just the plan to harness it
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