LATEST FEATURES
Beam them up: Launching spacecraft on a photon drive
FEATURE: 12:53 06 May 2011 | 9 comments
Move over, dirty great launchers with tiny payloads. NASA and the US military are sparking a lighter kind of rocket science, says Stephen Battersby
Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution
SPECIAL FEATURE: 11:20 04 May 2011
Humans are not only causing a mass extinction – we are also the biggest force in the evolution of the species that will survive, says Michael Le Page
Uncertainty entangled: The limits of quantum weirdness
COVER STORY: 10:43 03 May 2011 | 19 comments
In a battle between the star principles of the quantum story, there can be only one winner. Or can there? Anil Ananthaswamy investigates
Forever online: Your digital legacy
SPECIAL FEATURE: 17:35 06 May 2011
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever, asks Sumit Paul-Choudhury
PHYSICS
Muon whose army? A tiny particle's big moment
Will the misbehaving muon smash a gaping hole in the bastion of particle physics? Tantalising results suggest it has numbers on its side
MORE FEATURES
Notorious big G: The struggle to pin down gravity
FEATURE: 10:20 28 April 2011 | 7 comments
We've been measuring gravity for 200 years, but we're still not sure how strong it is. Richard Webb meets the metrologists striving to find out
Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate
FEATURE: 10:21 27 April 2011 | 11 comments
The pomp and fluff of the royal wedding belie Kate Middleton's ruthless mating intelligence, argues evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller
The secret of science's success
THE BIG IDEA: 18:26 26 April 2011 | 34 comments
How has science been so successful? It's to do with the quality of its explanations – though there is a twist in the tale, says David Deutsch
Missing matter: Where did half the universe go?
COVER STORY: 10:30 26 April 2011
Forget dark matter – a vast amount of normal matter visible in ancient gas clouds has gone AWOL. Now astronomers are finding clues to where it's hiding
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
I, algorithm: A new dawn for AI
Artificial intelligence has finally become trustworthy enough to watch over everything from nuclear bombs to premature babies. Anil Ananthaswamy reports