Cereal killers: puffed rice yields insight into geophysical collapses
What do breakfast and ice sheet destruction have in common? Lots, it turns out. Lauren Fuge reports.
Alien intelligence
In this issue: Inside an alien mind – The plastic problem – Calling the stem cell race – Gallery: fossils in amber – No fungi, no us – Science predicts extreme weather
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Two Nobels down and three to go
The oldest ever winner has shared the Physics prize with the first female winner in 55 years. Nick Carne reports.
Science history: the man who tried to measure weather and war
Lewis Fry Richardson believe morality should always trump science. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Science history: the man who went from bomb-maker to pacifist
Mark Oliphant was one of the engineers of the Manhattan Project, but later became a campaigner for peace. Jeff Glorfeld reports.
Watch: an embryo on show
Microscope provides unique inside view as a new life begins. Nick Carne reports.
