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1. Climate Change USA

   

   The US is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and the nation that can do the mo... (318 days ago)

2. Quirkology

   

   Professor Richard Wiseman takes us on a tour of the weird, the wonderful and the human mind. Also... (370 days ago)

3. How To Make Up Your Mind

   

   New developments in brain science shed light on how our minds grapple with decisions, large and s... (377 days ago)

4. Rock Steady!

   

   What can the precariously balanced boulders of California and Nevada tell us about predicting the... (384 days ago)

5. A War of Numbers

   

   Epidemiologist Gilbert Burham ignited controversy after publishing figures suggesting the number ... (391 days ago)

6. Cosmic Axis of Evil

   

   New evidence suggests the universe may have a preferred direction – the so-called axis of e... (398 days ago)

7. Darwin's Descendant

   

   Author Matthew Chapman recounts his experience as a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin coveri... (409 days ago)

8. I Am a Strange Loop

   

   Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter recounts his life-long journey into the nature of the self... (416 days ago)

9. A New State of Matter

   

   An oddly named mineral (herbertsmithite) could contain a bizarre new state of matter and bring us... (423 days ago)

10. Chimp culture

    

    In the Fongoli region of Senegal chimps have been observed hunting prey with spears and taking sh... (430 days ago)

11. Good and evil

    

    Is there a biological basis for our sense of right and wrong? Author and cognitive evolution rese... (437 days ago)

12. Science in San Francisco

    

    Bio-engineering better biofuels, recalling infant memory, stalking killer asteroids and more! Sci... (447 days ago)

13. Dark dilemma

    

    We grapple with dark energy, the biggest mystery in the universe. Also this week, was the genome ... (455 days ago)

14. Hearing voices

    

    A new approach to voice synthesis puts the emphasis on personality rather than the sound behind t... (461 days ago)

15. Brains and games

    

    In two separate stories we look at recent progress in simulating the behaviour of neurons and the... (468 days ago)

16. Born to be fat?

    

    A scientist puts his research subjects on Morgan Spurlock’s “supersize” diet &#... (475 days ago)

17. Gold rush!

    

    A novel contraption to sample deep, geothermally heated water allows scientists to solve a long s... (478 days ago)

18. Deep space special

    

    Stories from beyond the solar system, including a new map that reveals the universe’s hidde... (489 days ago)

19. New Scientist Live!

    

    Three renowned thinkers converge to discuss what the next 50 years will bring for physics, life s... (496 days ago)

20. Super 'snow' flake!

    

    For our holiday special, research psychologist Richard Wiseman teams up with a troop of circus cl... (511 days ago)