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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... (875 days ago)

2. Quirkology

   

   Professor Richard Wiseman takes us on a tour of the weird, the wonderful and the human mind. Also... (927 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... (934 days ago)

4. Rock Steady!

   

   What can the precariously balanced boulders of California and Nevada tell us about predicting the... (941 days ago)

5. A War of Numbers

   

   Epidemiologist Gilbert Burham ignited controversy after publishing figures suggesting the number ... (948 days ago)

6. Cosmic Axis of Evil

   

   New evidence suggests the universe may have a preferred direction – the so-called axis of e... (955 days ago)

7. Darwin's Descendant

   

   Author Matthew Chapman recounts his experience as a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin coveri... (966 days ago)

8. I Am a Strange Loop

   

   Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter recounts his life-long journey into the nature of the self... (973 days ago)

9. A New State of Matter

   

   An oddly named mineral (herbertsmithite) could contain a bizarre new state of matter and bring us... (980 days ago)

10. Chimp culture

    

    In the Fongoli region of Senegal chimps have been observed hunting prey with spears and taking sh... (987 days ago)

11. Good and evil

    

    Is there a biological basis for our sense of right and wrong? Author and cognitive evolution rese... (994 days ago)

12. Science in San Francisco

    

    Bio-engineering better biofuels, recalling infant memory, stalking killer asteroids and more! Sci... (1004 days ago)

13. Dark dilemma

    

    We grapple with dark energy, the biggest mystery in the universe. Also this week, was the genome ... (1012 days ago)

14. Hearing voices

    

    A new approach to voice synthesis puts the emphasis on personality rather than the sound behind t... (1018 days ago)

15. Brains and games

    

    In two separate stories we look at recent progress in simulating the behaviour of neurons and the... (1025 days ago)

16. Born to be fat?

    

    A scientist puts his research subjects on Morgan Spurlock’s “supersize” diet &#... (1032 days ago)

17. Gold rush!

    

    A novel contraption to sample deep, geothermally heated water allows scientists to solve a long s... (1035 days ago)

18. Deep space special

    

    Stories from beyond the solar system, including a new map that reveals the universe’s hidde... (1046 days ago)

19. New Scientist Live!

    

    Three renowned thinkers converge to discuss what the next 50 years will bring for physics, life s... (1053 days ago)

20. Super 'snow' flake!

    

    For our holiday special, research psychologist Richard Wiseman teams up with a troop of circus cl... (1068 days ago)