ESSAY:  14:10 23 November 2009  | 87 comments

Climate change is transforming the Arctic so fast that many species could be gone within our lifetimes. But the important thing is to put human self-interest first, says Alun Anderson

FEATURE:  10:23 23 November 2009  | 40 comments

A ring of bright stars surrounds us, giving us some of our most familiar constellations. But where did it come from?

FEATURE:  10:21 20 November 2009  | 17 comments

No more scalpels – tomorrow's lifesaving operations will use robots that crawl over your heart, scuttle into your ear and swim into your eye

FEATURE:  12:30 19 November 2009  | 11 comments

Many prehistoric people lived by the sea – but rising sea levels have drowned their settlements. To raise their secrets from the seabed, archaeologists are swapping their boots for flippers

COVER STORY:  18:00 18 November 2009  | 91 comments

You want to be the fastest thing on four wheels. Should you use jets or rockets? Or both?

FEATURE:  12:16 17 November 2009  | 61 comments

Teams of modern-day birdmen are racing to pull off a stunt they hope will be groundbreaking – but only metaphorically

SPECIAL FEATURE:  17:23 17 November 2009  | 34 comments

The most influential piece of popular science writing ever was published 150 years ago. Now New Scientist brings you a 21st-century remix of Darwin's classic by geneticist and author Steve Jones

FEATURE:  12:12 12 November 2009  | 4 comments

Beautiful, predatory and endangered, tuna are rapidly being hunted to extinction. Graham Lawton joins the high-tech anglers to save them

COVER STORY:  18:00 11 November 2009  | 166 comments

Forget the God particle - the rebooted Large Hadron Collider will give us much greater revelations