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Great and good share hopes and fears for Copenhagen

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:  07:00 30 November 2009  | 28 comments

New Scientist asked leading scientists, politicians and business people to tell us if the imminent climate change talks can deliver

Sleepwalking into a legal quagmire

EDITORIAL:  18:02 25 November 2009

Science and scepticism are invaluable when a defendant says, "I did it in my sleep"

Researchers must stay on the moral high ground

EDITORIAL:  18:01 25 November 2009  | 21 comments

The release of hundreds of personal emails sent by climate researchers has proved extremely embarrassing

P. Z. Myers: Mild-mannered scourge of creationists

INTERVIEW:  18:00 25 November 2009  | 220 comments

His tirades against religion have provoked millions of readers, but the force behind the science blog Pharyngula turns out to be a rather genial firebrand

Unthinkable to build a black-hole starship? Never

EDITORIAL:  17:58 25 November 2009  | 5 comments

Spending time and money on harnessing the power of black holes and dark matter would not be a waste

Paul Matts: The secrets of looking young

INTERVIEW:  11:30 25 November 2009  | 24 comments

Procter & Gamble's skincare scientist knows all the signs of youth and beauty – and how to keep them

Melting Arctic: Forget polar bears, worry about humans

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

Charles Darwin: Writing Origin 'like confessing a murder'

07:00 23 November 2009  | 37 comments

Death is no barrier to New Scientist. 150 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, we have obtained an interview with its author*

Is this the end for human space flight?

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:  14:25 20 November 2009  | 120 comments

Have our dreams of sailing through space run out of history? Michael Hanlon thinks they have; Ivan Semeniuk can't see them being allowed to die

Copenhagen talks are still crucial

EDITORIAL:  18:00 18 November 2009  | 4 comments

A delayed deal will be better than a bad deal, especially if it gives the Obama administration time to bring Congress on side

BOOKS AND ARTS

DARPA: Inventing this side of the impossible

The A160 hummingbird, just one of many DARPA project that have found military or commercial use (Image: DARPA)

In The Department of Mad Scientists, Michael Belfiore gets half the story of DARPA, the US military agency that brought us the internet and GPS

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS

Stop selling out science to commerce

Good science, but who do the results benefit? (Image: Andrzej Krauze)

Corporate might and commercial pressures are undermining research. It's time for scientists to blow the whistle, say Stuart Parkinson and Chris Langley

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CULTURELAB

Ask a physicist!Sean Carroll answers your questions about time

17:00 30 November 2009 - updated 17:10 30 November 2009

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here, answers your most mind boggling questions about the nature of time.

The gadget that makes a drama out of the language barrier

16:25 30 November 2009 - updated 16:46 30 November 2009

Visiting the theatre may never be the same again, thanks to a handheld device that allows you to read the script as it is performed by the cast - in eight different languages

FEEDBACK

Great thinkers or feckless nobodies? You decide

FEEDBACK:  00:00 25 November 2009  | 16 comments

The fruitloopy world of quantum psychology, evidence that rock band Slade visited Venus and why you can't order half a light bulb

VIDEO

Andrea Marshall: Queen of manta rays Movie Camera

The marine ecologist discusses diving, underwater beauty parlours and the discovery of a new species

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