19:00 19 November 2009  | 15 comments

A comet blasted North America 13,000 years ago, wiping out its megafauna and early settlers, one group insists. Not a bit of it, the sceptics cry

18:07 19 November 2009  | 17 comments

New research, along with a Twitter-facilitated study conducted by New Scientist, reveals an important trait of the best jocks: a handsome face

16:30 19 November 2009  | 2 comments

With a flash of ultraviolet light, you can stun a roundworm. And a pulse of visible light has them wriggling again

14:27 19 November 2009  | 16 comments

Devastating brain disease caused by human cannibalism promoted protective gene mutation to emerge just 200 years ago

FEATURE:  12:30 19 November 2009  | 8 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

17:58 17 November 2009  | 13 comments

A goat that lived on the Balearic Islands until 3000 years ago had bones like a reptile – which could explain how the species survived so long

11:20 17 November 2009  | 43 comments

Adult criminals tend to be fearless, but whether this quality emerges before or after their crimes wasn't clear until now

20:00 16 November 2009  | 21 comments

Rising temperatures are boosting the growth of the oldest trees on Earth, but the adolescent growth spurt may – or may not – benefit the climate, say scientists

UPFRONT:  13:51 13 November 2009  | 27 comments

Planting forests in the tropics could be a waste of time and money, compared with planting them at high latitudes

19:00 12 November 2009  | 42 comments

Consistent patterns linked to awareness of particular images could be used to detect consciousness in brain-damaged people