19:38 13 November 2009  | 40 comments

NASA's LCROSS mission has confirmed an icy store of water at the moon's south pole

INTERVIEW:  10:00 14 November 2009  | 33 comments

Ray Mears is Mr Bushcraft. He wants people to be confident about surviving in the wild, but reckons most of us won't make it through a global climate crisis

18:00 13 November 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: why you shouldn't mix cocaine and pepper spray, a green makeover for piezoelectronics, and a joyride through the nanoworld

INTERVIEW:  15:24 13 November 2009  | 10 comments

Residents of Second Life have spent one billion hours in this digital world. Now its founder has plans to push the concept much further in a new virtual venture

13:57 13 November 2009  | 9 comments

Two peculiar white dwarfs with more oxygen than carbon are like nothing anybody has seen before

UPFRONT:  13:51 13 November 2009  | 23 comments

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

12:10 13 November 2009

A compound commonly found in plastic food and drink containers appears to cause erectile dysfunction and other sexual performance problems in men. But how worried should we be, asks Nic Fleming

THIS WEEK:  12:02 13 November 2009  | 23 comments

A mouse experiment suggests deaths in US police custody may have been the result of an interaction between capsaicin and psychostimulant drugs

11:00 13 November 2009

George Whitesides and Felice Frankel take you on a whirlwind tour of the tiny in No Small Matter: Science on the nanoscale

18:05 12 November 2009  | 6 comments

Piezoelectric materials have traditionally been made from lead, but now there's a clean alternative that could soon perform just as well

19:00 12 November 2009  | 26 comments

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

18:00 12 November 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: the quest to tag the tigers of the sea, the promise and perils of solar sailing, and the peeriodic table of illusions

17:42 12 November 2009  | 16 comments

A technique to bounce ultra-cold atoms provides a new way to test the strength of gravity with high accuracy

ESSAY:  16:45 12 November 2009  | 15 comments

Illusions can tell us much about how our brains work, but first we need to know how each one works, says Richard L. Gregory

THIS WEEK:  16:02 12 November 2009  | 18 comments

This intriguing idea would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu

12:41 12 November 2009  | 14 comments

Differences in brain activity may make musicians better at picking out speech from a noisy background

FEATURE:  12:12 12 November 2009  | 3 comments

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

11:47 12 November 2009  | 60 comments

A contact lens fitted with an LED and the circuitry to harvest power from radio waves is the first step towards a new kind of head-up display

11:00 12 November 2009

Blockbuster film 2012 takes creative licence with reality...and with science.

UPFRONT:  10:49 12 November 2009  | 25 comments

Times are tough for tuna as scientists' advice on managing stocks falls on deaf ears

21:30 11 November 2009  | 22 comments

Despite earlier failures, the Planetary Society is gearing up to test another solar sail in space in a year – executive director Louis Friedman explains why

THIS WEEK:  22:00 11 November 2009  | 16 comments

If the results in mice translate to humans, the laws that determine the noises workers can be exposed to may need to change

19:00 11 November 2009

A new gene therapy appears to bulk up monkeys' muscles - it adds to the worries about gene doping in sport, says Linda Geddes

18:00 11 November 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: what the LHC is really looking for, how a mini ice age took hold of Europe in months, and how to get a club-winged manakin excited

18:00 11 November 2009  | 27 comments

A set of 116 genes influenced by Foxp2 could have coevolved to give humans language