ESSAY:  18:00 02 December 2009  | 11 comments

What does a meeting of minds really mean? To understand how people interact, we need to think of their brains as a single system, say Andreas Roepstorff, Chris Frith and Uta Frith

20:00 30 November 2009  | 222 comments

Experiments on people who believe in God suggest they endow the deity with their own views on controversial issues such as abortion

15:05 27 November 2009  | 44 comments

Its widely separated eyes give it super-vision that can judge distance and so track prey better than other sharks

12:31 27 November 2009  | 29 comments

The physician who diagnosed Rom Houben as conscious after 20 years as a coma patient has no time for those who doubt Houben's abilities

19:00 26 November 2009  | 22 comments

First "blueprint" of a minimalist bacterium show it is not so simple after all – challenging textbook accounts of the way genes work together

15:48 26 November 2009  | 7 comments

Prodding embryos with a glass rod made snails reverse their "handedness", giving insight into when the symmetry of bodies begins

IN BRIEF:  15:15 26 November 2009  | 12 comments

The brain seems to have a code for different artistic styles, which could one day be used to classify art

11:43 26 November 2009  | 26 comments

From playing sounds to sniffing roses to dreaming of computer games, we are learning how to optimise sleep for better learning and memory

INTERVIEW:  18:00 25 November 2009  | 214 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

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*