TOP GALLERY
Total recall: The milestones of 2009
If your memory doesn't last much longer than the half-life of copernicium (less than a millisecond), refresh those brain banks with our review of the year, ranging from solar storm Armageddon to a vegetarian spider
LATEST GALLERIES
Quiz: Ten curiosities to identify
BOOKS & ARTS: 10:42 21 December 2009
These are the weirdest objects in the Wellcome Library in London – can you guess what they are?
Is synaesthesia a high-level brain power?
THIS WEEK: 14:00 17 December 2009 | 36 comments
The cross-sensory condition requires attention, which suggests it reveals special ability in "higher" brain areas responsible for language and attention
Masterworks in Petri dishes
12:14 16 December 2009
Dangerous, yes; useful, sometimes; works of art – no. But this gallery of the best microbial artworks might change your mind
Unfolding the Earth
14:16 10 December 2009 | 1 comment
A new way to unpeel and flatten out the Earth's skin without distorting it – dubbed myriahedral projection – provides a new perspective on our planet.
BREEDING
Cloners versus sexuals: The great breeding wars
Not all species reproduce by having sex; far from it. We explore some of the stranger methods of having kids that evolution has thrown up
MORE GALLERIES
Pictures of the great alone: Scott and Shackleton's Antarctic
14:14 09 December 2009 | 1 comment
Photographers accompanied Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their ill-fated expeditions to Antarctica – here are some of their best pictures
Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons
FEATURE: 10:53 07 December 2009 | 142 comments
From penguins to fruit flies to people, nature bustles with same-sex sex. Is it an evolutionary puzzle or a force for change?
Inside the world of steampunk
12:22 03 December 2009 | 3 comments
Think modern technology seen through the eyes of Jules Verne and you've got steampunk. See our pick of the best from the world's first exhibition dedicated to the sci-fi genre
Calendar competition: the winners
16:31 01 December 2009 | 3 comments
How have science and technology affected your world? See the answer here, in the best photos readers entered for the 2010 New Scientist calendar
The world's fastest computers
12:20 27 November 2009 | 2 comments
The twice-yearly Top500 list has just been released – here are the five fastest machines on the planet
SNOW
Snowflakes as you've never seen them before
These snowflake photos were taken using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope. See for yourself.
