LATEST FEATURES
Let's face it, science is boring
FEATURE: 08:00 21 December 2009 | 31 comments
Mouse urine, puréed goldfish brains and human computers. Sound interesting? Well, it's not. Honest
Beware humans bearing gifts
ESSAY: 10:00 20 December 2009 | 26 comments
Giving and receiving presents is a simple pleasure, isn't it? No, it's a social and economic battlefield, says philosopher Robert Rowland Smith
Foot-in-mouth syndrome: Pitfalls of the party season
FEATURE: 08:00 18 December 2009 | 19 comments
The more you try not to think of something, the more it comes to mind – now psychologists are starting to understand why
Five laws of human nature
09:00 17 December 2009 | 207 comments
Why is there always so much work to do? Will I become immortal? There are laws to answer such questions – New Scientist examines the evidence for them
SPACE
Orion's dark secret: Violence shaped the night sky
A ring of bright stars surrounds us, giving us some of our most familiar constellations. But where did it come from?
MORE FEATURES
Why your boss is incompetent
FEATURE: 08:00 17 December 2009 | 83 comments
The Peter principle says people get promoted until they reach the level of their own incompetence – now mathematics proves it
Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
FEATURE: 18:00 16 December 2009 | 65 comments
The absurdities of Lewis Carroll's classic disguise an attack on new-fangled mathematics, says literary scholar Melanie Bayley
Rise and fall of a dinosaur hunter
FEATURE: 08:00 15 December 2009 | 28 comments
Nate Murphy made his name as a talented amateur palaeontologist. Then he found the law was getting in his way
Psychiatry's civil war
FEATURE: 08:00 14 December 2009 | 123 comments
Rewriting the psychiatrists' bible has led to an ugly row between rival factions and claims that tens of millions will end up on unnecessary drugs
PHYSICS AND MATH
In SUSY we trust: What the LHC is really looking for
Forget the God particle - the rebooted Large Hadron Collider will give us much greater revelations
