14:00 26 December 2009  | 3 comments

From carnivorous robots to exploding stars and bizarre medical devices, here are your favourites from the image galleries we posted this year

NEWS PREVIEW 2010:  12:00 26 December 2009  | 12 comments

The Large Hadron Collider is primed to reveal the origin of mass – but an unexpected particle could grab the news

NEWS PREVIEW 2010:  12:00 25 December 2009  | 15 comments

It's more like 6000 metres under the sea than 20,000 leagues, but an ambitious series of undersea explorations in planned

NEWS PREVIEW 2010:  10:00 24 December 2009  | 46 comments

With web addresses authorised to use non-Latin characters such as Arabic, Chinese or Russian, the internet will be transformed

FEATURE:  08:00 24 December 2009  | 51 comments

Some religious rituals are traumatic one-offs, others are soothing and repetitive - but it's best to stick to one or the other

NEWS:  13:09 23 December 2009  | 13 comments

A system called Mobicast enables cellphone users at public events to combine their live streams of video, creating a patchwork feed with a richer view

12:36 23 December 2009  | 14 comments

Clones of an ancient bush have been discovered in California by botanists who reckon it first grew at the height of the last ice age, 13,000 years ago

NEWS:  12:00 23 December 2009  | 6 comments

The online movie tie-in enables gamers posing as the great detective to question virtual suspects and witnesses in natural language

10:00 23 December 2009

By talking to his dog, a physicist explains what quantum mechanics is - and what it isn't

NEWS PREVIEW 2010:  09:00 23 December 2009  | 46 comments

Fifty years ago next April, Frank Drake kick-started the modern search for extraterrestrial life at a radio telescope in West Virginia

FEATURE:  08:00 23 December 2009  | 9 comments

The latest revolution in games consoles owes its existence to car airbags – so what hot gadgets of the future will today's technologies spawn?

00:00 23 December 2009  | 13 comments

Male Muscovy ducks have evolved super-long penises – with "explosive erection" ability – while females retaliate with antagonistic vaginas

22:48 22 December 2009  | 10 comments

Conventional theory says water ice should be concentrated in permanently shadowed craters near the poles, but that's not where it seems to be turning up

18:19 22 December 2009

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: what a best friend should tell you, our trivia quiz and sinister powers of crowdsourcing

15:46 22 December 2009  | 3 comments

The best of New Scientist's video coverage, including a tiny hovering robot, bionic penguins and plasma ejections from the sun

GALLERY:  13:50 22 December 2009

From Michael Faraday to David Attenborough, many eminent figures have given Christmas lectures at the UK's Royal Institution – see the hall of fame