17 Mar
Testing several drugs at once and allowing doctors to adapt treatments to patients' responses should make trials more efficient
17 Mar
Pulsars tick with absolute regularity. So if these stellar corpses' timekeeping is off, something must be warping space-time
17 Mar
New restrictions on sulphur emissions from shipping will save thousands of lives – but cutting back will take another brake off global warming
17 Mar
The CIA says Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's political predictions come true 90 per cent of the time. So how does he do it?
17 Mar
Male Gulf pipefish are left holding the babies: they get pregnant and rear offspring in their bodies. But selective abortion gives them the last word
17 Mar
A tiny strip of metal visible to the naked eye has been induced to oscillate and not oscillate at the same time in a quantum superposition
17 Mar
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: relativity's ultimate test, the positive side of shipping pollution, and how to see the future using games
17 Mar
An exotic material mimics the dynamics of theoretical particles called axions that could account for dark matter
17 Mar
Funding science is essential to the economy, not just a luxury for boffins
17 Mar
Physics, art and music come together in this remarkable 5D opera
17 Mar
Sticking an electrode into a photosynthesising cell makes it possible to draw off power from light
17 Mar
In Second Nature, Jonathan Balcombe shows that animals experience the world as richly as us and may well feel and suffer more intensely than we do
17 Mar
As MIT's Media Lab moves into bigger and better premises, its director discusses the social benefits of the lab's front-line research
17 Mar
Auklets use their headdress feathers as feelers to get around at night, with a role in courtship only evolving later
16 Mar
Walk by the Wellcome Trust headquarters and you might find yourself slipping into our technological future
16 Mar
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the war on Africa's horror worms, why Venus and Earth might be in a long-distance relationship, and the importance of being vague
16 Mar
Our planet may be tugging at Venus's heart, explaining a curious coincidence when the two are at their closest approach
16 Mar
New York City has offered to compensate people who breathed in gas and debris when the World Trade Center collapsed
16 Mar
US parents who say that vaccines triggered autism in their children now face yet another setback
16 Mar
Biological artist Brandon Ballengée takes strangely beautiful pictures of deformed frogs and toads. But just what is causing the deformities?
16 Mar
Opponents of the plan to retire the space shuttle later this year have been emboldened by the cancellation of NASA's Constellation programme
16 Mar
The rubber hand illusion is even more powerful in virtual environments, where people adopt virtual appendages as their own without physical stimuli
16 Mar
A novel material absorbs the energy of sound waves and uses it to rip apart water molecules, releasing hydrogen gas
16 Mar
Not only humans cajole bored friends to keep playing with them – it shows that gorillas may have "theory of mind", and maybe even a sense of humour
16 Mar
Not only food and oxygen pass from woman to fetus – fleeting sadness or happiness can also be transmitted to an unborn baby
