FEATURE:  12:11 22 November 2012  | 7 comments

For a healthier body and mind, forget food fads and try the age-old practice of going without

FEATURE:  14:26 21 November 2012  | 12 comments

Nothing is supposed to speed up or slow down radioactive decay. So how come the sun seems to be messing with some of our elements? Stuart Clark investigates

FEATURE:  10:31 20 November 2012

It was unsanitary and dangerous, but for centuries bloodletting was standard practice. Could it now be used to relieve some of the complications of obesity?

SPECIAL FEATURE:  17:50 14 November 2012

As the IPCC gathers the science for its next major report, Michael Le Page outlines seven reasons why the outlook is even bleaker than it was five years ago

FEATURE:  12:50 16 November 2012  | 4 comments

Super-smart next-generation spacebots will fix or salvage spacecraft on the fly

FEATURE:  13:09 15 November 2012  | 25 comments

Might the same forces have driven the evolution of our best and worst natures, asks Kate Douglas

FEATURE:  14:08 13 November 2012

Transmitting our senses into machines is set to change the way we live, says Helen Thomson, but it's the unintended consequences we should care about

COVER STORY:  13:36 12 November 2012  | 11 comments

If the particle discovered at CERN this July is all we think it is, there are good reasons to want it to be something else

FEATURE:  14:24 07 November 2012  | 13 comments

The intricate connections between genetics, psychological make-up and whether you swing to the left or right at elections are starting to be unravelled

FEATURE:  13:00 06 November 2012

We've got head, pubic and clothing lice, all with tales to tell about evolution, including how our ancestors cosied up to gorillas

COVER STORY:  13:13 05 November 2012  | 34 comments

Just 20,000 years ago, ice ruled the planet. So why did it relax its grip? Finally, it looks like the answers are in

FEATURE:  14:01 01 November 2012  | 7 comments

Could machines help solve our food and environmental problems?

FEATURE:  13:19 31 October 2012  | 4 comments

Ecology and economics don't always see eye to eye, but uniting them may be the only way to protect the natural world, says Fred Pearce

FEATURE:  13:09 30 October 2012  | 38 comments

They help us drive around, call our friends and power the planet, says Richard Webb, so we need to find alternatives for dwindling supplies – and fast

COVER STORY:  13:02 29 October 2012  | 2 comments

The grand sweep of cosmic history is about to be revealed in the crackle of giant radio waves, say astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Jonathan Pritchard

FEATURE:  08:00 25 October 2012  | 3 comments

The Red Planet was once warm, wet and life-friendly – or so we thought. The closer we look, the muddier the water becomes

SPECIAL FEATURE:  16:19 17 October 2012

Inescapable, universal, uplifting: the only certainty in life is that it will one day end. New Scientist explores the defining feature of the human condition