Tuesday, January 10, 2017

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  • Life4 January 2017

    Headlight beetle's glowing path caught in time-lapse photo

    This time-lapse image, taken over 30 seconds in a Costa Rican cloud forest, shows a headlight beetle's wandering path along a leaf

  • 4 January 2017

    Old Scientist: From '60s psychedelia to '90s dreaming

    New Scientist was swinging in 1966, hallucinating in 1976 and altogether more lucid in 1990

  • 4 January 2017

    Feedback: Cancer can be treated with herbal medicine, claims MP

    David Tredinnick wants to end the hegemony of evidence-based medicine. Plus: space jewellery, titles get a short shrift, and more

Humans | Technology14 December 2016

Old Scientist: How to get drunk rationally

New Scientists of Decembers past reveal an ongoing fascination with beer, with technology providing a meagre justification

14 December 2016

Feedback: Happy rats let it glow, let it glow, let it glow

Ticklish rats go red, the mystery of missing socks, man on moon meets starman, a bread that's always past its best, Kepler spots a pie in the sky, and more

Space14 December 2016

Space silhouettes: Giant monuments celebrate Soviet supremacy

Moscow is filled with monuments to the space race, when the Soviet Union battled it out with the US. Danila Tkachenko captured the spirit of the age

14 December 2016

New Scientist 2016 holiday quiz

This year's questions are based on our new book The Origin of (almost) Everything. For a chance to win a copy, answer the last question correctly

Life7 December 2016

See the explosive __life of fern fronds under the microscope

Ferns hide hundreds of ingenious natural catapults under their leaves – waiting to disperse spores far and wide. This glowing close-up captures the detail

7 December 2016

Feedback: British MPs get into a froth over internet smut

Plus Brexit discussions stuck in a jam again, teacher's homemade dictionary is dirty reading, buying cake by the crate, and more

7 December 2016

The card you'll want to send

Want to make a card that lights up the room? All you'll need are conductive paint, an LED and a cell battery

Life30 November 2016

Up close with the giant teeth of the deep-sea fangtooth

The fish is found up to 5 kilometres below the sea's surface and those teeth aren't just for show: it can eat creatures that are a third its size

Health30 November 2016

Have you talked to your family about organ donation?

Too many people die waiting for an organ transplant. Here's how you could save one of them

30 November 2016

Feedback: Biodynamic grapes feel wrath of the supermoon

Plus Laurel and Hardy are a sight for sore eyes, fat robot goes on rampage at China tech fair, a simple solution to those short on salt spas, and more

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