10:00 19 December 2009  | 8 comments

Cooking food allowed our ancestors to evolve our big brains, the zoologist argues, and created the gender roles still observed by most people

18:00 16 December 2009  | 14 comments

The award-winning writer on why his fascination with our place in the universe led him to revisit his least favourite subject at school

10:17 16 December 2009  | 7 comments

As the Royal Society enters its 350th year, its president says its mission is to speak up for science to public and politicians alike

18:00 09 December 2009  | 46 comments

The star physicist reckons he can model the entire universe using tiny computer programs – meanwhile he's trying to reinvent the search engine

14:42 08 December 2009  | 35 comments

The first private passenger-carrying spacecraft was unveiled last night. New Scientist shadowed its designer through a stormy evening of razzmatazz

18:00 25 November 2009  | 230 comments

His tirades against religion have provoked millions of readers, but the force behind the science blog Pharyngula turns out to be a rather genial firebrand

11:30 25 November 2009  | 28 comments

Procter & Gamble's skincare scientist knows all the signs of youth and beauty – and how to keep them

07:00 23 November 2009  | 38 comments

Death is no barrier to New Scientist. 150 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, we have obtained an interview with its author*

10:00 14 November 2009  | 82 comments

Ray Mears is Mr Bushcraft. He wants people to be confident about surviving in the wild, but reckons most of us won't make it through a global climate crisis

15:24 13 November 2009  | 16 comments

Residents of Second Life have spent one billion hours in this digital world. Now its founder has plans to push the concept much further in a new virtual venture