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Amateur captures glittering all-sky view of the cosmos
21:49 13 May 2011
A globe-trotting photographer has crafted an extensive portrait of the night sky using more than 37,000 exposures from around the world
Super-accurate clocks emerge from 'heat haze'
18:59 13 May 2011
Sharpening up the tick of atomic clocks promises to make them accurate to better than a second over the lifetime of the universe
Antiviral drugs stop HIV spreading to sexual partners
18:26 13 May 2011
Giving drugs to healthy but HIV-positive partners could massively reduce the spread of the virus
Today on New Scientist: 13 May 2011
18:00 13 May 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Fukushima fuel rods may have melted, a pedal-powered helicopter, and squid in space
Stem cell setback as mice reject own tissue
18:00 13 May 2011
Mice have rejected transplants of stem cells generated from their own skin cells
Human-powered helicopter takes flight... just
17:46 13 May 2011
Watch a massive four-rotor helicopter taking flight on pedal power alone
CultureLab loves... 13 May 2011 edition
17:31 13 May 2011
What CultureLab loves in science and art this week
Feedback: Nano-sized signal sucker
FEEDBACK: 16:37 13 May 2011
World's first table top echo friendly black hole broadband signal sucker, a bearish Dark Cloud Cover candlestick pattern, digital feet, and more
Friday Illusion: Fixed objects move before your eyes
16:22 13 May 2011
Watch how your focus of attention can affect where an object seems to be
Yangtze drought leaves shipping high and dry
15:55 13 May 2011
A 228-kilometre stretch of the China's Yangtze river has been closed to shipping, despite open sluice gates at the Three Gorges dam
Squid go into space – for the sake of humanity
15:39 13 May 2011
Some of our most intelligent invertebrates are blasting off on the next shuttle flight. Their mission: to reveal whether good bacteria go bad in space
How bin Laden sent emails without internet connection
14:58 13 May 2011
The late Al-Qaida leader avoided the telltale use of an internet connection by having his missives transmitted from distant internet cafés
Fukushima fuel rods may have melted
14:43 13 May 2011
A fixed water gauge in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex suggests some of the fuel rods in the stricken plant may have melted
Unsociable methane comes in from the cold
14:20 13 May 2011 | 1 comment
Methane's unwillingness to bond with other molecules has been overcome, making the abundant molecule far more attractive as a chemical building block
Twitter helped doctors during Japanese disaster
12:57 13 May 2011
Tweeting doctors directed patients to medical supplies following the Japanese earthquake
Graphene may reveal the grain of space-time
THIS WEEK: 12:30 13 May 2011 | 2 comments
The atomic grid of graphene may mimic a lattice underlying reality, an idea that could explain the curious spin of the electron
Fermenting fruit did not lead to alcohol gene
THIS WEEK: 10:26 13 May 2011 | 2 comments
Vertebrates gained the genes used to metabolise ethanol 310 million years before flowering plants started producing much of the intoxicating stuff
Public weighs in on what makes a galaxy
23:13 12 May 2011
Earlier this year, astronomers set up an Idol-style contest to determine how to define a galaxy – more than 1600 votes are now in
US fighting machine going green
GALLERY: 19:00 12 May 2011
From biofuelled fighter jets to roll-up solar blankets, the US navy is on a mission to stop using fossil fuels
Sound test could identify 'locked-in' patients
19:00 12 May 2011
Minimally conscious people appear to process sound differently to those in a vegetative state
Today on New Scientist: 12 May 2011
18:00 12 May 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Higgs imposters at the LHC, chimps hunt monkeys to extinction, and a "vertical street"
Inaccurate IQs could be a matter of life and death
17:26 12 May 2011 | 1 comment
People in the US with intellectual disabilities could have been wrongly put to death because their IQ test score was inaccurate