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We have breached Lake Vostok, confirms Russian team

7 hours 2 min ago

For the first time, the vast lake more than 3 kilometres below Antarctica's ice has been reached by drill

Big Miracle: Drew Barrymore saves whales trapped in ice

7 hours 13 min ago

Another heart-wrenching, whale saving movie, Big Miracle retells the story of the 1988 efforts to help gray whales escape ice and reach the open sea

Passing the baton: what I've learnt during my PhD

8 hours 5 min ago

The expiry date on Penny Sarchet's student ID card used to seem impossibly far away but now her PhD is coming to an end. What advice can she pass on?

Burn baby burn: Fireball engulfs fuel in space

8 hours 22 min ago

Watch a spherical flame burn during a fire-fighting experiment aboard the International Space Station

Medicine for me, not for the crowd

8 February 2012 - 10:40pm

In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, geneticist Eric Topol argues for personalised medicine

First evidence that shipping noise stresses whales

8 February 2012 - 10:08pm

Right whales had lower levels of stress hormones when noisy shipping ground to a halt after 9/11

LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory

8 February 2012 - 10:02pm

A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins will soon launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on a new European Space Agency rocket

Nine lost treasures – and why science wants them back

8 February 2012 - 9:55pm

From moon rocks to a sea monster's skin, some of science's most prized finds are lost – and with them, secrets of life on Earth and where humans came from

Most fish in the sea evolved on land

8 February 2012 - 11:01am

Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species

The only primate to communicate in pure ultrasound

8 February 2012 - 11:01am

A tarsier could be screaming its head off and you would never know it. Uniquely among primates, some of its calls are made up of pure ultrasound

Space radiation killed Russian Mars mission

8 February 2012 - 9:03am

Charged particles called cosmic rays zapped the computer inside Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe, which plunged into the ocean last month

Heated hard drives could be super-quick

8 February 2012 - 5:15am

Traditional hard drives record data using magnetic fields, but it turns out short bursts of heat could be hundreds of times faster

Bright red ladybirds spell danger

8 February 2012 - 5:03am

Its bright red colour makes this ladybird stand out, but predators should be warned: the redder the bug, the more deadly its poison

Today on New Scientist: 7 February 2012

8 February 2012 - 5:00am

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: entire genome of extinct human reconstructed and mind control could be future of warfare

Astronaut dream lives on despite cash woes and crashes

8 February 2012 - 4:52am

Would-be US astronauts seem as hopeful as ever about making it to space; Russia is banking on similar enthusiasm

Mind control could be future of warfare

8 February 2012 - 4:28am

Wars may be fought through manipulation of people's minds, and technology such as mind-machine interfaces, warns the Royal Society

Space junk makes an impact at the IMAX

8 February 2012 - 4:27am

A new 3D film explores how humans have trashed space with satellite litter, and the technologies we need to start the clean-up

Ink injection reveals chick embryo's beating heart

8 February 2012 - 4:17am

Watch an award-winning video of an embryo's heart and blood vessels in action

Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed

8 February 2012 - 3:52am

A new genome of the extinct Denisovan hominin is so complete that it contains fewer errors than genomes generated using samples from living people

New cystic fibrosis drug highlights approval dilemma

8 February 2012 - 2:37am

With drugs for rare diseases, regulators need to balance the consequences of side effects against the demands of patients with no other options

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