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Colliding rocks and curious comets: The week in space
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 4:51)
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In the past week, a small space rock hit Earth and astronomers released images of a mysterious comet and seasons on Uranus
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Dwarf planet's body parts litter outer solar system
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 3:23)
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The icy world Haumea has led a violent life? its body parts keep turning up in the distant Kuiper belt
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Man 'roused from coma' by a magnetic field
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 2:00)
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Treating the brain with rapidly changing magnetic fields has helped a man in a coma-like state to communicate
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Fish out of water: Tiktaalik could survey the land
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 2:00)
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Another part of the fossilised creature that captures the evolutionary time when fish first left the sea has been uncovered
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Roving brain electrodes reverse paralysis in monkeys
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 2:00)
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The success gives hope that electrodes that seek out nerve cells in the brain could let humans control their limbs again following spinal injuries
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'Missing link' fossil stuck its neck out
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 2:00)
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The transitional fossil, Tiktaalik, that bridges the gap between swimming fish and four-legged land-dwelling animals could lift its head and peer around
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American icons aren't the animals they used to be
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 1:20)
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Do hybrid wolf-coyotes, grizzly-polar bears and cattle-bison deserve protection - and are we to blame for their existence?
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American icons aren't the animals they used to be
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-16 1:20)
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Do hybrid wolf-coyotes, grizzly-polar bears and cattle-bison deserve protection - and are we to blame for their existence?
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Grieving voles hint at why human relationships last
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-15 23:31)
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When monogamous vole couples are parted, their stress systems go into overdrive - could the stress of separation keep humans together?
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Invention: Natural colour underwater photographs
from New Scientist - Latest Headlines
(2008-10-15 22:38)
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A camera with multiple flashes that can judge distance can take pictures underwater without a blue cast, claims a new patent application
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