SPECIAL FEATURE:  10:51 19 July 2010

We all enjoy a good laugh. But why? New Scientist reveals how laughter makes you friendlier, healthier, safer and sexier

FEATURE:  08:00 15 July 2010

Tired of status updates from people you hardly know? Pay attention and you might find those weak ties more useful than you think

FEATURE:  11:30 14 July 2010

First came the supermice that could run all day or stand up to cats. Now here come cows that fight terror and pollution-busting pigs

FEATURE:  12:50 13 July 2010  | 4 comments

Can a former Disney engineer, a hurricane modeller and a cosmologist really help oncologists make the breakthrough they've sought for 50 years?

COVER STORY:  08:00 12 July 2010  | 5 comments

These neural rhythms knit together everything you experience. But what happens when your mind goes out of sync?

FEATURE:  08:00 07 July 2010  | 1 comment

The source of an ethereal glow in the pre-dawn sky has been a mystery for centuries – but it has just been cleared up

FEATURE:  10:09 06 July 2010

Meet monkeys that father their siblings' kids, insects that embrace sexual diseases – and the chaste beasts that haven't done it for 80 million years

FEATURE:  08:00 05 July 2010  | 8 comments

The Pentagon wants a vehicle that can soar like an eagle and swim like a stingray – and engineers are rising to its challenge