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Journeying through the Great Valley's southern rampart is time better spent than inching up the Grapevine.

Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the world's oceans may be midway through the process of becoming organelles inside an alga

Self-assembling, pulsating nanotubes can act as a nano-pump, making them potential vehicles for drug delivery

It's finally happened. New satellite images show that the Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest extent on record on 16 September

Shallow X- and Y-shaped waves are more common than thought and offer an insight into the interactions that boost a tsunami's power

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cutting nonsense from the net, dinosaur sex, Navajo desalination, surveillance by gait analysis, and more

Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.

Taking ecstasy on TV may revitalise the stale debate over drugs policy

Exclusivo análisis de New Scientist revela importantes desigualdades entre jóvenes latinos y adultos mayores blancos. El futuro dorado de Estados Unidos está en peligro

The rainforests of south-east Asia are home to a rich variety of gliding animals – but most of them evolved only after tall tropical trees began to dominate the area

Politicians who lie and cheat are being held to account by the social network tools that spread half-truths in the first place

Improvements in gait analysis mean your characteristic way of walking could soon be used to identify you – wherever you are

Applying special relativity to entangled photons reveals mathematical absurdities in the quantum world that some see as a wake-up call in physics

A scheme in Arizona using solar energy to power a water desalination plant aims to bring running water to thousands of people

Paying the fishing industry to keep its boats high and dry for 10 years while stocks recover makes good economic sense

TruCentive is a software market for parking spaces that rewards users with system credits which can be used to buy information on other parking spots

Charting the evolution of sex from dinosaurs to us, John Long explains the quirks of procreation in The Dawn of the Deed: The prehistoric origins of sex

Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN[1] Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013. Professor Zalewska takes ov...

Our favourite celestial beauties from the fourth Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

Stopping for a science break, the robotic geologist will use one of its instruments to make physical contact with a Martian rock for the first time