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As the internet buzzes in anticipation of results revealing organic molecules on the Red Planet, ex-NASA scientist Gilbert Levin is more nervous than most

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the saintly Higgs, a wireless network of burping cows, and more

They say you can't keep a good cell down – unless you've got a microscopic pyramid to cage it in

Contrary to what was previously thought, some people in a vegetative state may not be unaware of their surroundings. Brain scans recently showed one patient able to answer yes-or-no questions.  Researchers would ask t...

Discover the connection between delicious Dungeness crabs and the San Francisco Bay.

Scientists and politicians are concerned that Tonio Borg's views on abortion and stem-cell research could influence European Union policy

Under a microscope many cancer cells look the same. And since cell lines used in cancer research are anonymous, often shared informally between labs, the only way to definitively know where they came from is with DNA. Bu...

Graphene grown on a rippling surface develops the semiconducting properties needed to become a useful component in computing

In Genes, Cells and Brains, Hilary and Steve Rose ask why hyped up medical projects often fail to deliver – plus, the man who tamed the wind

Can we exploit the fact that life is unpredictable, chaotic, full of shocks and disasters? Trader turned scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a bold idea (full text available to subscribers)

See how clear plastic can be shaped to exploit refraction, turning random patterns into images

Hopes of answers to the universe's deeper secrets dim at the Large Hadron Collider as the Higgs boson is too predictable and supersymmetry fails to show

Drought-induced stress can cause gas blockages in plants' water tubes - a new study shows that even rainforest species are at risk