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Our feelings about other animals have important consequences for how we treat humans, say prejudice researchers Gordon Hodson and Kimberly Costello (full text available to subscribers)

While many call for tighter firearm restrictions in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, the Wiki Weapon project believes technology is about to make such regulation irrelevant--and that that's a good thing. The Wiki Weap...

While scientific research isn’t always fun it can be a "walk in the park" when it involves bird watching. Get a first-hand account of one of the largest and longest-running “Citizen Science” projects i...

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: devaluing animals and humans, Victorian counting device goes quantum, Apple under fire, and more

Stem cells can be extracted from bone marrow five days after death to be used in life-saving treatments

The tech firm is skating on thin ice with some of the patents that won it a $1 billion settlement against Samsung

Inside Copenhagen Suborbitals, the most powerful amateur rocket project ever flown Popular Science is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos ...

The world's highest mountains look set to become home to a huge number of dams – good news for clean energy but bad news for biodiversity

A white dwarf star caught mimicking a black hole's X-ray flashes may be the first in a new class of binary star systems

This songbird doesn't need technological aids to stay in tune – and it's smart enough to not worry when it hears notes that are too far off to be true

An up-close look at chronic traumatic encephalopathy THE DISEASE For decades, the term “punch-drunk” has been used to describe boxers left permanently loopy after a career of fighting. The clinical name for t...

A lone tooth found in Argentina may have belonged to a dinosaur even larger than those we know of, but what to call it?

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world. Here are this year's 12 best

A tale of "disease-spreading" wind farms, the trouble with quantifying "don't know", the death of parody in the UK, and more (full text available to subscribers)

Watch twins fight for space in the womb, as we reach number 6 in our countdown of the top videos of the year

Congratulations to Richard Clarke, who won the 2012 New Scientist Flash Fiction competition with a clever work of satire

They were supposed to live on an ascetic diet of mainly bread and water, but the monks in 6th-century Jerusalem were tucking into animal products

As prenatal diagnosis and treatment advance, we are entering difficult ethical territory

Africa is where humanity began, where we took our first steps, but those interested in the latest cool stuff on our origins should now look to Asia instead

Don't waste time bemoaning the demise of the old order; get on with building the new one