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4 June 2015
All the latest from newscientist.com: world's first biolimb, island of wild children, female "viagra", faecal transplant regulation, death calculator, and more
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Illusions, voids and convex ghosts
2 April 2015
With a visceral and disturbing new show at the Lisson Gallery in London, Anish Kapoor talks to New Scientist
Simply irresistible
15 October 2014
Employers are judging you on more than your qualifications, thanks to the unconscious biases they hold. Fear not, there are psychological tricks you can play to make yourself seem smarter, powerful, and, above all, hireable, finds Sonia van Gilder Cooke
Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations
15 November 2013
The longest-running evolutionary experiment ever carried out in a lab shows that even in a stable environment, perfect fitness is never achieved
Mars probe to sniff atmosphere and scout safer landings
14 November 2013
NASA's MAVEN orbiter will search for clues to how the planet's atmosphere has developed, and how density fluctuations might affect future crewed missions
People-safe robot is first non-human to close NASDAQ
13 November 2013
Robot arm UR5 was yesterday chosen to ring the bell that closes the New York stock exchange, marking the launch of a robot-specific stock market index
Ban on discarding unwanted catch won't save fisheries
12 November 2013
Stopping fishing boats throwing unwanted catch overboard won't protect fish stocks – that will need tough new science-based quotas on total catches
India's first mission to Mars recovers from glitch
12 November 2013
Fears were heightened when India's Mars Orbiter Mission failed to raise its orbit as planned, but the craft is now at the correct altitude and velocity
Philippines begs for action at climate summit
12 November 2013
Despite frantic calls for the climate change talks to move forward, this year's summit is not expected to lead to firm action
Meteor impact trapped ancient swamp plants in glass
11 November 2013
The first traces of life found in glass from an impact crater supports the idea that microbes travelling on space rocks could have seeded the solar system