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A second chance to save the climate

4 hours 44 min ago
The latest data on the climate suggests it will warm slightly less, and more slowly, than expected – giving us a chance to avoid the worst effects    

Suicidal behaviour is a disease, psychiatrists argue

May 17, 2013 - 10:35am
Evidence from brain and genetic studies suggests we should regard suicidal behaviour as a disease in its own right, a move that may help prevent suicides    

Today on New Scientist

May 17, 2013 - 10:00am
All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: survival of the sociable, zap your brain, 3D ghost images without a camera, egg moon, and more    

The tracking tag you just shake to send out a signal

May 17, 2013 - 10:00am
A tag that transmits a radio pulse over 20 kilometres whenever jolted can be fitted to life jackets or animals, or even used to monitor damage to bridges    

Threatwatch: Could a MERS vaccine make people sicker?

May 17, 2013 - 9:15am
Protecting against the new Middle Eastern coronavirus may be hard as vaccines for related bugs have caused an unwanted reaction, but work on SARS will help    

Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein

May 17, 2013 - 8:10am
The purposeful, synchronised travel paths of the hundreds of thousands of bacteria are captured in a brilliantly colourful time-lapse image    

When disaster strikes, it's survival of the sociable

May 17, 2013 - 8:00am
In the drive to climate-proof cities, we can't just focus on buildings. Social infrastructure is just as important, says sociologist Robert Sampson (full text available to subscribers)    

Dinosaur dads may not have looked after the kids

May 17, 2013 - 7:04am
A landmark fossil study in 2008 suggested it was male dinosaurs that hatched the eggs, but a new analysis casts doubt on that idea    

Astrophile: Saturn's egg moon Methone is made of fluff

May 17, 2013 - 6:44am
Sitting in an icy nest near Saturn, tiny Methone is oddly smooth, perhaps because it is made of lightweight stuff that can flow to erase impact scars    

Gesture that smartphones can appreciate

May 17, 2013 - 5:00am
Mobile phones could soon be much less touchy-feely thanks to a new kind of 3D gesture-recognition technology that doesn't gobble up battery life    

Feedback: Light up your brain

May 17, 2013 - 4:00am
Mood-emitting headphones, microwaving security tags, waterproof sandals, and more (full text available to subscribers)    

AI gets involved with the law

May 17, 2013 - 12:00am
Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans    

Time-lapse spots faulty embryos before IVF

May 16, 2013 - 4:00pm
An imaging technique that identifies chromosomal abnormalities in young embryos could dramatically increase the success rate of IVF    

Parcels find their way to you via the crowd

May 16, 2013 - 12:00pm
A new delivery concept uses the location of random strangers to TwedEx parcels directly to you – wherever you are    

Ghostly pictures made in 3D - minus the camera

May 16, 2013 - 11:00am
A strange kind of photography called ghost imaging has been extended to work in 3D, and may one day prove useful for medical or security scans    

Zap the brain with electricity to speed up mental maths

May 16, 2013 - 10:35am
It's what school children have been waiting for – stimulating the brain speeds up mental arithmetic and the results seem to last    

Today on New Scientist

May 16, 2013 - 10:00am
All the latest stories on newscientist.com: new US agony beam weapon, malarial mosquitoes sniff you out, Google and NASA go quantum, and more    

Lifelogger reveals the day's emotional highs and lows

May 16, 2013 - 9:50am
A smartphone, a biosensor and a screen make up the Inside-Out system, which allows you to analyse how you felt throughout the day    

New memories filmed in action for first time

May 16, 2013 - 9:21am
The processes of memory formation and retrieval have been observed across the entire brain for the first time using transparent zebrafish    

Google and NASA buy controversial quantum computer

May 16, 2013 - 9:06am
New big-name clients for quantum-computer maker D-Wave may signal that their devices are going mainstream – but are they really that fast?