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Murderer with 'aggression genes' gets sentence cut
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 7:27)
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An Italian judge's decision to shorten a killer's sentence because of his genes is raising the question of whether genes can ever absolve responsibility for a particular act
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Drug chief sacking could stifle 'polydrug' research
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 7:19)
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If protests continue over the sacking of the UK's chief scientific advisor on recreational drugs, vital research on the problems of multiple drug use would be shelved
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Injected cells stop body from attacking self
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 3:24)
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A virtually unlimited supply of rare cells can now be produced in the lab to fight diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in mice
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Today on New Scientist: 3 November 2009
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 3:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: a challenge to the "out of Africa" theory, the world's rarest species, and the secrets of Carl Jung's "lost" book
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Jung's Red Book: The art of psychology
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 2:01)
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Carl Jung's "lost" book? just published for the first time ? is a cornerstone of our intellectual history, says its editor Sonu Shamdasani
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Giant jewels and spray toads: The world's rarest species
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 22:56)
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More species than ever before are facing extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List . See some of the most endangered
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Michael Green: On the shoulders of Newton and Hawking
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 22:00)
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The physicist follows Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking into the Lucasian chair of mathematics at the University of Cambridge
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Animated ink-blot images keep unwanted bots at bay
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 21:50)
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The distorted letters we decipher to prove we are human, not a bot, are getting harder to use and easier to defeat– could images be the solution?
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Space junk piles up into threat to future launches
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 19:57)
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Burgeoning volumes of space debris are going to hit the economics of space flight hard and give mission controllers headaches
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Pay us oil money, or the rainforest gets it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 12:00)
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Ecuador's offer to refrain from drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest in exchange for money could be a novel way of combatting climate change
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