Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist.Sleeping sickness tests may identify better therapies
Just five drugs work against sleeping sickness and all can be toxic - new lab tests are the first step towards finding safer alternatives
What your online friends reveal about where you are
Even for the most privacy-conscious individual, contacts are a liability and may give away your location
Fracking health risks: Drilling into the unknown
Many fear that by-products of shale fracking - cracking the rock to release its gas - will harm their health. New Scientist examines the evidence
World's only iridescent mammal is a shiny accident
Many animals have iridescent colours to draw the eye. But golden moles are blind and live in the dark, so why them?
Painting computer surprises viewers with its artwork
Watch software paint in a variety of styles, challenging the notion that machines can't be creative
Goose flying upside down captured in slow-mo movie
Watch the first slow motion video of a goose flipping its body during flight before landing
Design Museum's aspirations for inspiration
London's Design Museum has revealed its plans to move sites in a bid to solve the world's problems with the power of design
What does 2012 hold for the jobseeking scientist?
It still being January means we are (just about) still allowed to make predictions for the coming year - Charlie Ball peers into his crystal ball
Will the Costa Concordia become an oil-spill disaster?
As work gets under way to pump fuel oil from the wrecked cruise liner, we assess the risk to the local ecosystem
Vultures skeletonise corpse for the sake of forensics
A camera, a GPS unit and a corpse left to forensic science are shedding some light on the way vultures consume people
Blindness eased by historic stem cell treatment
People with eye degeneration report better vision after controversial treatment based on human embryonic stem cells
Hyperactive sun clears space junk - for now
Increased solar activity as the sun nears its maximum has removed satellite debris from low Earth orbit, making it temporarily safer
Life's secrets lie in stars and Petri dishes
What is life, asks Dimitar Sasselov in The Life of Super-Earths: How the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet
Driller killers: Turning bacteria's weapons on them
Bacteria battle each other with highly sophisticated smart impalers - now we're turning this arsenal against them
Solar storm engulfs Earth
Solar radiation levels around our planet are at their highest levels since 2003, but they don't seem to be breaching our magnetic shields
Game on, Babe: iPads hit the pigpen
See how a new collaborative game between humans and pigs could be used to combat barnyard boredom
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