Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist.'Fountain of youth' enzyme lengthens mouse life
Mice bred to have increased levels of sirtuin 6 - an enzyme found in humans - lived 15 per cent longer lives
Men's Y chromosome is not about to go extinct
The human male Y chromosome will not mutate itself out of existence just 4.6 million years from now - confounding expectations
Bioterror is not the biggest threat from bird flu
We are in more danger from a flu pandemic than flu-related bioterrorism
Don't cloud young minds
To seek to present distorted science to the generation that will have to deal with the consequences of worsening climate change is deeply cynical
Assad masses Syrian cyber army in online crackdown
Syria's violence against civilians is being matched with online abuses as the government uses hacking and surveillance tools to track its people
Europe will vote to keep Canadian tar sands out
The European Union is poised to label tar bitumen more polluting than other forms of oil. That would rule out selling it to Europe
Publish lethal flu virus work, says WHO
Advice to publish work on deadly flu contradicts a top US biosecurity panel - but New Scientist reveals that similar work has been published already
Creating buildings that repair themselves
Colour-changing emergency pods, paint that repairs the structure beneath: Rachel Armstrong envisions a world enhanced by synthetic biology.
One-Minute Physics: How to levitate by vomiting milk
Watch an animation that calculates how you could propel yourself on a jet of vomit
Broccoli and other wonder drugs of antiquity
Alain Touwaide is on a mission to unearth lost medicinal knowledge from ancient manuscripts
Climate sceptics may find fertile ground in US schools
A conservative organisation is working to sow doubt in US classrooms on the science of climate change. Polls suggest it may not fall on deaf ears
Nuclear spies use earth and skies to up their game
Ionospheric disturbances and swelling rocks could both be used on to help sniff out covert nuclear weapons tests
Diet pill aims for US regulatory approval
The makers of an appetite-sapping drug will this week take a second bite at the cherry of regulatory approval
Farmyard antibiotics linked to superbugs
A deadly strain of MRSA was born in livestock treated with antibiotics, strengthening the case for restricting the practice
Tech before its time: Six gadgets too good, too soon
Killer innovations such as Facebook and the iPad didn't spring from nowhere - all the inventions that make our world evolved from less fit predecessors
GPS jamming: a clear and present reality
Secret sensors sniffed 60 GPS jamming attempts in the UK in the last six months, says a government backed project
Boiled-to-death penguins are back from the brink
DNA analysis shows Macquarie Island's king penguins are back in numbers and genetic diversity. If only they could kick out the rampaging rabbits
Rolling stones could mean Mars still rocks
Recent 'Marsquakes' could explain the distribution of boulders within cracks in the Red Planet's surface, a new study suggests
Why is our shrinking moon also stretching?
The moon has been cooling and shrinking since its formation billions of years ago, but new images reveal that parts of it have recently been stretching too
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