FEATURE:  20:00 11 September 2014

Entanglement used to be the gold standard of the quantum world's weirdness, now a new and noisy phenomenon could give us all the benefits with less of the fuss

TODAY:  19:00 11 September 2014

Spinosaurus was the only dinosaur to spend most of its time in the water. It lurked in mangrove swamps and may have swallowed sharks whole

TODAY:  19:00 11 September 2014

Ceramics break rather than bend under pressure, but nano-lattices have been used to produce resilient ceramics that could help make ultralight, tough materials

TODAY:  18:21 11 September 2014

Our brains can categorise words and prepare physical responses to them while we sleep, highlighting just how awake some of our brain regions are as we slumber

TODAY:  18:00 11 September 2014

The spacecraft aiming to be the first to park a lander on a comet has snapped a self-portrait – with its quirkily shaped target in the background

THIS WEEK:  18:00 10 September 2014

A 24-year-old woman has discovered that her cerebellum is completely missing, explaining some of the unusual problems she has had with movement and speech

LEADER:  12:18 11 September 2014

The problem of why ordinary people do appalling things has vexed scholars for centuries, but outmoded ideas won't help counter modern radicalisation

TODAY:  10:11 11 September 2014

We need to feel a certain gravitational force to tell up from down, which has big implications for the design of objects for bases on other planets

TODAY:  00:01 11 September 2014

Commercial plantations and food companies are the biggest cause of tropical deforestation, and many of the resulting products end up in Western supermarkets

FEATURE:  20:00 11 September 2014

How did a mystery mineral acquire remarkable properties not mimicked in the lab until 30 years ago? Finding out took one cosmologist to the ends of the Earth

TODAY:  18:00 10 September 2014

The gibbon genome contains weird bits of DNA that have been completely reshuffled. This dramatic rewriting of genes may have created new species of gibbon

FOCUS:  18:00 10 September 2014

Forget indoctrination, people become foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq for far simpler reasons: politics, persecution and peer-group pressure

DAILY ROUND-UP:  17:45 10 September 2014

THIS WEEK:  17:00 10 September 2014

The largest ever study of patients who wake up during surgery has revealed that pain is not the worst part of being conscious in the operating theatre

PICTURE OF THE DAY:  16:27 10 September 2014

Some of nature's rarest and most stunning atmospheric phenomena have been captured by a storm-chasing photographer

TODAY:  13:32 10 September 2014

The landscape around the famous stone circle conceals 17 ritual monuments, a "house of the dead" and what appears to be a ceremonial path

TODAY:  12:55 10 September 2014

The remains of a 3-metre-long ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at the creatures that feasted on death during the dinosaur era

TODAY:  12:22 10 September 2014

A pilot study suggests that it is possible to accelerate the development of children with symptoms of autism – even those as young as 6 months old

TODAY:  11:23 10 September 2014

Six months on from a court ruling that stopped it from whaling in Antarctic waters, Japan is angling to restart its "scientific" whaling programme

TODAY:  00:01 10 September 2014

The UK's economy would be boosted by 1.1 per cent by 2030 if it cut its greenhouse gas emissions, rather than sticking with dirty fossil fuels

PICTURE OF THE DAY:  23:00 09 September 2014

Hidden in the Norwegian forest, this huge steel web can sense the inaudible rumble of a nuclear blast or a meteor strike half a world away

DAILY ROUND-UP:  17:45 09 September 2014

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: no easy landing for comet probe, the truth about Nazi space rockets, transhumanist manifesto throws caution to the wind, and more

THIS WEEK:  16:25 09 September 2014

High-res images from the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft show its target comet is covered in cliffs – great for science but scary for landing

REVIEW:  20:00 09 September 2014

From tennis to the stock market, How to Predict the Unpredictable by William Poundstone aims to teach you how to overcome a universal human weakness

TODAY:  15:08 09 September 2014

Scotland will vote "yes" to independence, according to two opinion polls – but analysing polling stats suggests the vote is balanced on a knife-edge