FEATURE:  20:00 20 October 2014

Can't wait to get your hands on a shiny new quantum computer? The good news is that you can buy one today. The bad news is nobody knows if it actually is one

FEATURE:  20:00 22 October 2014

Two million years ago we were just your average primate – then we started to have some revolutionary ideas and human evolution went into hyper-drive

PICTURE OF THE DAY:  19:00 22 October 2014

Incredible night-vision videos of daring raids on farmers' fields are the first to show chimpanzees operating under cover of darkness

TODAY:  18:00 22 October 2014

The oldest genome from a modern human reveals that modern humans with modern behaviour interbred with Neanderthals as they spread into Eurasia

DAILY ROUND-UP:  17:30 22 October 2014

All the latest on newscientist.com: quantum computer buyers' guide, life on Mars might be short, brain barrier opened to treat cancer and more

TODAY:  16:30 22 October 2014

If our best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast

FEATURE:  20:00 20 October 2014

What will you be able to run on your quantum computer? Here's our pick of the best apps in the pipeline

COMMENT:  14:11 22 October 2014

Changing entrenched attitudes that trivialise cyber-harassment against women will take more than harsh sentences, says law professor Danielle Citron

THIS WEEK:  12:43 22 October 2014

Ultrasound has been used to open the brain's protective sheath in people with aggressive brain tumours – to deliver chemo drugs directly to cancer cells

TODAY:  11:53 22 October 2014

Use of a cattle drug that has devastated vulture populations in India is in decline, offering hope of recovery – but vultures in Europe may now be at risk

THIS WEEK:  09:00 22 October 2014

The Mars One project aims to send people to the Red Planet, but a new analysis suggests oxygen poisoning from growing their own food could kill them

FEATURE:  20:00 20 October 2014

Spin or superconductor? It's the "Apple vs Android" of the quantum computing world. Here's what you need to know to choose

REVIEW:  20:00 21 October 2014

A charming and poetic account of apiculture in Mark Winston's Bee Time reminds us why an ancient partnership between humans and bees needs saving

THIS WEEK:  18:19 21 October 2014

An unexpected lull in the sun's activity will let more cosmic radiation into the solar system, endangering astronauts on long interplanetary missions

DAILY ROUND-UP:  17:45 21 October 2014

Today on newscientist.com: Julian Assange on surveillance, shopping for quantum computers, bat's winter portrait ends in tragedy, number of eggs predicts women's heart attack risk, and more

TODAY:  17:30 21 October 2014

Rebel planets orbit their stars the wrong way around – and prenatal turmoil may be to blame

TODAY:  16:30 21 October 2014

Communication using quantum means is super secure, but sending it long distance is a problem. Perhaps container ships are the solution

FEATURE:  20:00 20 October 2014

Baffled by how a quantum computer is supposed to work? Some of the biggest brains in physics can't figure it out either. Here's a rundown of the basics

INTERVIEW:  15:00 21 October 2014

The WikiLeaks co-founder says the internet can be both a tool of political empowerment and the road to dystopia

TODAY:  13:30 21 October 2014

Screening people as they cross borders never works well but stopping people leaving affected countries could have devastating consequences

APERTURE:  12:00 21 October 2014

A trek deep into a Polish forest in winter resulted in this a marvellous image of a sleeping Daubenton's bat, but the trip had an unhappy ending

SPECIAL FEATURE:  09:08 21 October 2014

With the first quantum computer already on the market, and more in the offing, should you splash the cash? Here's our verdict on the best buys out there

REVIEW:  19:00 20 October 2014

The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans's book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct

PICTURE OF THE DAY:  18:33 20 October 2014

A comet making its first trip in from the Oort cloud was caught on camera before a near miss with four spacecraft currently orbiting the Red Planet

TODAY:  18:14 20 October 2014

A woman's biological clock may also tell her cellular time. The number of eggs a woman has shows how fast her cells are ageing and predicts her heart disease risk

DAILY ROUND-UP:  17:45 20 October 2014

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