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Vitamin supplements seem to prevent atrophy of brain regions such as the hippocampus, which waste away in people with Alzheimer's    ...

Energy profiles of diving seabirds reveal they sacrifice flying efficiency to swim better, edging towards flightlessness    ...

A newly released rifle with a computer aiming system lets you "tag" the target with a laser pulse and analyses when is the best moment to pull the trigger, making it easy for anyone to become a long-range killer    ...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: consciousness – the what, why and how – a second chance to save the climate, fission can fizzle out, and more    ...

A man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells can see well enough to get a driver's licence after receiving a stem-cell transplant    ...

How does a bunch of neurons conjure up our conscious sensations, thoughts, memories and emotions? Our special feature explores what neuroscience has revealed    ...

Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony    ...

A report by the US Centers for Disease Control reveals that in any one year, 13 to 20 per cent of US children experience a mental health disorder    ...

From 700 kilometres above Kansas, you can see how huge swathes of the state have been patterned by agriculture    ...

If Germany can phase out nuclear power and still thrive, why would other nations pursue a uranium-fuelled future, wonders Jochen Flasbart    ...

The latest data on the climate suggests it will warm slightly less, and more slowly, than expected – giving us a chance to avoid the worst effects    ...

Evidence from brain and genetic studies suggests we should regard suicidal behaviour as a disease in its own right, a move that may help prevent suicides    ...

All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: survival of the sociable, zap your brain, 3D ghost images without a camera, egg moon, and more    ...

A tag that transmits a radio pulse over 20 kilometres whenever jolted can be fitted to life jackets or animals, or even used to monitor damage to bridges    ...

Protecting against the new Middle Eastern coronavirus may be hard as vaccines for related bugs have caused an unwanted reaction, but work on SARS will help    ...