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Specimens and schools: 9 to 5 at the museum
12:31 07 June 2011
Handling extinct beasts is just one of the perks for Jack Ashby, who gets paid to indulge his passion for zoology at the Grant Museum in London
The million-dollar puzzle that could change the world
COVER STORY: 11:19 07 June 2011 | 1 comment
Cracking this mathematical mystery will make someone rich, but its value to all of us could be incalculable. Jacob Aron explains why it matters if P = NP
Future of money: Virtual cash gets real
NEWS: 10:57 07 June 2011 | 2 comments
Digital cash and online markets have the potential to loosen governments' grip on the currency that makes the economy go round
Fishing has driven evolution of smaller Alaskan salmon
10:13 07 June 2011
Evolution induced by fishing may explain why the bodies of Alaska's sockeye salmon have shrunk by 5 per cent since the 1940s
E3: Microsoft reveals new Kinect features
22:42 06 June 2011
Advanced voice controls and digital object scanning are coming to the Xbox 360
Early Americans helped colonise Easter Island
22:34 06 June 2011
The long-rejected idea that South Americans travelled thousands of kilometres to Polynesia is now backed by genetics
Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago
IN BRIEF: 20:00 06 June 2011
Early Chinese rice farmers selected for the same gene that played a key role in the 20th century green revolution
Today on New Scientist: 6 June 2011
18:00 06 June 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: The biggest skin cancer breakthrough in 30 years, the future of money, and AI battles Ms Pac-Man
Dark earth: How humans enriched the rainforests
FEATURE: 17:13 06 June 2011
The lushest patches of some jungles are rooted in enigmatic black soil – with unexpected origins. Fred Pearce reports
Glitz and magic as science gets the celebrity treatment
16:55 06 June 2011
Science went glamorous at last weekend's World Science Festival with Hollywood stars and the mathematical tricks of the Mathemagician on the bill
Skin cancer treatment: Biggest breakthrough in 30 years
16:40 06 June 2011
Two new drugs for an advanced form of skin cancer are being hailed as the biggest breakthrough for cancer of the last 30 years
AI programs do battle in Ms Pac-Man
16:00 06 June 2011
Teaching computers to win video games is more than just idle play
Erase entangled memory to cool a computer
15:47 06 June 2011
It may one day be possible to cool a supercomputer just by deleting some of its memory
Play Pong on a giant screen to win a McDonald's burger
15:02 06 June 2011
McDonald's in Sweden has used an interactive billboard that lets hungry users play the classic video game to earn themselves a free burger
Puyehue volcano brings Mordor skies to Chile
13:19 06 June 2011
More pictures like this and Puyehue volcano will be renamed Mount Doom. Geologists say the eruption may have been triggered by last year's earthquake
Going ape: Ultraviolence and our primate cousins
12:40 06 June 2011
The horrifying behaviour described in Among African Apes, a collection of field diaries, casts a chilling light on our own nature
Psychologist: On robot pets and video picture windows
INTERVIEW: 12:19 06 June 2011
Does it matter that we often experience the natural world through technology? Peter Kahn untangles our tangled and evolving relationship with nature
Judging a book by its cover: May
11:26 06 June 2011
Our choice for May's cover of the month explores the many layers of the Apollo spacesuit
Fleeting antimatter trapped for a quarter of an hour
IN BRIEF: 00:00 07 May 2011 | 8 comments
A magnetic trap has held anti-atoms for 1000 seconds, which should allow tests of whether matter and antimatter are true mirror images in a few years
The future of money in a webbed-up world
SPECIAL FEATURE: 12:53 06 June 2011
Digital cash and online markets have the potential to loosen governments’ grip on the currency that makes the economy go round
The defenders: Inside an online siege
FEATURE: 08:00 06 June 2011
Who will protect your money, your identity and your secrets from hackers? Richard Fisher joins a bunch of hopefuls to find out if they're up to the task
On a diet? Try mind over milkshake
IN BRIEF: 10:00 05 June 2011
Convincing yourself that everything you eat is highly calorific could lower hunger hormones and suppress your appetite
