Full text RSS - You can now subscribe to the full text of Today on New Scientist.Power backups to protect nuclear plants in a disaster
A year after Japan's megaquake, it is still unclear how best to ensure that nuclear power stations have backup power in case of disaster
QWERTY effect: How typing may shape meaning of words
Words spelled with more letters from the right hand side of the keyboard are associated with more positive feelings than words made up of left hand keys
How do you run and jump in warped space?
Independent Games Festival winner Antichamber knocks you off your feet as you try to navigate around space governed by physics that breaks the usual rules
Revealed: How China censors its social networks
For the first time the way in which China censors its social networks has been revealed - and it adopts a more subtle approach than you'd expect
Fear after Fukushima to push up carbon emissions
Countries abandoning nuclear power will need to source alternatives that are more damaging for the climate
Be school prom queen in 'social physics' game
A game that uses a complex set of rules on social interaction raises the bar on storytelling
'Untreatable' gonorrhoea joins the infectious bogeymen
Superbugs are the inevitable consequence of antibiotics. Let's stop beating ourselves up about them, says Kent Sepkowitz
First ever measurement on atom of pure antimatter
The first ever spectroscopic measurement of antihydrogen is a first step towards finding whether matter and antimatter are true mirror images
What righteousness really means
Exploring the tribal world of US politics, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that self-righteousness is an essential part of being human
Bonobos are caring because they are led by females
The gentle apes travel over long distances to retrieve lost friends - behaviour which may be down to the species' female leadership
Doubts raised over UN drinking water claim
The UN has said the world has halved the number of people without clean drinking water, meeting a key goal early - but the claim is under fire
Break bad habits by forming good new ones
In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg offers a lucid exploration of why we find it so hard to change ingrained behaviour
Middle age: A triumph of human evolution
Far from being over the hill, people in their fifth and sixth decades are skilled, experienced super-providers - and essential to our species's success
Cancer chimeras complicate therapy
Hopes dashed of personalised drug treatments after two-thirds of genetic mutations in the same tumour are found to vary from one biopsy to the next
Symptoms of late-stage Alzheimer's can be delayed
Two drugs that were thought not to be of benefit in the later stages of Alzheimer's disease have been shown to hold back severe decline by four months
Velociraptor couldn't resist dead pterosaur for dinner
A new fossil from Mongolia shows that the swift and deadly predator Velociraptor wasn't beyond scavenging
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