Extreme weather could become norm around Indian Ocean
Climate models predict that the torrential rain and severe droughts created by El Niño's sibling will be typical by 2050 if nothing is done to stem warming
The night: Your nocturnal transformation revealed
Darkness triggers a cascade of changes that transforms you into an alien creature. While you're lost in dreams, your nocturnal nature is getting busy
Copycat Russian android prepares to do the spacewalk
Cosmobot SAR-1 will join a growing zoo of robots in space – and will be the first android designed to leave the space station, taking the pressure off humans
Crazy comet ISON returns bearing solar system secrets
Despite being pronounced dead, Schrödinger's comet is back – and should reveal a treasure trove of data about the solar system's distant past
The benefits of realising you're just a brain
It can be hard to accept that our hopes and dreams are just functions of our brains, says neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland, but it shouldn't scare us
The night: What happens at night, stays at night
Night is more than a separate time, it's a separate place altogether, freed from the constraints of our daytime lives. Step with us into darkness
Feedback: Light of whose life?
The solar light of whose life, a further parcel of puzzles, a holiday in the past, sculpture is not for everyone and more
The night: A surprisingly strange place to visit
Not all mysterious, little-known locations are physically remote. You can just wait for the sun to go down
Synthetic primordial cell copies RNA for the first time
Genetic information inside simple cells designed to mimic primordial life has been copied, with the help of a chemical made from citric acid
Beer brewing could help make better bricks
Adding a by-product of the brewing process – spent grain – to bricks can boost their strength and insulation
If you would like to reuse any content from New Scientist, either in print or online, please contact the syndication department first for permission. New Scientist does not own rights to photos, but there are a variety of licensing options available for use of articles and graphics we own the copyright to.
