New Scientist



Treatment hope for killer pregnancy condition Pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills thousands of women and babies every year, may be treatable with a chemical found naturally in the body


Rats feel peer pressure too It's not just humans who succumb to peer pressure – brown rats too will disregard personal experiences and copy the behaviour of their peers


Stigma helps AIDS flourish in Russia Homophobia and the stigmatisation of people with HIV and AIDS are hampering efforts to tackle the spread of infection in the countries of the former Soviet Union


Scanning corpses reveals killer's fingerprints The corpses of murder victims can now betray the identity of their killers, thanks to a technique that can capture fingerprints left on a body


Restaurant smoking bans stop teens getting the habit Such smoking bans don't just protect diners and staff from other people's smoke, they help stop young people becoming habitual smokers


Why didn't Earth freeze under faint young Sun? The explanation for why a dimmer Sun didn't chill our planet could lie in a miscalculation in atmospheric models