A new X-Prize competition is challenging people to come up with alternative energy ideas. Find out more in this video.

See the first movies of moving atoms: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16100?DCMP=youtube The peculiar movement of knifefish explained and a cheap and easy way to mix and unmix liquids: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16073?DCMP=youtube

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/test.html Ian Rowe of MTV discusses how technology affected the 2008 presidential election

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/test.html Cyrus Krohn, director of the Republican National Committee's e-campaign and co-founder of Slate Magazine, says what we saw in this election is just a taste of what's to come.

See a new technique to make photos come to life: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16048 Cannibalistic spiders: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16025 And the world's largest interactive video installation.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16033?DCMP=youtube A ring of dust surrounds the star Fomalhaut. Images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004 and 2006 show that a white dot just inside the dust ring moved in the intervening two years. Researchers believe the dot is a planet that weighs no more than 3 Jupiter masses and lies ...

See a robot helicopter that can dodge buildings:http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15150 Speakers made of cling film: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn15098 And a new type of slush that can preserve organs.

Watch a disembodied head that can mimic expressions: http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn15055?DCMP=youtube See a new 'Frankenphone' with a heartbeat: http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg20026806.100?dcmp=youtube Find out about a glass table that can make ghostly images appear on the surface: http://www.newscientist.com/...

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn15054?DCMP=youtube An extensive salmon tracking experiment shows how and where they perish during their first migration.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/microsoft-takes-touchscreens-t.html See two new 3D alternatives to a computer monitor.

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15055?DCMP=youtube Watch Jules the robot copy a speech recited by a person and captured on camera.

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn15044?DCMP=youtube This new Microsoft interface could soon allow you to use the area around a phone to control it.

Find out how a Playmobil boat in a tank explains the 'dead water' effect, see a newly-discovered coral reef and bisexual beetles.

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15033?DCMP=youtube Watch some stunning new vortex simulations that are helping physicists understand turbulence.

Watch the complete video here: http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/x-rays/ Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15016?DCMP=youtube Unwinding a roll of sticky tape produces bursts of X-rays and the energy could even be high enough to trigger nuclear fusion.

Read more: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn15008?DCMP=youtube Watch footage from the launch of the Chandrayaan spacecraft earlier this morning.

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15010?DCMP=youtube Nanoparticles packed with drugs can be delivered quickly to tissue if they are loaded into larger exploding capsules

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn15003 Researchers have recreated the 'dead water' effect in the lab to better understand how it slows down ships.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14989?DCMP=youtube Researchers have found that when a male beetle mates with a female, it can pass on another male's sperm acquired from a previous male-on-male encounter.

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg20026781.400?DCMP=youtube Find out how coral bleaching occurs.

Find out how squid use ink to communicate, the secrets of worm grunting and why a new pill turns into a sponge when it's swallowed.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14970?DCMP=youtube When squid see ink squirted by another squid, they interpret is as a signal of danger.

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14966?DCMP=youtube Researchers revisit Stanley Miller's famous spark experiments from the 1950s and find some new results.

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14956?DCMP=youtube Photos of the Jakobshavn glacier taken over the course of a year reveal how it's breaking up.

Read more: http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14940?DCMP=youtube Researchers have found that worm charmers are able to lure worms by mimicking the vibrations of predatory moles.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet. Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time. Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet

New Scientist talks to Ben Goldacre about his new book - Bad Science. Read a review of the book at: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg20026772.600-review-ibad-sciencei-by-ben-goldacre.html

Evidence that the reward areas of the male finch brain are stimulated by singing to females

Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ A live lion hunt has been beamed over the internet for the first time, allowing viewers to glimpse nature in the raw in real time.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14889-worlds-deepest-living-fish-caught-on-film.html?DCMP=youtube Deepest-living fish caught on camera for the first time

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Read more: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14878?DCMP=youtube Material in the outer 30% of the Sun is thought to rise and fall in churning cells. After the hot material rises, it releases energy and falls downwards. Because it already has some sideways motion, calculations show this cooler plasma should spiral into the Sun as it falls lik...

Fluorescent particles added to red blood cells which make them glow when exposed to infrared light. This allows imaging of the movement of individual blood cells through capillaries at the back of the eye in rabbits. Read more at http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg20026765.800-nanomagnets-inside-blood-cells-bring-scans-into-focus.htm...

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ Bee swarms follow high-speed 'streaker' bees to find a new nest

Read more: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14858?DCMP=youtube Some objects in the distant ring of icy bodies called the Kuiper Belt are too small to observe by the sunlight they reflect. So astronomers are looking for their shadows. They monitor thousands of stars simultaneously in the hopes that one will be dimmed by the passing of an int...

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/ Netting wild bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, killing them, and then extracting otoliths from the inner ear to establish juvenile migration habits

See a fruit fly undergo a driving simulation, a car powered entirely by steam, and find out what makes birds sing faster.

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Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026765.900 Discover how the common fruit fly can control a laboratory robot at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Find out about a robotic dragonfly that could soon be sent to space, wasps that recognise recent acquaintances and a study that shows that babies may be less forgetful than we think.

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926752.700?DCMP=youtube Watch this slideshow narrated by photographer Tim Flach showing photos from his book Equus which will be published on October 1.

Scientists have discovered a gene responsible for a mysterious disease that causes Labrador retrievers to lose control of their hind legs when they run too hard.