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Colliding rocks and curious comets: The week in space

In the past week, a small space rock hit Earth and astronomers released images of a mysterious comet and seasons on Uranus

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15.10.2008 21:51:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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Dwarf planet's body parts litter outer solar system

The icy world Haumea has led a violent life its body parts keep turning up in the distant Kuiper belt

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15.10.2008 20:23:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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'Missing link' fossil stuck its neck out

The transitional fossil, Tiktaalik, that bridges the gap between swimming fish and four-legged land-dwelling animals could lift its head and peer around

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15.10.2008 19:00:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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Roving brain electrodes reverse paralysis in monkeys

The success gives hope that electrodes that seek out nerve cells in the brain could let humans control their limbs again following spinal injuries

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15.10.2008 19:00:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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Fish out of water: Tiktaalik could survey the land

Another part of the fossilised creature that captures the evolutionary time when fish first left the sea has been uncovered

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15.10.2008 19:00:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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Man 'roused from coma' by a magnetic field

Treating the brain with rapidly changing magnetic fields has helped a man in a coma-like state to communicate

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15.10.2008 19:00:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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American icons aren't the animals they used to be

Do hybrid wolf-coyotes, grizzly-polar bears and cattle-bison deserve protection - and are we to blame for their existence?

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15.10.2008 18:20:00 - New Scientist - Latest Headlines

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Network attack inspires space junk clean-up

Thinking about space junk in an entirely new way may have given space engineers the crucial insight they need to tackle the problem (full text available to subscribers)