New Scientist

◆ It takes 30 seconds for your fingerprint to grip your smartphone

◆ Meet the team who ‘woke' a man from 15 years in vegetative state

◆ Electric zap ‘wakes' man after 15 years in a vegetative state

◆ What a surprise – the end of the world has been delayed, again

◆ Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth's plate tectonics

◆ Health body warns many UK areas have high Lyme disease risk

◆ The nuclear stalemate is crumbling – what are our options?

◆ Alligators versus sharks: Who wins this ultimate showdown?

◆ AI could put a stop to electricity theft and meter misreadings

◆ This AI reads the news to keep tabs on US police shootings

◆ Two-colour pixels let you draw pair of images in the same space

◆ OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid

◆ Plan to save Great Barrier Reef from encroaching farm pollution

◆ New Zealand's iconic kiwi birds may be losing their sight

◆ Uber loses its licence to operate in London

◆ Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life

◆ Far-off galaxies are firing rare high-energy cosmic rays at us

◆ There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time

◆ Star nicknamed Kronos after eating its own planetary children

◆ Why court ruling on ending life support is the right decision

◆ Using new study to back high-fat, low-carb diets is flawed logic

◆ Even jellyfish get sluggish if they don't have enough sleep

◆ Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm

◆ Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

◆ Dinosaurs that seemed veggie also ate the odd bit of shellfish

◆ Another lost tribe feared massacred – how can we save the rest?

◆ Hurricane Maria confirms dire warnings for 2017 hurricane season

◆ Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker

◆ Handheld scanner divines how nutritious your food really is

◆ Why has a UK team genetically edited human embryos?

Scientific American

◆ Kids Who See Hollywood Gunplay More Likely to Pull the Trigger

◆ Brain Stimulation Partly Awakens Patient after 15 Years in Vegetative State

◆ Predictions for the 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize

◆ Will North Korea Sell Its Nuclear Technology?

◆ Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!

◆ A New Push for the Male "Pill"

◆ Trump Administration May Soon Ax Obama's Big Climate Rule

◆ Disaster Geology: A Tale of 2 Mexican Earthquakes

◆ There Is No One Way to Live a Good Life

◆ This Frog Can't Hear Its Own Calls

◆ A Little Giant

◆ Chasing the Flame: Does Media Coverage of Wildfires Probe Deeply Enough?

◆ The GLOBE Program: Making the Case for K–12 Citizen Scientists

◆ Moldy Rock Pulled from 2,500 Feet Underground

◆ The Fourth TetZooCon

◆ When Should You Have Your Prostate Checked?

◆ Fossilized Poo Reveals Vegetarian Dinosaurs Had a Taste for Crabs

◆ Building a Better Mirror for Telescopes

◆ High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come from Outside Our Galaxy

◆ Cities and States Are Picking Up Trump's Slack on Climate

◆ Arecibo Observatory Closed by Hurricane Maria

◆ To Advance Medicine's Future, NIH Tries to Win the Trust of Mistreated Communities

◆ Jellyfish Caught Snoozing Give Clues to Origin of Sleep

◆ Scientists Closing in on the Dawn of Plate Tectonics

◆ Didn't Scientists Already Know Where Cosmic Rays Come from?

BBC Science/Nature

◆ Botanic gardens 'best hope' for saving endangered plants

◆ Australia joins UK space radar mission

◆ Panda's habitat 'shrinking and becoming more fragmented'

◆ Big Antarctic iceberg edges out to sea

◆ Australia to create national space agency

◆ Scottish Power says UK will need to boost capacity

◆ Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly'

◆ Plant-eating dinosaurs 'strayed from veggie diet'

◆ Birds 'churring' is a sign isles' shipwreck rats dying out

◆ New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

◆ Ancient DNA sheds light on African history

◆ UK strikes research deal with US in run-up to Brexit

◆ Owls hold secret to ageless ears

◆ UK scientists edit DNA of human embryos

◆ Neolithic Orkney rivalries detailed in new study

◆ Paris climate aim 'still achievable'

◆ Size matters when it comes to extinction risk

◆ Rhino horn smuggled as jewellery

◆ Snow leopard no longer 'endangered'

◆ Paris climate deal: US denies it will stay in accord

◆ Cassini: Probe incinerates on entry to Saturn

◆ Why are there so many berries this year?

◆ Belfast scientists design flexible organic battery

◆ Badger culling gets go-ahead in 11 new areas of England

◆ Man-of-war spotted along coast in Cornwall and Wales

◆ Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'

◆ Satellites the size of a shoebox

◆ Is Bali volcano about to erupt?

◆ The winners of 2017's Insight Astronomy Photographer award

◆ 'I fell from the top of the jungle to save an eagle'

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