Roger Lewin

Life

The great brain race

Focus: How to destroy the doomsday asteroid - An asteroid collision that wipes out the human race sounds like science fiction. But in the US the threat is being taken very seriously

Making maths make money: Will analytical models of complex systems in nature also predict the movements of financial markets? Mathematicians in the US are hoping to get rich while they find out

Focus: Living in a bubble

Pressure to publish leads to increase in fraud

Science: Kenyan fossil from skull of oldest human

Life and death in a digital world: No one can turn back the evolutionary clock, but we can follow the fate of a rich menagerie of artificial organisms as they evolve in a model world

Of mice and men . . . and rabbits: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New Scientist were there

What monkeys chew to choose their children's sex: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New Scientist were there

Mitochondria tell the tale of migrations to America: Chicago, the city of gangsters, played host to the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. Reporters from New Scientist were there

Blood on stone opens doors to human origins: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names

DNA sequencing poised to go private