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The debate over internet and phone surveillance should be conducted in the open, not the shadows    

High-tech collars fitted on wild cheetahs reveal what is really required to be a winner on the African savannah    

Shave off the very tip of your finger or toe and it should grow back. Now we know how. It's all got to do with some very special cells beneath your nails    

All the latest on newscientist.com: goodbye to Goldilocks, super-pests beating GM crops, US carbon emissions turn down, and more    

Images from a pinhead-sized sample of a glacier corpse's brain shows evidence of his final, deadly fight    

From life's point of view, Earth sits in the solar system's sweet spot. But new calculations suggest it is teetering on the brink of a solar roasting (full text available to subscribers)    

Five of 13 key agricultural pests can now eat crops genetically modified to poison them – but our fight-back plan is clear (full text available to subscribers)    

The latest figures on carbon dioxide emissions suggest US emissions are still falling, while China's emissions growth is also in decline    

The next generation of programming languages will put computation directly into the hands of people who can use it best (full text available to subscribers)    

A NASA spacecraft has spied a wandering boulder and the scar it left on a Martian slope, but it is a mystery what set the ball rolling    

All the latest on newscientist.com: a way out of binary babel, China's space ambitions, DNA art in trouble with the law, cod comeback, and more    

By tracing the interactions between genes linked to autism, researchers have built a network that lets them identify those most likely to cause the disorder    

If the trend continues, cod could qualify for a sustainability stamp of approval, says the Marine Stewardship Council    

Medics everywhere should be on the lookout for MERS, the deadly coronavirus that emerged in Saudi Arabia last year, says the WHO    

The glut of programming languages is leading to more intractable bugs, says Michael Brooks. Now there might be a way out (full text available to subscribers)    

In The Human Spark: The science of human development, psychologist Jerome Kagan examines what it is to be human – and draws controversial conclusions    

Elevators can now carry people to the top of a kilometre-high skyscraper in a single run thanks to UltraRope, a super-light carbon-fibre hoisting cable    

A series of smartphone-compatible, augmented reality books brings the solar system to life or conjures up roaring dinosaurs on the table in front of you    

The Kepler space telescope's search may be at an end, but Didier Queloz, who found the first world around a sunlike star, says more planet hunts are afoot    

The launch of China's Shenzhou-10 spacecraft will help astronauts prepare to construct and operate the nation's first space station by 2020