Extracts from the brains of locusts and cockroaches can kill superbugs such as MRSA ndash; new antibiotics could followimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d790ed4/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Locust+brains+could+thwart+superbug+plagueslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19404-locust-brains-could-thwart-superbug-plagues.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Locust+brains+could+thwart+superbug+plagueslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19404-locust-brains-could-thwart-superbug-plagues.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869789674/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/226037460/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869789674/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/226037460/a2.img" border="0"//a

Apple and Google promise the next revolution in digital entertainment ndash; instant access to a vast music library, straight from the cloudimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d78a06b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Tech+heavyweights+set+to+move+music+to+the+cloudlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727765.700-tech-heavyweights-set-to-move-music-to-the-cloud.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Tech+heavyweights+set+to+move+music+to+the+cloudlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727765.700-tech-heavyweights-set-to-move-music-to-the-cloud.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869784865/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/226009195/kg/68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869784865/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/226009195/kg/68/a2.img" border="0"//a

Cockroach and locust brains are a rich source of antibiotics powerful enough to tackle MRSA, researchers say.

How likely is it that you'll live to be 100 years old?

Future space probes that work in cooperative swarms must sacrifice themselves if they begin to fail and risk damaging their comrades, says NASAimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d77a7df/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Swarming+spacecraft+to+self-destruct+for+greater+goodlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19403-swarming-spacecraft-to-selfdestruct-for-greater-good.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Swarming+spacecraft+to+self-destruct+for+greater+goodlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19403-swarming-spacecraft-to-selfdestruct-for-greater-good.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869686643/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/225945567/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78869686643/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/225945567/a2.img" border="0"//a

The secrets behind some of the UK’s newest inventions

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Former UK Prime Minster Tony Blair warns world leaders they may pay a heavy price in history if they fail to tackle global warming.

A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.

A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts trying to launch a dummy 30km into the sky abort the mission when a valve on their rocket freezes up.

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The Hubble telescope re-images supernova first seen in 1987

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Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.

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Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.

New-born twin giant pandas made their first public appearance at a zoo in Japan on Friday in Shirahama.