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Mobile phones could soon be much less touchy-feely thanks to a new kind of 3D gesture-recognition technology that doesn't gobble up battery life    

Mood-emitting headphones, microwaving security tags, waterproof sandals, and more (full text available to subscribers)    

Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans    

An imaging technique that identifies chromosomal abnormalities in young embryos could dramatically increase the success rate of IVF    

A new delivery concept uses the location of random strangers to TwedEx parcels directly to you – wherever you are    

A strange kind of photography called ghost imaging has been extended to work in 3D, and may one day prove useful for medical or security scans    

It's what school children have been waiting for – stimulating the brain speeds up mental arithmetic and the results seem to last    

All the latest stories on newscientist.com: new US agony beam weapon, malarial mosquitoes sniff you out, Google and NASA go quantum, and more    

A smartphone, a biosensor and a screen make up the Inside-Out system, which allows you to analyse how you felt throughout the day    

The processes of memory formation and retrieval have been observed across the entire brain for the first time using transparent zebrafish    

New big-name clients for quantum-computer maker D-Wave may signal that their devices are going mainstream – but are they really that fast?    

The Arctic Council has admitted five Asian nations – most notably China – plus Italy as observers. What does this mean for the Arctic's future?    

A weapon that fires a beam hundreds of metres to induce unbearable pain is ready to be unleashed on the world – what should be done with it? (full text available to subscribers)    

It's a rarely seen phenomenon – high winds have blown ice floes ashore in Canada and the US on two consecutive days, destroying homes    

The concept of "natural" makes little sense in our ever-changing, human-dominated world    

The unexpected return of therapeutic cloning could reopen ethical arguments that seemed to have been laid to rest    

For the first time, scans are shown to be as good as post-mortem examinations – but only for fetuses and infants under 12 months    

The pioneering NASA mission has been hobbled by damaged hardware, probably ending its four-year search for Earth-sized worlds around sun-like stars    

Mosquitoes carrying dangerous falciparum malaria are three times as likely as uninfected ones to bite us – perhaps because they can sniff us out better    

Conservationists are launching a Red List of Ecosystems to assess the health of whole habitats. Here are six that have been studied so far