The best of New Scientist‘s video coverage, including a tiny hovering robot, bionic penguins, software that can make home movies look professional, plasma ejections from the sun.
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Most popular articles of the year From space storms to vampires to porn, here’s a countdown of the year’s most-read articles. Warning: contains sex stories. A lot of them
Favourite picture galleries From carnivorous robots to exploding stars and bizarre medical devices, here are your favourites from the image galleries we posted this year
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The year in space Astronomers found water on the moon and saw the most distant object yet, but space radiation hit a record high and the Spirit rover struggled for life
Most popular space articles of the year Find out how to go to Mars in 39 days and see what it would look like to fall into a black hole
Most popular physics articles of the year These include an investigation into the best way to slice a pizza
Sex at the noughties’ end There was plenty to hold the attention of those with an academic interest in sexual attraction and reproduction
Digging up prehistoric monsters Dinosaur hunters and anyone with an interest in prehistoric creatures great and small were not disappointed
In sickness and in health It was a year as hopeful as it was scary, with a flu pandemic, genome hackers and fresh hopes for Alzheimer’s disease and HIV
It’s the environment, stupid Thoughts of climate change were never far away, but with ice on fire and a salamander uglier than ET, there was more to 2009 than political brouhaha
In green tech we must trust More brainpower than ever before has been expended on technologies to cut the damage we do to the environment – here are some of the most interesting
