Today on New Scientist: 31 January 2012

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Fossil DNA has clues to surviving rapid climate change

In the last ice age, organisms adapted fast or died. The stunning find of epigenetic changes to DNA frozen in permafrost may help explain their trick

Lazy photon among the missing in exotic LHC roll call

String balls, leptoquarks and lazy photons have yet to put in an appearance at the LHC, the world's largest particle smasher

Herd of ivory elephants reveals illicit trade in Egypt

Ranks of ivory elephants in a Cairo shop show how the illegal tusk trade remains strong despite a 20-year ban

Look ma, no wings: Secret of great tit flight revealed

Watch a slow-mo movie that shows a bird folding its wings to take a turn

Self-portraits of a declining brain

An exhibition of artist William Utermohlen's works reveal how his art was influenced by his Alzheimer's disease

Pythons hunt Florida mammals to brink of extinction

In just 10 years, discarded and escaped pet pythons have almost wiped out many Everglades mammals, including bobcats and opossums

Virtual tailor's dummy makes designing clothes easy

Augmented reality could help make dressmaking far simpler by letting designers work with a virtual dummy first

Unite to fight bird flu

Now we know the true scale of the threat from H5N1 avian flu we should put the people who know how to stop it in charge, says Debora MacKenzie

Why you think your team is the best

You can't help being biased towards your favourite team since your brain perceives the actions of your own team as better than the those of a rival team

First recording of deep-water fish chat

Grunts, quacks and knocks may help fish communicate in an environment so murky that they cannot easily see their neighbours

Sex life of worm hides a protein with links to ALS

A protein that helps worm sperm to fertilise an egg may be related to a human protein that plays a role in inherited forms of ALS

Fish oil in pregnancy reduces infant eczema

Women with a family history of eczema may be able to avoid giving the condition to their children by taking fish oil during pregnancy

Capturing the heart of the disappearing Arctic

Photographer Ragnar Axelsson captures an austere waning world beautifully in his exhibition Last Days of the Arctic

AR goggles make crime scene investigation a desk job

Investigators could soon probe a crime scene for clues remotely, and help officers on site by interacting through an augmented reality system

Light test for laser-guided bullet

Bad aim? US government engineers have invented laser-guided bullets that could ensure you never miss a shot

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