New Urbanist: Why your windowsill will need its own address
As we begin to share our cities with autonomous machines, street names and house numbers could soon be a thing of the past
Floods that hit New York City every 500 years now hit every 24
Storm surges as high as those that caused devastation during hurricane Sandy may now be over 20 times more common than before humans changed climate
Gel scaffold paves way for 3D printing of biological organs
A new way to support 3D-printed structures as they're being made is opening the door to creating delicate biological structures and eventually organs
Old Scientist: Challenging superstition, probing religion
New Scientist has often shone the torch of reason into the dark corners of belief, as a scan of our September archives shows
Rosettawatch: Onion layers prove 67P is a slow-mo comet mash-up
A geological survey of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has revealed its two halves have layers that don't line up, meaning they came together at a crawl
Salty water seen flowing on Mars, not far from Curiosity rover
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds strongest evidence yet that there is liquid water on the surface of the Red Planet, so there might also be life
World’s tiniest snail is so small that 10 fit in a needle’s eye
A microsnail discovered in southern China may have evolved its lack of size to avoid being eaten or to cut its reliance on scarce resources
VW emissions fraud tallies with Europe’s pollution overshoots
Nitrogen oxide pollution has been inexplicably high for years in Germany, France and other European states
Physics of falling says professional athletes are running wrong
Running isn't a series of jumps but a series of rotations – and making use of this could let athletes fall their way to new world records
Nitrogen oxides in car exhaust kill tens of thousands in UK
Evidence is mounting that NOx emissions don't just make us ill by boosting the production of ozone and tiny particles – they directly damage our health too
