All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Alzheimer's clue homes in on musical memory, Ars Electronica, and bird flu
Meat without slaughter
Who needs animals when you can grow burgers and sausages from scratch and do your bit for the environment too
Antibiotic resistance predates drugs - by 30,000 years
A study of ancient bacteria preserved in Canadian permafrost confirms that antibiotic resistance genes have an ancient history
How to heal your body with your mind
Watch our animated explainer to find out how our mind can affect our body
Heal thyself: Know your purpose
In a study of 50 people with advanced lung cancer, those judged to have high "spiritual faith" responded better to chemotherapy and survived longer
CultureLab goes to Ars Electronica
CultureLab heads to Austria to report back from Ars Electronica, a festival of science, art and culture
Alzheimer's clue homes in on musical memory
Could changes in a brain region above the right ear explain why people with Alzheimer's can remember tunes, while those with semantic dementia cannot?
Olympic sculpture is a marvel of mathematics
The ArcelorMittal Orbit design by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond is an innovative fusion of engineering and sculpture for the 2012 Olympic games
Heal thyself: Self-hypnosis
Hypnosis may help pain management, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, obesity and asthma, not to mention some nasty skin conditions
A human enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo
In Enclosure 99 Humans at the Edinburgh Zoo, choreographer Janis Claxton challenges visitors to have a closer look at performers - and themselves
Bird flu flies back into the news
A strain of H5N1 virus circulating for several years is now dominant in Asian birds. Well adapted to migratory species, it could now spread widely
Hyperion: the largest bath sponge in the solar system
Saturn's Hyperion moon posed for photos as the Cassini spacecraft zoomed by for the second closest pass in its history
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