Today on New Scientist: 6 January 2012

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Look into the eyes of a rare ancient African sculpture

Excavated from a village in Nigeria, a 2000-year old terracotta head from the Nok culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of clay art ever discovered

Cognitive decline sets in as early as 45

A study of people aged between 45 and 70 showed that even the youngest experienced some cognitive decline over 10 years

Doctor linking MMR vaccine and autism sues critics

Andrew Wakefield challenges claims that he fraudulently falsified medical data to fix the case against vaccine

Friday Illusion: 'Magic carp-pet' makes fish swim

Watch carp navigate illusive waters in this moir? effect coffee table

Air battery to let electric cars outlast gas guzzlers

A new battery formula could give electric cars an 800-kilometre range - putting them on a par with conventional vehicles

Kopimism: the world's newest religion explained

Isak Gerson is spiritual leader of Kopimism, devoted to file-sharing. We asked him to explain the religion - and if Julian Assange is a high priest

Symantec confirms antivirus source code hack

An Indian hacking group has gained access to the code behind a version of the company's Norton Antivirus software

Could you make it past Google's gatekeepers?

WIlliam Poundstone tours through the tough questions posed by the internet's most desirable giant, and how to answer them

Thinnest silicon-chip wires refuse to go quantum

The finding is good news for conventional computer chips - but might be a problem for quantum computers

Science needs a universal symbol

In the face of irrational opposition, it's time for the scientific community to have its own bumper sticker, says Paul Root Wolpe

Higgs result means elegant universe is back in vogue

Recent hints of the Higgs boson help explain why we have not seen evidence of supersymmetry yet - and point to fresh ways to focus the search

Exhaustive search solves fiendish Sudoku mystery

Mathematicians have completed a gruelling search that proves the number of starting clues Sudoku puzzles must have in order to be valid

Zoologger: Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip

Boys will be boys... or girls, if it's convenient. From female to male and back again, gender bending means dwarf hawkfish can find a mate in any situation

Astrophile: Cool echoes from galaxy's biggest star

Echoes of a stellar blast in the 19th-century skies are providing clues to the explosive future of Eta Carinae and other colossal stars

The hard way: Our odd desire to do it ourselves

From self-assembly furniture to cake mix, we value the things we make ourselves - however badly we do it

Chimps learn about nature's medicine chest from elders

Senior chimpanzees appear to show the young 'uns how to recognise plants with medicinal properties - but the finding is controversial

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