All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: why we should take control of statistics, an app for credit card theft, and proof that orang-utans can swim

Grigoriy Perelman has been recognised for solving the century-old Poincaré conjecture – but the real puzzle is whether he'll take the cash

Henry Schlesinger's enthralling The Battery tells the story of the modern world through the humble miracle of electricity in a handy package

In The Natural Navigator, Tristan Gooley – the only person to have flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic – tells us how to read natural signposts

A faint streak near Jupiter's moon Himalia may be a new ring formed by the material created by a smash between moons

We are finally pinning down how much differences in non-coding DNA, which doesn't produce proteins, shape our individual traits and disease risks

The spectacular imagery of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe has captured a series of unexplained phenomena on the ringed planet – see them here

They normally avoid water, so it was a surprise when orphan apes found all sorts of reasons to jump in – our gallery reveals what they get up to

The brain molecules behind a learning deficit that sets in during puberty have been identified in mice – and blocked

16 of the 25 sturgeon species are now critically endangered, including the much-prized Beluga sturgeon

Your brainwaves betray what you really think about brands and their products – and marketeers want to tune into them

A study of seafood recipes over 122 years has shown that the prestige of big, predatory fish has grown even as overfishing has slashed their numbers

A service industry for malware is making it possible for anyone with basic computer skills to launch state-of-the-art cyber-attacks

It's time to wrest control of statistics from the governments and corporations who pick up the tab, says Ludi Simpson

All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how machines could break down language barriers, the first natural event changed by global warming, and whether miaow-miaow should be banned

Males of some social insects carry on the fight for females after insemination: their seminal fluid harms sperm of other males, but not their own

An unprecedented effort to use world trade rules to save a species from rampant overfishing has failed, says Debora MacKenzie

A US proposal to outlaw trade in polar bear parts including paws, fur and teeth was voted down today at an international summit, says Andy Coghlan

The US and Russians still have their missiles on a hair trigger, putting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at risk