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New Scientist is a weekly international science magazine covering recent developments in science and technology for a general English-speaking audience. As well as covering current events and news from the scientific community, the magazine often features speculative articles, ranging from the philosophical to the technical. It is not a peer-reviewed scientific journal, but it is widely read by both nonscientists and scientists as a way of keeping track of developments outside their own fields of study or areas of interest. Many science articles in the general press are based on its ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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We no longer fully understand the web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behaviour. Paul Marks asked him what he hopes to achieve.Posted by Fabrice Florin -
How to survive the coming century
ALLIGATORS basking off the English coast; a vast Brazilian desert; the mythical lost cities of Saigon, New Orleans, Venice and Mumbai; and 90 per cent of humanity vanished. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
First vertebrate eye to use mirror instead of lens
The deep sea is full of surprises, and the four-eyed spookfish is up there with the best of them. It is the first vertebrate found with eyes that use mirrors, rather than a ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Ten ways to save the world
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, a new book by businessman and climate-change commentator Chris Goodall, says climate change can be overcome if we adopt the following ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Greenland ice lakes drain at speed of Niagara Falls
The worry has been that with further global warming such meltwater would increase and have a catastrophic effect on the ice sheet, lubricating its base and making it slide ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Nerve-tapping neckband allows 'telepathic' chat
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a ...Posted by Tish Grier -
Zooplankton move to the moon's tune
How do ocean animals that live below the depth to which moonlight penetrates migrate in phase with the moon? Hans van Haren of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Climate change sceptics criticise polar bear science
Soon, who receives funding for this and other work from Exxon-Mobil, has been attacking climate change science for several years. Three of the six other authors also have ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Astronomers look to quark stars for a fifth dimension
If the universe has weird extra-spatial dimensions in parallel to the 3D world we see around us, then billion-dollar particle accelerators may not be the only place to find ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Ice ages dried up African monsoons
It has long been suspected that there is a connection between the west African monsoon and climate at higher latitudes - especially over geological timescales, says David Lea ...Posted by Leo Romero
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Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting
Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commutingPosted by William Hughes-Games -
Beyond GDP: We need a dashboard for the whole economy
From stock markets to measuring GDP, conventional economics is in a mess.Posted by William Hughes-Games -
World will 'cool for the next decade' - 09 September 2009
People will say this is global warming disappearingPosted by William Hughes-Games -
A storage bank for wind power - environment - 12 January 2007
Wind farms all to often face a mismatch between the supply of wind and the demand for powerPosted by William Hughes-Games -
Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains
Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are. As brain shrinkage is linked to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Fast-spinning black holes might reveal all
It is the ultimate cosmic villain: space and time come to an abrupt end in its presence and the laws of physics break down. Now it seems a "naked" black hole may yet emerge in ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Green and mean: The downside of clean energy
Has environmentalism been hijacked by big construction companies? Or do we simply have to learn that even environmental energy comes at an environmental cost?Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south ...Posted by Mike LaBonte -
Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion
Twenty years to the day that two electrochemists ignited controversy by announcing signs of cold fusion at an infamous press conference in Utah (watch a video of the 1989 ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Children come with a high carbon cost
With rising future emissions, each extra child in the US would eventually result in eight times the lifetime carbon footprint of the average US resident today. Even with ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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