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Algae's solar electrons hijacked to steal power

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Colin Barras - Mar. 17 (News Report) - An international gang of biologists has carried out an audacious heist, stealing valuable electrons from photosynthesising algae.

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The US is lagging on nuclear reactor technology

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Phil McKenna - Mar. 04 (Special Report) - IT SEEMS obvious: if you're planning a new generation of nuclear power stations, you should invest in the most advanced and efficient designs available. Yet that's not what seems to be happening in the US. The first new nuclear power plants on American soil for 30 years could soon be under construction. President Barack Obama has promised tens of billions of dollars in loan guarantees for reactor builders, of which $8.3 billion was last month committed to back the construction of two Westinghouse AP1000 light water reactors.

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Genetic code 2.0: Life gets a new operating system

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Linda Geddes - Feb. 16 (News Report) - A new way of using the genetic code has been created, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world. The breakthrough could eventually lead to the creation of new or "improved" life forms incorporating these new materials into their tissue.

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Lost leviathans: Hunting the world's missing whales

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - Feb. 09 (Special Report) - THEY are enigmatic sea monsters - rare, magnificent beasts patrolling the ocean depths. Yet old chronicles tell of populations of whales hundreds of times greater than today. Such tales have long been dismissed as exaggerations, but could they be true? Have humans killed such a staggering number of whales?

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Dirty babies get healthier hearts

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Debora MacKenzie - Dec. 10 (News Report) - AFFLUENT, modern babies live in a sanitised world. This has already been blamed for a high incidence of asthma and allergies, but might also up the risk of developing a host of other conditions common in rich countries, such as stroke and heart disease.

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Climate control for your desk

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Mason Inman - Dec. 09 (News Report) - WE'RE used to taking command of our personal climate in planes and cars by using simple controls. Why not in buildings too? A study of the effect of installing individual air-conditioning vents at office desks, and putting controls at each worker's fingertips, suggests it can cut a building's energy use in half.

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Darwin's masterpiece revisited - 11 November 2009

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Steve Jones - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Unique among scientific theories, evolutionary biology finds its roots in a popular book by a single author.

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Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Kate Ravillious - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Just months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by and ice age

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Instant Expert: The Copenhagen climate change summit - 04 November 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Catherine Brahic, Fred Pearce - Nov. 16 (Special Report) - Can it [Copenhagen Summit} really save us from climate catastrophe

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Clearing oasis trees felled ancient Peru civilisation - 04 November 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By andy Coghlan - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - [The Nasca] may have brought about their own demise by cutting down trees.

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'Right to dry' could wean Americans off consumption - opinion - 29 October 2009

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Alexander,Lee - Nov. 14 (Editorial) - It is time to put an end to crazy lows that mean millions of Americans use energy hungry tumble dryers rather than a clothes line.

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Eternal sunshine of the unconscious mind

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Amanda Gefter - Nov. 12 (News Report) - On Saturday, at New York City's Rubin Museum, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (who wrote Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation) and Jungian psychoanalyst John Beebe took the stage and were handed an image that neither had seen before. It depicted a figure of a man with a ray of light flowing into (or out of) his chest, and a snake, its head reared, coiled around his feet.

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Climate change sceptics lose vital argument - 29 November 2006

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Zeeya Merali - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - As the little ice age was a regional effect, it would not show up on a global temperature record like the hockey stick graph

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Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart - life - 02 November 2009

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Michael Bond - Nov. 09 (Editorial) - Having a high IQ doesn't necessarily mean you're smart.

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Post-human Earth: How the planet will recover from us - environment - 30 September 2009

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Bob Holmes - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - Would the post human earth resimble these mud pools in Iceland

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No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world - environment - 30 September 2009

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Scientist - By Shanta Barley - Nov. 08 (Special Report) - Temperature rises caused by greenhouse gas emissions are expected to trigger dangerous feedback loops

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Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Tom Simonite - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - Clever 'chopped' cars promise cheap electric commuting

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Beyond GDP: We need a dashboard for the whole economy

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - Oct. 21 (Editorial) - From stock markets to measuring GDP, conventional economics is in a mess.

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World will 'cool for the next decade' - 09 September 2009

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Fred Pearce - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - People will say this is global warming disappearing

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A storage bank for wind power - environment - 12 January 2007

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Tim Thwaites - Oct. 10 (Special Report) - Wind farms all to often face a mismatch between the supply of wind and the demand for power

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Nora Schultz - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - 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 dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.

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Fast-spinning black holes might reveal all

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Marcus Chown - Aug. 09 (News Report) - 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 our universe, after spinning away its event horizon. In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose postulated that every singularity, or black hole, must be shrouded by an event horizon from which nothing, including light, can escape. His Cosmic Censorship Conjecture has it that singularities are always hidden.

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We no longer fully understand the web

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Marks - Jun. 05 (Interview) - 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.

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Green and mean: The downside of clean energy

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Fred Pearce - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - Has environmentalism been hijacked by big construction companies? Or do we simply have to learn that even environmental energy comes at an environmental cost?

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Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Michael Brooks - Mar. 23 (Special Report) - 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 but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

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