Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 3 April 2012

Physicists must get used to the limelight

The flap over faster-than-light neutrinos will be the first of many

Gut-on-a-chip takes bellyache out of digestion studies

Now that our gut has been recreated on a microchip, the days of trying to reproduce its complexity in a Petri dish should be over

World's toughest bugs survive electron beam and vacuum

These ticks have become the first organisms to be observed alive in a scanning electron microscope and survive the experience

Climate migration is a solution, not desperation

Rather than being the final resort, migration is a key tactic in the human response to climate change, argues a leading geographer

Explosion simulates mysterious Buncefield blast

Watch how trees could have been to blame for the UK's biggest ever peacetime explosion

Photon sieves make super-cheap space telescopes

A plastic sheet called a "photon sieve" focuses incoming light, providing a quick, cheap way to replace damaged space telescopes

A Wikipedia for life's meaningful moments

A new website, Cowbird, wants to get everyone telling personal stories online, building a creative archive of human experience

Would you pay to block your own internet connection?

Researcher Fred Stutzman has come up with apps to keep your mind on work and off the temptations of the web and social media

Orca invasion: Killer whales in a warmer world

As the sea ice recedes in Hudson Bay, killer whales are moving in for a feast. Are they eating the Inuit people's lunch?

'Smart sand' builds copies of objects

Stick an object inside a grid of these little electronic cubes, and they automatically create a copy

Ash traces hint at cave cuisine 1 million years ago

The record of our ancestors' earliest fires has been pushed back, reigniting the debate over whether human anatomy was changed by cooking

Variety, not viral spread, is key to Facebook growth

New recruits are more likely to become active users if their Facebook contacts come from several distinct social groups

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