Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 9 October 2012

A way to assess the carbon emissions of your building

Computer program can now map CO2 emissions from homes, offices and roads

Smartphone app controls everything in your smart home

A new smartphone app lets you control every gadget in your smart home, from TV to thermostat

Manipulators of quantum world win physics Nobel

Haroche and Wineland found ways to handle quantum objects without destroying them, paving the way for today's atomic clocks and quantum computing

Meningitis outbreak sparks call for regulation

How was the pharmacy that distributed a fungus-contaminated steroid allowed to engage in large-scale manufacture of prescription drugs?

Spider and prey frozen in Cretaceous action shot

The man who inspired Jurassic Park has now given us a 100-million-year-old amber fossil with a freeze-frame surprise inside: a spider poised to attack a wasp

Live: Baumgartner attempts supersonic space jump

Felix Baumgartner should break the sound barrier when he jumps from his balloon at an altitude of 36 kilometres

Super-sponge polymer turns oil spill into floating gel

Watch how a novel approach to oil clean-up can quickly transform a slick into a gel that will later give up the oil on land

Nature beyond our wildest imaginings

Before Darwin, the study of animals was dominated by imagination and morality. Genetic engineering makes that true once more, argues Caspar Henderson

European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster

Most of Europe's nuclear reactors lack the means to handle a major event such as an earthquake or flood

Mayor of a wild domain devoted to science

Biologist and philanthropist Eric Peterson explains why the best way to do coherent, long-term research was to create his own institute on a Canadian island

Memory: Do animals ever forget?

From pigeons that can recognise faces to a chimp that stores rocks to throw at visitors, all animals have memories. But how similar are they to ours?

Medicine Nobel: good choice, but will cures come soon?

The prize is well-deserved, biologists agree, but one winner is worried about what comes next

Gesture-sensing interfaces to rival keyboards and mice

Soon you could be controlling your computer via gesture-reading command bracelets and desktop devices

Recession pushes US birth rates to an all-time low

Fertility rates in the US have been falling since the downturn started, but still aren't as low as Europe's

SpaceX gets serious with first crucial supply mission

The SpaceX-owned Dragon space capsule will be the first US craft to send critical supplies to the International Space Station since the shuttle

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