Sunday, October 28, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 26 October 2012

A map of London painted in Twitter languages

Twitter has its own ?#language, but this map shows that in the home of the Queen's English, the Twittersphere is a polyglot place

SpaceX poised to bring back blood and cucumber plants

When a commercial capsule splashes into the Pacific on Sunday, it will restore the capability to bring experiments back to Earth

Zoologger: Humble bee nests in horse dung

Newly discovered in Argentina, the bee Trichothurgus bolithophilus makes its home in networks of tunnels dug into dried-out manure

DARPA throws down gauntlet to human-style robots

DARPA's newest challenge tasks researchers with building human-acting robots than can perform a range of "practically impossible" tasks

Autonomous robot swarm takes over farm work

Watch how a team of robots can work together to plant seeds, eventually taking over all farm labour

Cosmic-ray test sparks new interest in Matrix reality

The idea that we live in a computer simulation is intriguing but fans of The Matrix might have to wait a little longer before they can unleash their inner Neo

50 years of Revolutions: A classic revisited

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions challenged cherished notions of logical progress. Philosopher Ian Hacking examines the book's legacy

The upsides of being a psychopath

In The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Kevin Dutton makes the case that psychopathy has its advantages PLUS: How almanacs brought mathematics to the people

Science and religion do not have to be at loggerheads

It's time that scientists learned to talk amicably to faith groups about research on the origins of the universe, argues Michael Brooks

Dinosaurs help dispel male existential fears

The sex-determination system of the dinosaurs has persisted into modern birds - good news for men worried about their small Y chromosome disappearing

Need a hand? Wearable robot arms give you two

An intelligent extra set of arms made from flexible materials help their wearer perform those tricky DIY tasks

'Zombie' planet: Weird world may be back from the dead

Seemingly killed by doubt over its existence, the exoplanet Fomalhaut b could be revived as a world shrouded in murky dust

Tropical plankton exodus by 2100

One-third of phytoplankton species could be driven out of warming tropics by the end of the century, transforming ecosystems and threatening fisheries

Dinosaurs may have evolved feathers for courtship

Fossils of ostrich-like dinosaurs hint that vaned feathers, like those that birds use to fly, evolved for courtship in beasts that never got airborne

Radiation still high in Fukushima fish

With radiation levels in fish around Fukushima not dropping as expected, scientists are seeking an explanation

Are high-caffeine energy drinks dangerous?

Following deaths with alleged links to energy drinks, New Scientist looks in detail at these caffeinated "dietary supplements"

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