Thursday, October 6, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 4 October 2011

Pirate politician: We want open, online government

An uberconnected world need a new politics, says Ben de Biel, spokesman for the Pirates party, who are making waves in Berlin, Germany

Scott's biographer: British polar hero was incompetent

Captain Scott was a morbid romantic, the victim of a tradition of heroic failure, says Roland Huntford - and Amundsen's diary makes much better reading

Time-lapse Tuesday: Bug sucks up worm's guts

Using its specialised mandible like a straw, this bug extracts a hornworm's insides while leaving its casing intact

Nanotubes help cloak objects in a mirage

Underwater cloaking devices could be a step closer thanks to heated sheets of carbon nanotubes that deflect light just like a mirage

Invisible gas glows in first image from radio array

The nascent ALMA radio telescope array sheds new light on the colliding Antennae Galaxies

Still-mysterious dark energy takes physics Nobel

Cosmologists who used exploding stars to deduce that the expansion of the universe is accelerating have won the physics prize

BigDog robot gets an even bigger brother

Robotics firm Boston Dynamics wowed crowds with the stout quadruped robot "AlphaDog", and the humanoid bot "PETMAN"

Infant anaesthesia link with learning difficulties

Only infants who underwent two or more procedures were at greater risk of learning problems later on

A post-fossil-fuel world

Starting with the premise that we'll eventually stop using fossil fuels, Robert Laughlin imagines the energy sources of tomorrow

A little excess weight affects IVF success

Having a BMI above the healthy weight range can increase the chances of miscarriage after fertility treatment

Pacific islands left thirsty by La Ni?a

The Pacific island nations of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared a state of emergency due to severe shortages of fresh water

Listening to the world's most ancient animals

An evening of multimedia music, inspired by the oldest known animal fossils, was informative and edifying, but sometimes a little flat

Real-life tennis video game puts you in control

A system known as Tennis Real Play lets gamers control video-based models of their favourite tennis stars

DNA doubts help clear Amanda Knox of murder

Forensic evidence used in 2009 to convict the former college student and her former boyfriend of a 2007 murder was "not reliable", a judge says

What do our mouths say about us?

The Wellcome Collection's celebration of the smacker bites of more than it can chew.

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