Thursday, October 6, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 3 October 2011

Invisible gas glows in first image from radio array

Spectacular new images from the nascent ALMA radio telescope array reveal the universe in new wavelengths and unprecedented detail

One-Minute-Physics: How a particle can also be a wave

Watch an animation that explains a paradox central to quantum mechanics

Time for the hard questions

In About Time, astrophysicist Adam Frank makes the case that our concept of cosmic time is inextricably linked to our notions of human time

Inside of nose reveals time of death

Tiny finger-like projections lining the nose slowly stop beating hours after death, providing clues to when the person died

Death of winner throws medicine Nobel into confusion

Ralph Steinman died three days before announcement of medicine prize, but Nobels can be won only by the living

Data gold mine lifts veil on world of online poker

Software has provided a mass of statistics about online poker, one of the world's biggest draws, and could help pinpoint problem gamblers

Would-be geoengineers must listen to the public

It is no surprise that a proposed test of a climate engineering technology has raised hackles despite being environmentally benign, says Adam Corner

Quantum life: The weirdness inside us

Ideas from the stranger side of physics could explain some long-standing mysteries of biology. Michael Brooks investigates a controversial claim

Secrets of immunity earn medicine Nobel prizes

Discoverers of "front-line" defence systems and "learned" immunity share Nobel prize in physiology or medicine

Security flaw exposed in HTC Android smartphones

Malicious apps with access to the internet could steal personal data, such as your email address, location, history and call logs

Political backlash to geoengineering begins

Tough times are ahead for technologies to cool the climate now that the European Parliament has expressed its opposition in no uncertain terms

Metamorphosis: Guess what I'll be when I grow up

Photos reveal the surprising transformation that many species undergo as they grow - can you spot the adult inside the youngster?

Astrophile: Giant star comes with ancient tree rings

Reading the expanding dust shells produced by a nearby red giant prophesies a surprisingly active future for our own sun

Feedback: Ig Nobel prize awards 2011

The Ig Nobels honoured real research on contagious yawning in tortoises, the nature of procrastination and the mathematical risks of prophecies of doom

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