Saturday, October 13, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 12 October 2012

Threatwatch: Can we really spot covert nuclear tests?

Conflicting evidence of North Korean activity in 2010 forces us to ask if monitoring systems are good enough to make a test-ban treaty enforceable

First cloud operating system could lighten your laptop

An operating system that runs fully in the cloud could bring in a new era of super-adaptable "dumb terminals"

Astrophile: First puffy, 'warm Jupiter' spotted

The slowly evaporating planet 55 Cancri b could help explain why some worlds have atmospheres while others don't

UK badger cull tentatively supported by science

Within days sharpshooters will begin killing badgers in a bid to stop them infecting cows with TB - the science justifying it doesn't convince everyone

Tiny crystal flower blooms in a furnace

A rose-like nanostructure holds the promise of increased capacity in next-generation energy storage

Feedback: Psychics succumb to the unforeseen

Weather eye on cloud computing, free will for free, exploding colons, and more

Diagnosing death in famous writers

Starting with syphilitic Shakespeare, John Ross tours the demises of literary great minds in Orwell's Cough PLUS ethics of synthetic life and updating Aristotle

Friday Illusion: Sneaky snake seems to slither

See a new illusion where changes in brightness create phantom motion

Satellite broadband gets millions more Africans online

The launch of a new satellite will provide broadband access for millions in Africa, without having to rely on fault-prone undersea cables

Rationality's Rottweiler sinks his teeth in big pharma

The scourge of bad science is at it again. This time Ben Goldacre has got the powerful pharmaceutical industry in his sights. And he's very angry

Fruit flies' eyes shrink a little to see

Light detection turns out to involve certain cells contracting - and other sensory systems might use the same trick

Cellphones track how malaria spreads in Kenya

The phones of 15 million Kenyans have revealed how human travellers spread the disease to areas with fewer infected mosquitoes

Black glass holds first Mars soil sample on Earth

Chemical traces in a meteorite that recently struck the Moroccan desert offer an unprecedented glimpse of Mars's surface

SpaceX satellite loss is a warning for ride sharers

"Buyer beware" applies even in space, if you're trying to cut costs with a secondary payload launch for your satellite

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