Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 26 September 2012

Zoologger: Spiny mice save their skin by shedding it

Some lizards give predators the slip by shedding their tail, for example, but among mammals, only spiny mice have a similar strategy

Solar maximum? Oh, you just missed it

The sun reached peak activity in its northern hemisphere in 2011 it seems, with the southern half lagging behind - it may signal the coming of an extended quiet phase

Earth cracking up under Indian Ocean

The whole world shuddered in April this year as Earth's crust began the difficult process of breaking a tectonic plate

Ageing cells offer new target for Alzheimer's therapy

Brain cells that turn toxic in old age and release damaging proteins are linked to the accumulation of plaques in Alzheimer's disease

Tiny seahorse spotted in underwater Google Street View

This pygmy seahorse was confirmed in Australian waters for the first time during the underwater Catlin Seaview Survey, which is mapping the world's reefs

Europeans did not inherit pale skins from Neanderthals

Modern humans in Europe became pale-skinned too recently to have gained the trait by interbreeding with Neanderthals

Thermoelectric efficiency boost is good news for solar

A way of bumping up the efficiency of thermoelectric materials has tantalising implications for the efficiency of solar panels

Bionic legs could soon be controlled by thoughts alone

Watch a robotic exoskeleton that could make wheelchairs obsolete during a recent demonstration

Russian chemist faces trial over expert testimony

Olga Zelenina has been released from prison for now, but will still be put on trial for "doing her job" as an expert witness in drug trafficking case

Is hearing more important than seeing?

In The Universal Sense, Seth Horowitz makes a compelling case for our most underrated sense, hearing

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes slip through the net

Bed nets have helped to reduce malaria cases in Africa - but the pathogen-carrying mosquitoes are changing their behaviour, putting people at risk

Handle the truth: Navigating knowledge in the web age

Insights, tools and ideas that could help reveal what to believe and what to disregard in the modern information ecosystem, ranging from politics to science

Warmonger or idealist: the roots of human conflict

Homo sapiens is not a particularly violent species - we just have more worth fighting for than other animals

Climate change already harming the global economy

The world's failure to tackle climate change is costing 1 per cent of global GDP every year, boosting the case for urgent action on emissions

Vampire squid from hell eats faeces to survive depths

By eating dead animals and other waste, vampire squid can live in parts of the ocean too toxic for most predators

Newly spotted comet may outshine the full moon

Fresh from the icy reservoir called the Oort cloud, comet ISON could be on track to skim the sun and become spectacularly bright next November

Mimicry beats consciousness in gaming's Turing test

Two video-gaming software bots have managed to convince human judges that they are human too - mainly by copying how we act

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