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Hand-held sniffer picks out grave sites
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 20:35)
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Chemicals emitted by decaying corpses offer investigators a rapid, on-the-spot way to uncover clandestine graves
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Misconduct found in Harvard animal morality prof's lab
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 20:21)
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Paper on primate cognition retracted as prominent researcher Marc Hauser takes leave of absence; primatologists call for more details
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Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life's history
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 18:18)
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Oxygen is supposed to have driven the evolution of complex life? but the discovery of animals that thrive without it tells a different story
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Play-acting orang-utans signal their desires
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 8:00)
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Orang-utans have been caught on camera acting out their intentions and desires, proving humans aren't alone in being able to do this
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NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 7:40)
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Agency engineers suggest detaching one of the station's current crew compartments and using it to ferry astronauts to an asteroid by 2025
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MRI scans could diagnose autism
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 6:00)
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Key anatomical differences in autistic brains have been used to train software to distinguish them from those of people without the condition
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Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 2:16)
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A holding pattern in the jet stream means weather systems stick around with violent consequences
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Today on New Scientist: 10 August 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: bad news for computing, why we should use biochar, and how to hide files in Flickr pictures
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Computer gamers crack protein-folding puzzle
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 1:18)
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Players of the online game Foldit have beaten dedicated software and human experts in working out the shape that will be adopted by novel proteins
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Green machine: Don't burn plant waste, bury it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 0:00)
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Converting plant waste to biochar leads to bigger cuts in carbon emissions than turning it into biofuels– and brings other benefits too
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