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Green machine: Aircon that doesn't warm the planet
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 18:50)
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The refrigerants and power used in air conditioning add a lot to greenhouse gas emissions. Alternative technologies could offer us all a cooler future
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Ageing spacecraft makes best-ever map of Mars
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 6:22)
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The images come from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, which is set to smash the longevity record for a Martian probe
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What comes after the Large Hadron Collider?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 2:25)
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Physicists will soon have to decide what kind of particle smasher they want built after the LHC? they discussed it at a major conference today
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Today on New Scientist: 26 July 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the great social network experiment, sneaky dogs that steal food and belly-flopping frogs
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Hire out your spare brainpower, says internet optimist
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 1:40)
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If you spend your time online rather than watching TV, your grey matter can make the world a better place, says Clay Shirky
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Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 1:36)
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Spend enough time with your eyes glued to a microscope and you will see some beautiful structure, cell or circuit? here are a few of our favourites
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Perfecting synthetic sounds for animated worlds
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 23:34)
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Computers make marvellous animations, but someone still has to record the sound effects. When software be able to handle that job too?
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All power to the wind - it cuts your electricity bills
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 22:22)
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Why is wind power derided as subsidised, inefficient and uncompetitive when the opposite is true, ask Jérôme Guillet and John Evans
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Bellyflopping frogs shed light on evolution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 19:53)
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Looks like frogs learned to leap before mastering landing, according to a video study of jumping frogs
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We humans can mind-meld too
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 19:42)
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There's now scientific backing– in the form of brain scans– for the old adage that when two people‘click' in conversation, they have a meeting of minds
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