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Just what we need: sarcasm software
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 21:22)
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Software that has been taught how to detect sarcasm could track public feeling about brands
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Dementia: Sing me the news, and I'll remember it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 20:54)
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Teaching people with dementia new information by singing might enable them to live independently for a bit longer
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Saving the world, one hit point at a time
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 19:30)
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Half a billion dedicated gamers. Games where they battle poverty, war and disease. Epic win
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Crystal balls reveal how the brain recalls the past
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 19:13)
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Pattern Completion is an artwork inspired by the brain's elegant mechanism for remembering. Does the art live up to the science, asks Julian Richards
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Green machine: Hitting the lights in wasteful offices
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 18:26)
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Smarter office lighting could be an easy win for energy-cutting initiatives
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Darwinian spacecraft engine to last twice as long
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 4:00)
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Ion engines could reach even further into space, as engineers use a genetic algorithm to suggest a grid design that could double lifetime expectancy
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The wisdom of herds: How social mood moves the world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 2:30)
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Why do share prices, skirt lengths, even the state of the European Union, fluctuate so wildly? It's down to social mood, says John Casti , and we must heed its messages
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Banned: doctor who linked MMR vaccine with autism
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 2:18)
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The UK medical regulator has found Andrew Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct, and ruled that he should be banned from practising
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Today on New Scientist: 24 May 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: why ice ages don't last forever, a meeting of mathemagical tricksters, and "human Lego"
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Sound-blasting chips for on-the-spot forensics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-25 1:55)
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Using sound to manipulate fluid samples in a "lab-on-a-chip" has brought the dream of rapid chemical analysis and disease diagnosis closer to reality
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