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Today on New Scientist: 22 March 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: where consciousness comes from, how to upgrade fingerprint evidence, and the solar system's resident glutton
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Bee hotel trains residents as bomb sniffers
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 2:56)
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The device conditions bees to respond to certain odours, which could make them as effective as sniffer dogs
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US space companies present Soyuz-busting price plans
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 2:21)
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Some call for subsidy, but others promise to undercut the Russian ticket for rides into space
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Dotty sensor sees in glorious technicolour
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 1:36)
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Quantum dots could provide a richer colour alternative to traditional image sensing technology
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The universe is a quantum computer
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 0:45)
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So says Vlatko Vedral in Decoding Reality? and that's not metaphor, it's hard science, says quantum information expert Seth Lloyd
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Web inventor gets funds to study his creation
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-23 0:20)
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The UK prime minister has promised to fund Tim Berners-Lee's dream of an institute for web science, says Paul Marks
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Exposed: green consumers' dirty little secrets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-22 22:23)
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After taking the moral high ground with eco-friendly shopping, we are more likely to behave in morally dubious ways
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Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-22 21:35)
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The brutal deed could explain mysterious heat radiating from the icy planet and the tilted, backwards orbit of its moon Triton
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New ceramic is not afraid of the cold
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-22 21:33)
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The Achilles heel of ceramics is their tendency to crack when suddenly cooled– a material that cloaks itself in a blanket of air can fix that
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Stewart Brand: From hippy icon to nuclear enthusiast
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-22 20:47)
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What the world needs now is technological pragmatism, not green fundamentalism, says the man who taught a generation how to drop out
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