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Behind the scenes at Kew Gardens
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-13 1:09)
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See what New Scientist found when we were invited to see the botanical gardens' hidden places
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An astronomical piece of 'chiptune' music
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-13 0:40)
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Pixelh8, who makes music using the sounds of obscure technology, has written a suite of music inspired by astronomers– we have some excerpts
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Metal mist clears for fusion power
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-13 0:30)
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A fine mist of toxic metal will not choke off the fusion reactions inside the planned ITER reactor, as physicists had feared
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This week's top stories [12 March 2010]
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 23:00)
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Our top articles ranked by reader popularity. Adding oxygen to booze speeds sobriety Today on New Scientist: 5 March 2010 New element copernicium wins a symbol at last Automatic secretary can tame a bulging inbox The self-charging cellphone Sleep wrong and you'll feel the bad fat This week's top stories [05 March 2010] Journal editor: Tobacco-funded studies are bad for us Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth For smaller chips, borrow 18th-century tricks
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England has failed with dangerous, disturbed offenders
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 22:01)
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That's the message of a review of a pioneering programme run over the past decade in two jails and two secure mental hospitals
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HDTV reveals brainy octopus has no personality
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 21:32)
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The world's most intelligent invertebrates can be tricked by HD images, letting us study their personalities and behaviour
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Electric cars jostle for position on the power grid
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 20:06)
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When the surge of plug-in vehicles hits the streets over the next few years, how will our electricity grids cope?
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Digital Economy Bill is disaster for digital economy
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 19:55)
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The proposed new laws would result in the innocent being punished for offences that have not even taken place, says Jim Killock
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Shoddy construction beats precision in quantum world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 4:00)
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Instead of striving to eliminate imperfection physicists would do better to inject a bit of randomness into their quantum devices
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'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-12 3:39)
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We'd better make sure that we send a big enough bomb to stop an incoming asteroid? if we don't, the space rock could reassemble
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