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Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 16:00)
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We've found lots of it, we're learning how to get it and we think we can clean it before we burn it. Is natural gas the secure answer to our energy woes?
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Doubts over safety tests on Gulf oil dispersants
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 2:30)
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We reveal serious flaws in toxicity tests on dispersants being used to break up spilt oil from Deepwater Horizon
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How dangerous is my cellphone? Check the label
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 2:19)
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Label all cellphones with radio wave emission levels, says the mayor of San Francisco. But, asks Nic Fleming, is it right to do so?
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Today on New Scientist: 16 June 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the first replicator from the God game, the odd behaviour of the anti-neutrino, and why wolves belong together
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David King: No cause for climate despair
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 2:00)
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There are ways around the impasse over a global emissions deal, says the UK's former chief scientist
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First replicating creature spawned in life simulator
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-17 2:00)
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The organism, which inhabits the mathematical universe known as the Game of Life, might just tell us something about our own beginnings
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Brian Greene: Putting emotion back into science
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-16 23:50)
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In the classical myth, Icarus flies too close to the sun and dies. In Brian Greene's multimedia reimagining of the story, he flies too close to a black hole
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Anti-neutrino's odd behaviour points to new physics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-16 21:33)
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An experiment has detected a surprising discrepancy in the behaviour of neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts
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Space shuttle's rudder could cut aircraft noise
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-16 20:31)
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Redesigning airliners' rudders to double as a brake could make them quieter as they come in to land, an Airbus patent suggests
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In search of the gamer's fix
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-16 20:18)
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In Extra Lives, Tom Bissell gets to the bottom of games' powerful emotional pull
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