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Wasp inspires brain-boring surgical robot
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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A robot inspired by the wood-boring wasp could find the safest route through brain and muscle tissue
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Did the Moon's far side once face Earth?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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An analysis of lunar impact craters suggests that the Moon's hidden hemisphere may have pointed our way - until an asteroid flipped it around
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Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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The tree of life, one of the iconic concepts of evolution, has turned out to be a figment of our imagination
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Mountain gorillas in dire straits, DNA reveals
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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A new genetic technique shows that the number of mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda is lower than we thought
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Launch green economic revolution now, says Stern
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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If we are to avert a climate disaster, governments must seize the moment, recession or not, leading economist Nicholas Stern, tells
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Special investigation: Who's testing your DNA?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 3:00)
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Stealthy paternity and infidelity testing can destroy privacy and tear families apart, but the law is struggling to keep up– investigates
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Satellites provide eagle-eye views of Obama inauguration
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 0:57)
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The sharpest colour satellite images taken of Barack Obama's inauguration are helping to pin down crowd estimates
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Invention: Biofuel from the oceans
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-22 0:25)
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A straightforward process can break down seaweed into ethanol without taking up valuable land, says a new patent application
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Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-21 21:25)
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The nuclear equivalent of a stone axe has been found inside an abandoned safe at the oldest nuclear processing site in the world
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Starving bacteria bumped up early Earth's oxygen
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-1-21 20:15)
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Measurements of nickel prior to the "Great Oxygenation Event" 2.5 billion years ago suggest that hungry bacteria spewed less oxygen-eating methane
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