Sunday, March 4, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 2 March 2012


The android head in the overhead compartment

The story of scientists who misplaced an android head proves an apt metaphor for the state of humanoid robotics

Daub microchips with plant DNA to weed out the fakes

Electronics engineers have failed to come up with a way to authenticate microchips. The Pentagon is asking whether nature has the answer

Eyewitness videos reveal secrets of Japan's tsunami

Footage of Japan's devastating inundation is providing vital information that will help engineers prepare for the next big one

Feedback: Highway exit with no return

It is probably best not to take some of the unusual road signs spotted by readers at face value... you have been warned

Mutant bird flu virus still as deadly as first thought

The researcher who made an easy-to-catch form of bird flu claims his virus is not really as virulent as reported - but a close look at his evidence suggests it is

Zoologger: The worm that looks like a tree

A newly discovered worm lives inside sponges and has hundreds of branches

How Nazi laws stymied German nuclear dreams

In The Quantum Exodus, Gordon Fraser explores whether Nazi Germany could have had the H-bomb if it had not expelled Jewish scientists

Dead psychedelic chemical gel comes back to life

See how colours oscillating wildly in a responsive gel have been revived by a mechanical trigger for the first time

Thermal flashlight 'paints' cold rooms with colour

A DIY gadget shines different colours of light on a surface depending on its temperature, helping to show where more insulation is needed in a room

Oceans acidifying at unprecedented speed

The world's oceans are acidifying faster than at any time in the last 300 million years, thanks to our carbon dioxide emissions

Broken coral embryos become clone army

The embryos of reef-building corals get torn apart by gentle waves, but the fragments survive and develop into tiny, identical larvae

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