Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 25 September 2012

California space law boosts business, not safety

The new law treats private spaceflight more like sky-diving than air travel, but there are no statistics on the safety of commercial trips

Can castration really prolong a man's life?

Analysis of records of court eunuchs in Korea suggest that castration prolongs life. Does it really, or are there other explanations?

Threatwatch: New killer virus in the Middle East

Is the new coronavirus that has killed a man in Saudi Arabia the next SARS? How worried should we be about this threat?

Poll deals climate change blow for Mitt Romney

The Republican party's scepticism about climate change could play badly with undecided voters as a poll suggests 65 per cent believe it is caused by humans

Poke Einstein's brain with a genius iPad app

The National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago has released an iPad app containing digital images of Einstein's preserved brain

Lane-keeping app makes any car smarter

A smartphone app gives old bangers two safety features that are normally reserved for luxury cars: a lane-departure warning and driver-fatigue alerts

Our token involvement in the Game of Life

A play about emergence draws parallels between ant colonies and human behaviour, but fails to portray the big picture of the Game of Life

Water-cooled chip concentrates the sun to desalinate

IBM is turning its water-cooled microprocessor technology to a solar power application that could bring clean drinking water to arid regions

The pros and cons of geoengineering

With time running out to cut emissions, take a look at the main technological planet-cooling methods proposed - and find out their pros and cons

Meet the man who gave the Mars rover its eyes

Iconic pictures from the latest mission to the Red Planet are coming courtesy of space imaging expert Michael Malin

Truth decay: The half-life of facts

Much of what we believe to be factual has an expiration date, but the good news is that we can see it coming

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