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New Urbanist: Our infrastructure is expanding to include animals
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-5 22:00)
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Animals are vital for the functioning of modern cities, but we need to be morally prepared when we inevitably start engineering them for specific urban tasks
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If our planet had a brain, it might look something like this
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-5 20:00)
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The San Fernando marshes in southern Spain is a mass of brain-like folds, populated by communities of algae and bacteria in a giant fractal landscape
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Flying in a spaceplane is like a magic carpet ride
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-5 4:00)
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Virgin Galactic's chief pilot David Mackay on how he's gearing up to take tourists to the edge of space? and why recent tragedies won't stop him (full text available to subscribers)
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The human universe: Could we engineer the galaxy?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-5 2:00)
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We may be masters of architecture here on Earth, but with a couple of leaps in technology, we could tinker with the shape of the cosmos? and even its fate (full text available to subscribers)
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Severe heat costs the Australian economy US$6.2 billion a year
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-5 0:00)
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Australians take an average of 4 days off a year due to heat stress– that plus lower productivity on hot days dents economic output by nearly 0.5 per cent
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The human universe: Could we colonise the stars?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-4 18:00)
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If we really are alone in the universe, should we take Earth's life to other planets? Especially as we might already have the means (full text available to subscribers)
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The human universe: If aliens exist, do they know we're here?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-4 3:00)
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Extraterrestrials could already be learning about life on Earth. Problem is, it's probably from TV signals transmitted in 1973… (full text available to subscribers)
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Scientific Babel: Why English rules
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-3 22:00)
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English is now the language we all use to communicate science. But while it may feel inevitable, the domination of English is very recent and may be down to geopolitics and other accidents, argues a new book
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The human universe: Could we destroy the fabric of the cosmos?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-3 18:00)
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As our grip on Earth grows ever tighter, so does the possibility that we could destroy it. But we may have the power to do something even worse (full text available to subscribers)
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The Least Likely Man celebrates a genetic-code-breaking genius
from New Scientist - Online news
(2015-5-3 2:00)
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Why do we know so little about the man who first read a word in our genetic code? A fine but brief biography tells the tale of Marshall Nirenberg
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