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Today on New Scientist: 30 July 2012
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-31 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the age of inequality, robot miners, high-tech fashion, ice avalanche on Saturnian moon, and more
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Quantum weirdness: Catching the ghost in the atom
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-31 1:27)
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Watch an animation that shows why the wave function may be part of the physical world and not just a mathematical formula
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Ugandans urged to avoid contact as Ebola spreads
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-31 1:27)
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An outbreak of one of the world's most feared viruses has killed 14 people in Uganda's capital city
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Mega ice avalanche on Saturn moon has liquid flow
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-31 1:15)
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Icy landslides on Saturn's weird moon Iapetus behave strangely, flowing like fluids for immense horizontal distances
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Stanford大学、細菌の完全なコンピュータモデルを世界で初めて確立
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2012-7-31 0:00)
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米Stanford大学は2012年7月19日、生命工学科（Bioengineering）の研究チームが情報生命科学（computational biology）の手法を駆使し世界初となる細菌の完全なコンピュータモデルを完成したと発表した。対象とした細菌は世界最小の生命体と見られているMycoplasma genitaliumで、バイオCAD（computer-aided design）への道を開くことにもなる。この研究成果は最新号のCell誌（Vol 150, Issue 2, 389-401, 20 July 2012）に「A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype」というタイトルの論文として掲載されている。
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Renewable Fuels Association、米干ばつによるトウモロコシ収穫量の減少に伴うバイオエタノール生産量の201
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2012-7-31 0:00)
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米Renewable Fuels Association（RFA）は2012年7月16日、この夏米中西部の多く地域にわたって起こっている極端な暑さと乾燥した天候により、政府や民間アナリストによる2012年のトウモロコシ収穫高の予測は著しく縮小されているが、エタノール生産量はそれほど大きく減少しないという予測を発表した。
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An appeal for fairness in society
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-30 23:56)
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To tackle inequality we must first overcome our own biased belief that people deserve their position on the social ladder
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High-tech clothes let fashionistas bare all
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-30 21:56)
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A wearable lie-detector dress and a frock that can turn transparent are some of the technologically enhanced clothing on show at an exhibition in Vienna
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The battle of freedom and control in a networked world
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-30 19:00)
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Networked individualism is reshaping social interaction as we renegotiate the balance between the one and the many, say Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman
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Robots move into the mining business
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-7-30 18:00)
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The dirty, back-breaking work of extracting minerals from the Earth is being taken over by machines (full text available to subscribers)
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