Today on New Scientist: 22 December 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Elon Musk's plans for Mars, next year's US cyber election, CFS paper retracted, and more
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Spots and stripes: Cheetah speeds across savannah
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 2:45)
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High-speed hunt captured by a photographer as a cheetah crashes down on impala in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve
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Smart Guide 2012: 10 ideas you'll want to understand
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 1:36)
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Neutrinos, Higgs, environment, artificial IQ, Olympics, human origins, US election, Facebook, the brain, networks: what's on the agenda for next year
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How to build a gamma-ray laser with antimatter hybrid
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 1:32)
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Now there's a way to make unstable positronium atoms survive much longer, a key step towards making a powerful gamma-ray laser
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Controversial chronic fatigue-virus paper retracted
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 1:10)
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The journal Science has retracted a controversial paper from 2009 reporting that a mouse leukaemia virus could be the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome
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Win the 10 best science books of 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 1:00)
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New Scientist looks back on a bumper crop of popular science books in 2011 and offers you a chance to win a collection of the 10 best
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Smart Guide to 2012: The US cyber election
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 0:53)
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The way we live our lives online will make it easier for US presidential candidates to target their message
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Best videos of 2011: 3D tour of HIV
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 0:46)
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Sliding in at number 9, the most detailed model of HIV lets you peer into the core of the virus
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2011 review: The year in Zoologger's extreme beasts
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-23 0:00)
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Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals? and occasionally other organisms ? from around the world. Here's our top 10
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I'll put millions of people on Mars, says Elon Musk
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-12-22 23:23)
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The swashbuckling SpaceX founder says that he can get to Mars on a shoestring within 20 years? thanks to the fully reusable rockets he's determined to build (full text available to subscribers)
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