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Pollution-trawling voyage finds ocean's plastic 'soup'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-26 2:11)
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Trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres and you'll haul in a generous sprinkling of plastic particles, expedition finds
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Friday illusion: Sneaky snowman
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-26 2:07)
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Help us figure out why a mini snowman's true form is so hard to perceive
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Test children for tobacco smoke exposure
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-26 0:02)
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US parents back initiative to test their children at age 1 and 2 for exposure to smoke
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Color: Is it just the latest useless social media app?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 23:28)
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A new wave of location-based social media apps are exciting Silicon Valley, but does anyone else really care?
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Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 22:36)
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An electrode array implanted into the brain of a woman with quadriplegia is still helping her to communicate years after the operation
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Feedback: Meeting yourself in other universes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 22:10)
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How the grass is always greener in an alternate universe, the end of history, killer mice from space, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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Naval sonar drives whales from feeding grounds
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 22:07)
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Blainville's beaked whales swim away from good hunting grounds when the US navy begins sonar operations in the area, leaving them hungry
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Where robots labour to overcome genetic disease
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 21:14)
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In an eerie blue-lit room of the world's biggest human genome sequencing factory, 16 robots are working out what gene mutations cause disease
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Last day of I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 20:21)
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On the last day of I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here, a cell biologist tells us why we need to keep the fun in science
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Fukushima men stood in radioactive water without boots
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-3-25 19:40)
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Three workers exposed to up to 180 millisieverts of radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant have been taken to a specialist radiation research centre
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