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Today on New Scientist: 12 November 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: finding Jupiter's lost stripe, treating cancer with bubbles and how chalk may help climate change
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Ladies and gentlemen, our cars are floating in space
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 2:40)
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An unfinished car seems to float in space, whilst technicians and robots appear around it in a blur of colour
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US internet hosts are linchpin of criminal botnets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 2:20)
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Cybercriminals choose US internet companies to host their botnet control servers, a new study commissioned by New Scientist reveals
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It's life– only much, much bigger
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 1:45)
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The mathematical universe known as the Game of Life has been recreated on a grand scale– and now it even responds to your touch
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Bad memory for faces? Blame your reading skills
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 1:19)
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Brain scans show that learning to read may undermine our ability to recognise faces, because both functions depend on the same brain-cell network
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Fungal threads are the internet of the plant world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 0:30)
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Plants use the familiar white threads that hang off their roots to communicate and warn each other of disease
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Rock-burning, sea-zapping geoengineering could cut CO2
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 0:27)
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Common minerals and electric currents that suck carbon dioxide out of the sea could be allies in the fight against climate change
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Margaret Atwood shares her dystopian vision
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-13 0:11)
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Climatologist Brian Hoskins recently debated with Margaret Atwood– and their conclusions paint a bleak future for the human race
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Is Jupiter's lost stripe making a comeback?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-12 21:42)
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In May, Jupiter lost one of its brown stripes. Now, amateur astronomers have glimpsed a white dot that suggests it is returning
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Feedback: A most prolific falsehood
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-12 21:21)
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Credit card machines that lie, lie, lie; common sense not included; words to avoid in nuclear industry press releases; and more (full text available to subscribers)
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