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Can neuroscience help Gap produce a better logo?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-21 1:05)
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Neuroscientists have delved into volunteers' brains to find out exactly why there was such a backlash against Gap's new logo
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Morality: Do your worst, virtually
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-21 0:50)
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Immersive virtual reality technology allows researchers to see how people respond to real and risky moral dilemmas, says Samantha Murphy
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Green machine: Trees may spell trouble for wind power
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 23:33)
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Burgeoning forests not only keep CO 2 levels in check, they also cut wind speeds– with unfortunate effects for energy generation
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Asia tops climate change's 'most vulnerable' list
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 23:31)
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Ten of the 16 countries most vulnerable to climate change are in Asia; to escape the worst, move to Scandinavia, Ireland or Iceland
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Humans eradicate a disease for only second time ever
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 23:01)
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The cattle plague rinderpest has been wiped off the planet, say global health authorities
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All-electric spintronic semiconductor devices created
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 20:32)
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Electron spin could become the universal language of computers– now it has been created and measured electronically in a standard semiconductor
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50 ideas to change science forever: Nanotechnology
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 20:25)
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Quantum mechanics will go mechanical and your computer will run on ghostly knots, or spintronics, or maybe even slowed-down light
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Zoologger: The slow-moving mystery of the sloth's neck
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 19:55)
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Sitting quietly on a tree branch in South America, brown-throated sloths don't do much? except break a law of mammalian evolution
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Morality: 'We can send religion to the scrap heap'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 18:20)
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Sam Harris says that science can show us the best ways for human beings to thrive? and we can then junk religion forever
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Today on New Scientist: 19 October 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: Stone Age burgers, what to do if big pharma breaks the law and how to simulate white holes at home
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