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Early humans were butchers 3.4 million years ago
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 2:29)
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Marks on fossil bones unearthed in Ethiopia push the date at which early humans used tools to eat meat back to 3.4 million years ago
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Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 2:00)
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Like the internet and networks of amorous couples, a superconducting crystal has been found to show "scale-free" organisation
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Fallible DNA evidence can mean prison or freedom
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 2:00)
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Expert interpretations of DNA profiles can seal a suspect's fate. A special New Scientist investigation reveals how variable such opinions can be
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Today on New Scientist: 11 August 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the secret behind recent extreme weather, how hydrogen rewrites life's history and atomic Jenga
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'God couldn't do faster': Rubik's cube mystery solved
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 1:28)
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Every possible arrangement of the Rubik's cube can be solved in 20 moves or less, a figure dubbed "God's number"
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Fasting mothers raise potential risk for unborn babies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-12 0:28)
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Women who fast while pregnant produce smaller placentas, which is linked to a greater risk of the child having cardiovascular disease in later life
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Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 21:43)
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The magnetic properties of some materials depend on a few key atoms only, a finding that could help lower the cost of environmentally friendly magnetic cooling
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Zoologger: The world's most fecund vertebrate
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 20:59)
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Resembling a gigantic severed fish head, the ocean sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the sea, and the female produces more eggs than any other vertebrate
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Hand-held sniffer picks out grave sites
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 20:35)
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Chemicals emitted by decaying corpses offer investigators a rapid, on-the-spot way to uncover clandestine graves
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Frozen jet stream leads to flood, fire and famine
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-11 2:16)
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A holding pattern in the jet stream means weather systems stick around with violent consequences
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