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Zeros to heroes: Rogue brain-killing proteins
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-18 0:34)
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Before winning his Nobel prize, Stanley Prusiner was ridiculed for suggesting that something he called a prion caused spongiform brain diseases
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What caused San Francisco's gas pipeline explosion?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 23:15)
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Last week's explosion of a high-pressure gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, raises troubling questions about ageing US infrastructure, says Jeff Hecht
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Hello stranger, your driving stinks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 23:15)
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A smartphone app that recognises vehicle number plates allows drivers who have never met to communicate, says Duncan Graham-Rowe
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It ain't over till the fat Klingon sings
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 22:52)
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Trekkies-cum-opera enthusiasts, your day has finally arrived: Klingon opera has come to Earth, says David Shiga
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Antibiotics play hell with gut flora
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 21:49)
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Each round of antibiotics may be a roll of the dice that could lead to lasting changes in a person's gut microbes
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Did Jupiter and Saturn play pinball with Uranus?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 21:00)
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Uranus may have been batted back and forth between Jupiter and Saturn before being flung out to its present location, new simulations suggest
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Revolutionary medical images now coming in the mail
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 20:15)
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A new series of stamps issued by the British Royal Mail celebrates some of the most important medical discoveries in the country since the late 19th century
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California's dolphins suffer mystery skin lesions
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 20:02)
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Bottlenose dolphins in Monterey Bay, California, are in the throes of an epidemic of disfiguring skin diseases, and nobody knows why
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Light trapped on curved surfaces
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 19:26)
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Laser light has been made to flow across the surface of curved objects? the feat could help model how light travels in the curved fabric of space
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Zeros to heroes: Tall tales or the truth of tiny life?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-17 19:12)
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When a 17th-century Dutch draper told London's finest minds he had seen "animalcules" through his home-made microscope, they took some convincing
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