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Handbrakes and nine lives: keeping Falcon 9 crew safe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 22:11)
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Commercial rocket builder SpaceX is launching its crew-ready Falcon?9 for the first time, showing off an array of smart safety features
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This week's top stories [21 May 2010]
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 22:00)
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Our top articles ranked by reader popularity. Fat lips evolve at record speed Infrared cameras could stop road tunnel fires Pests bite back at genetically modified cotton High five! Physicists create record 'fat' photon Rocket-assisted pills pack a punch to the gut Today on New Scientist: 14 May 2010 Don't believe your eyes: This year's best illusions Guess how much oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico Bonding hormone helps men recognise emotions Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks
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Art from ice: Who will understand it?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 21:10)
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Liz Else loves a new work of art based on layers of ice from Antarctica, but isn't sure if it makes sense without a few pages of explanation
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Replica butterfly flies just like the real thing
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 21:07)
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Powered only by an elastic band, the life-size model is the first to mimic butterfly flight properly
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Could domestication save the bluefin from extinction?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 20:30)
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Plans to farm endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna moved a step forward this week, with the successful captive rearing of a closely related species
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Do you care what happens to a baby's blood sample?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 19:34)
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Pinpricks of blood taken from newborns are a gold mine for medical research– but now some US parents are raising privacy worries
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Living in denial: Unleashing a lie
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 16:00)
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It's easy to send a lie flying around the world, and almost impossible to shoot it down, says Jim Giles
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Levitating glass bead proves Einstein wrong
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 6:47)
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Though the eminent physicist said it couldn't be done, the velocity of a particle undergoing jittery Brownian motion has now been measured
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I, microbe: Sequencing the bugs in our bodies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 4:32)
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NIH researchers publish the genomes of 178 microbes that call the human body home– the project could lead to new treatments for disease
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Today on New Scientist: 20 May 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-5-21 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the fishy case of omega-3, a generator powered by heartbeats, and galactic cannibal feasts
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