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'Matrix for mice' probes how mental maps are made
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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Virtual reality created specially for mice could help explain how the brain creates internal maps
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Richard Leakey: Passionate, prickly and principled
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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After a distinguished career studying human evolution, he quit to fight for conservation in Africa. The two decades since haven't softened him
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What shook up Saturn's rings in 1984?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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Something disrupted the rings 25 years ago, creating a pattern like the grooves on a vinyl record? and the mystery is only getting deeper
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WHO launches worldwide war on booze
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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Alcohol abuse is the fifth leading cause of premature death in the world today. Now the World Health Organization is trying to stamp it out
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The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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Navigator, accountant and secretary in one, it knows more about you than you think? and will spill its secrets to anyone who has ways of making it talk
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First black hole for light created on Earth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 1:13)
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An electromagnetic black hole has been built in a lab– and may one day be adapted to generate limitless solar energy even on a cloudy day
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Macaques are creeped out by cyber-selves
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-14 22:47)
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Robots that look too human-like are eerie, the so-called "uncanny valley". It turns out that monkeys find their CGI counterparts every bit as freaky
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Virtual workforce found in Kenyan refugee camp
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-14 22:23)
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Crowd-sourcing may help bring the hard labour of the digital economy to those in desperate need of money
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Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-14 22:05)
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An attention deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may make psychopathic people seem fearless
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Butterfly is pupae-sniffing cradle-snatcher
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-14 20:21)
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Some males sit on the pupae of female butterflies for up to 10 days before they hatch, to get first dibs at mating with them? but how do they know it's a female in there?
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