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Today on New Scientist: 3 November 2009
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 3:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: a challenge to the "out of Africa" theory, the world's rarest species, and the secrets of Carl Jung's "lost" book
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Jung's Red Book: The art of psychology
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-4 2:01)
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Carl Jung's "lost" book? just published for the first time ? is a cornerstone of our intellectual history, says its editor Sonu Shamdasani
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Giant jewels and spray toads: The world's rarest species
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 22:56)
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More species than ever before are facing extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List . See some of the most endangered
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Michael Green: On the shoulders of Newton and Hawking
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 22:00)
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The physicist follows Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking into the Lucasian chair of mathematics at the University of Cambridge
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Animated ink-blot images keep unwanted bots at bay
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 21:50)
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The distorted letters we decipher to prove we are human, not a bot, are getting harder to use and easier to defeat– could images be the solution?
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Space junk piles up into threat to future launches
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 19:57)
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Burgeoning volumes of space debris are going to hit the economics of space flight hard and give mission controllers headaches
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Pay us oil money, or the rainforest gets it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 12:00)
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Ecuador's offer to refrain from drilling for oil in the Amazon rainforest in exchange for money could be a novel way of combatting climate change
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Telescope glitch could delay discovery of alien Earths
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 9:59)
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Noise in a few of the CCDs on NASA's Kepler space telescope could overwhelm the signal of an Earth-like planet, but mission scientists are developing a fix
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Cassini makes deepest dive yet into Saturn moon's jets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 9:32)
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The probe has flown farther into the plumes spewing from icy Enceladus than ever before– it will hunt for complex organic molecules that could hint at life
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Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-11-3 9:01)
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A 110,000-year-old jawbone found in a cave in southern China is stirring the debate over whether humans originated in Africa
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