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Today on New Scientist: 14 October 2009
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-15 2:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how your smartphone could rat you out, the first shots fired in the war on booze, and some very creepy macaques
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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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