Bug eats electricity, farts biogas
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-6 1:45)
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With the help of a novel cellular trick, electricity can be used to turn COSUB2/SUBinto methanendash; it could help solve reliability problems with wind and solar powerimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3b0b082/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Bug eats electricity, farts biogaslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16902-bug-eats-electricity-farts-biogas.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Bug eats electricity, farts biogaslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16902-bug-eats-electricity-farts-biogas.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div
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The five ages of the brain: Adulthood
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-5 22:23)
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Part 4: The peak of your brain's powers comes at around age 22 and lasts for just half a decadendash; but there is an upside to the ageing brainimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3adfa87/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The five ages of the brain: Adulthoodlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227023.000-the-five-ages-of-the-brain-adulthood.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The five ages of the brain: Adulthoodlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227023.000-the-five-ages-of-the-brain-adulthood.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.fee ...
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Quantum mathematics could improve web searches
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-5 20:01)
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A technique for studying disorder in quantum systems is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages, and may be adaptable to genome analysisimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3adf34c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Quantum mathematics could improve web searcheslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.500-quantum-mathematics-could-improve-web-searches.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Quantum mathematics could improve web searcheslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.500-quantum-mathematics-could-improve-web-searches.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.g ...
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Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-5 20:01)
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A technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches, and may be adaptable to genome analysisimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3b07c3e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.500-could-quantum-mathematics-shake-up-google.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.500-could-quantum-mathematics-shake-up-google.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div
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Hurricane speed reveals where storm surges will strike
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-5 18:59)
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The speed at which a hurricane progresses across the ocean may help forecasters predict which areas are at risk from flooding by storm surgesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3adb95d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hurricane speed reveals where storm surges will strikelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227025.100-hurricane-speed-reveals-where-storm-surges-will-strike.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hurricane speed reveals where storm surges will strikelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227025.100-hurricane-speed-reveals-where-storm-surges-will-strike.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/book ...
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The five ages of the brain: Adolescence
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-5 0:44)
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Part 3: Teenagers are selfish, reckless, irrational and irritable, but given the cacophony of construction going on inside the adolescent brain, is it any wonder?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3ac3a64/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The five ages of the brain: Adolescencelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227022.900-the-five-ages-of-the-brain-adolescence.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The five ages of the brain: Adolescencelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227022.900-the-five-ages-of-the-brain-adolescence.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divb ...
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Poker skills could sway gaming laws
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-4 20:55)
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Two statistical studies provide some of the best evidence yet that poker is more skill than chance, which could help to clarify the application of gambling lawsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3abd760/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Poker skills could sway gaming lawslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227024.800-poker-skills-could-sway-gaming-laws.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Poker skills could sway gaming lawslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227024.800-poker-skills-could-sway-gaming-laws.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="htt ...
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Google sees infrared in plan to scan world's books
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-4 19:12)
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The way book pages bend in at the spine is posing problems for the mammoth scanning project, but projecting an infrared grid on the page should helpimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3ab9b70/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Google sees infrared in plan to scan world's bookslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-sees-infrared-in-plan-to-scan-worlds-books.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Google sees infrared in plan to scan world's bookslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227026.000-google-sees-infrared-in-plan-to-scan-worlds-books.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" b ...
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Milky Way may hide dark matter 'pancake'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-4 17:00)
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Our galaxy's disc of stars and gas capture dark matter from colliding galaxies, new calculations suggest, which would form a massive pancake of the mysterious substanceimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3ab2db2/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Milky Way may hide dark matter 'pancake'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227025.400-milky-way-may-hide-dark-matter-pancake.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Milky Way may hide dark matter 'pancake'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227025.400-milky-way-may-hide-dark-matter-pancake.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/ta ...
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On the trail of mythical beasts
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-4-4 16:00)
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Why are stories of unicorns and wild-men like Bigfoot so enduringly popular? Two new books suggest they meet deep-rooted human needsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/3aafe77/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=On the trail of mythical beastslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227021.600-on-the-trail-of-mythical-beasts.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=On the trail of mythical beastslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227021.600-on-the-trail-of-mythical-beasts.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/36292021769/u/0/f/1 ...
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