Thursday, September 13, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 11 September 2012

Artists go viral with maverick angles on immunity

A new exhibition in Glasgow, UK, sheds personal perspectives on the battles of the immune system and the work of research

Pedal-powered plane wins novel flight race

Watch the winner of an inaugural competition for human-powered aircraft that hopes to turn the activity into a new extreme sport

The world's mightiest neutrino detectors

Take a look at the heavyweight tech that the world's laboratories are using to pick out neutrinos, the needles in physics's haystack

Threatwatch: Swine flu evolves under the radar

Dangerous flu viruses are evolving in pigs, yet pigs are under little more surveillance now than they were before the 2009 swine flu pandemic

Five worthless species in need of saving

They're pretty, but are they worth saving? See five unusual animals and plants that offer no benefit to humanity and decide whether they have value anyway

Galactic alphabet lights up the sky

We have discovered an important message written in the stars. Read it to gain great wisdom and understanding

Metallic blue fruit shines brightest of all

The bright blue colour of an African fruit turns out to be due to a unique cellular structure similar to that found in certain beetles

Brain scans show how crows distinguish friend from foe

Crows use the same brain mechanisms that we do to recognise friends and enemies

Gentle robotic tentacles can pick up flowers

Soft-plastic robotic tentacles prove better for working with delicate objects than their metal counterparts

Fiendish 'ABC proof' heralds new mathematical universe

Solving a 25-year-old puzzle meant tearing up and rebuilding the basic elements of number theory - that result could prise open other enigmas

Curiosity rover turns on its Martian geology handycam

NASA's Martian geologist is finally making use of its hand lens imager - a souped-up version of the hand lenses carried by its human counterparts

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