Sunday, February 26, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 24 February 2012

Video game has hidden message offering jobs to pirates

A recently released game includes a hidden text file with a message designed for software pirates to read

New doubt over H5N1 death rate - but risks still high

Death rates for H5N1 bird flu may be overestimated, but even if they are, they're still worse than the 1918 flu pandemic which killed tens of millions

Friday Illusion: How to make a dull diamond sparkle

See how following a moving object can create a twinkling effect in your peripheral vision

New cancer drug sabotages tumour's escape route

Untreatable cancers may soon be held at bay by an experimental drug that targets not only the tumour, but its capacity to spread

Taste buds that resemble a moonscape

Dark Skies, an artwork at UCLA's Art|Sci gallery, challenges notions of scale with huge computer-sculpted mouse taste buds lit up by sunsets

Metaphorical search engine finds creative new meanings

YossarianLives, named after the anti-hero of Catch-22, doesn't tell you what everyone else knows - it seeks to creatively generate new knowledge

Feedback: Golden section for bladder stones

The golden section of a lethal dose, why Google employees never, ever break the rules, and the shop assistant who wasn't there

Outreach or papers: where should postdocs' priorities lie?

Future employers insist on papers but funding bodies like public engagement. How much time can a postdoc afford to take away from the books?

Light's speed limit is safe for now

Nearly six months on from the faster-than-light neutrino sensation we finally seem to have a possible explanation, says Robert Garisto

Tapping technology will create bounty for all

In Abundance: The future is better than you think, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis creates an optimistic vision - but does it square with reality?

Japan's 2011 megaquake reactivated dormant faults

The magnitude 9 megaquake that shook the east coast of Japan in March 2011 reactivated dormant faults close to Fukushima's beleaguered nuclear reactors

Was early ungulate first mammal to echolocate?

A distant forerunner of horses may have used echolocation to explore its underground habitat, new fossil evidence suggests

Rain sucks energy out of world's wind

For the first time we have an estimate of the amount of energy dissipated by rainfall, which drains energy from the world's winds

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