Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 29 October 2012

Dramatic shark frenzy tears pig apart in hours

Watch a shark attack consume a dead pig in a forensic experiment probing what happens to a body underwater

Slow-moving hurricanes such as Sandy on the rise

Sandy will linger for days over the US east coast. Climate change means future hurricanes will be more likely to behave this way too

UK gardeners must take some blame for ash dieback

With imported plants the main source of deadly tree diseases, gardeners need to learn to be green as well as green-fingered, says Michael Brooks

The universe: the full story

The grand sweep of cosmic history is about to be revealed in the crackle of giant radio waves, say astrophysicists Abraham Loeb and Jonathan Pritchard

Gay 'cures' don't work but banning them helps nobody

Therapies that claim to make gay people straight are hateful and dangerous, but banning them won't win over their supporters, says Christopher J. Ferguson

The heart-shaped devil seed

This may look like it comes from some hell dimension and is out to get you, but it's actually part of a harmless purple flower

Thinking up a world ruled by neuroscience

Kathleen Taylor raises questions about the impact of advances in neuroscience in The Brain Supremacy, but provides few answers

Kuhn's heroes: Five paradigm-busting revolutions

Get a flavour of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as we look at the four big revolutions that he wrote about - and one that he didn't

Golden solution to inexpensive test for HIV

A new method of detecting viral or cancer proteins using gold nanoparticles could lead to more sensitive and affordable tests for disease

Bitter taste of infection is good for health

The discovery of bitter taste receptors' role in fighting infections paves the way for new treatments for sinusitis

Bouncy-ball cameras scout out dangerous situations

A tennis-ball-sized device containing cameras and infrared lights can be thrown into unknown areas to build panoramic images of what lies ahead

Paste augmented-reality video graffiti on the streets

Software that allows people to cut and paste people and objects onto street scenes points to a new kind of digital tagging

Feedback: United Nations 'plans to destroy US'

Totally insidious agendas, self-conflicting signs, time-travelling emails and more

Ping-pong robot learns to play like a person

A robot that can improvise shots could be the best robotic table tennis challenger yet

Will hurricane Sandy become a 'Frankenstorm'?

The eastern US is bracing for hurricane Sandy, which looks set to be a record-breaker. New Scientist breaks down what we know

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