Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 14 August 2012

LHC primordial matter is hottest stuff ever made

Probing the switch from the primordial soup of the early universe to the protons and neutrons of normal matter has led to a new heat record

Arctic sea ice heads for record low

Next month could see Arctic sea ice sink to its lowest extent yet, beating the previous record, set in 2007

Olympic stars unite to promote global hunger summit

Pel? and Mo Farah have joined UK prime minister David Cameron and a variety of health organisations to discuss how best to tackle global malnutrition

Curiosity to Earth: Look! Me on Mars

Taking a great picture of yourself is never easy - even if you're the pioneering, alien-life-hunting robot Mars Science Laboratory

Mathematics is as rich as literature

Polyglot and autistic savant Daniel Tammet's Thinking in Numbers will open your eyes to mathematics like nothing you've ever read

Scent of sex and death attracts virgin female beetles

For one insect, the allure of sex pheromones isn't enough to attract a mate - but throw in the scent of rotting flesh, and the cocktail becomes irresistible

Best-ever quality printing inspired by stained glass

A new printing technique can produce colour images at the highest resolution permitted by the laws of physics

Mysterious Pioneer anomaly: 'This is the answer'

Astrophysicist Slava Turyshev has explained away decades of exotic speculation over the Pioneer anomaly, the puzzling slowdown of two NASA probes

Space fuel crisis: NASA confronts the plutonium pinch

The cold war plutonium reserves that fuel NASA's deep space probes are running low. How will we power our way to the outer solar system in future?

Human and Neanderthal interbreeding questioned

The genes that many humans share in common with Neanderthals do not reflect interspecies breeding, a controversial study suggests

Twin Iranian earthquakes leave 300 dead

North-west Iran is reeling from two powerful earthquakes - each with a magnitude above 6 - that occurred within 11 minutes of each other on 11 August

US to help clean up Agent Orange from Vietnamese site

US plans to decontaminate Vietnam's forests 40 years after its military planes sprayed the toxic herbicide onto the soil, causing long-term illness

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