Saturday, December 24, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 21 December 2011

Wind shear makes amazing waves in Alabama's skies

Making waves in Alabama - a rare atmospheric phenomenon, known as a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, amazes onlookers

Smart Guide 2012: 10 ideas you'll want to understand

Neutrinos, Higgs, environment, artificial IQ, Olympics, human origins, US election, Facebook, the brain, networks: what's on the agenda for next year

Earth, life's only home

In Alone in the Universe: Why our planet is unique, cosmologist John Gribbin makes a compelling case that no other planet could sustain life

2011 review: The year in technology

Our editors' top 10 tech picks cover a human-besting computer, speed freaks, green machines, digital dissidence, and more

Best videos of 2011: Phone spy snoops on your texts

At number 10 in our countdown, watch a software sleuth detect and decipher messages keyed in on a smartphone

Swimming around the statues

Artist Jason deCaires Taylor makes artificial reefs from cement casts of real people

Ultrasonic screwdriver to make plastic planes safer

It's been a long time coming but engineers are finally getting some tools that might make plastic aircraft safer

Killer flu research to be censored

A US biosecurity committee says that some information on the creation of a lethal bird flu that could go pandemic should be kept under wraps

Icy 'hand' moves boulders on Mars

On Mars, curiously ordered boulder clumps form near the northern ice cap when seasonal ice envelops the rocks and the ground shrinks and shifts beneath them

Careers going global

A spell abroad used to be a luxury - now it's becoming the norm if you want to get ahead in science, says Jessica Griggs

Why psychoanalysis never existed

In The Freud Files Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and Sonu Shamdasani argue that "declassified" documents upend the legend of Freud and psychoanalysis

Play tiny Tetris using a laser beam

See how a light-trapping device can recreate a microscopic version of the classic video game

What Higgs result means for dark matter conspiracy

Recent hints of a featherweight Higgs boson affect a possible link between the Higgs and dark matter

Smallest planet is tinier than Earth

Exoplanet hunters have bagged the most petite worlds yet - one is just 87 per cent as wide as Earth

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