Saturday, December 17, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 16 December 2011

Friday Illusion: Morphing blobs conceal trippy effects

Watch spinning ellipses trick your brain as their shape and colour are tweaked

New taker for 'world's smallest frog' crown

Say hello to the smallest frog in the world - and, possibly, the smallest tetrapod

Did Iran capture US drone by hacking its GPS signal?

Reports today suggest that Iran may have jammed a US drone's signal and tricked it into landing at an Iranian base

Snowmageddon: What's behind extreme winter weather

Is the freakishly cold weather that hit Europe and the US in the past two years a fluke or a trend, asks Michael Le Page

Don't blame the usual suspect for cancer

What if proliferation is the norm for cells - and a very different theory of cancers' cause is waiting in the wings, ask Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana M. Soto

The Bollywood psych ward

A theatrical production brings the high drama and glitz of Bollywood into a Danish psychiatric hospital.

Bedbugs owe their success to inbreeding

A genetic analysis suggests that some building-wide infestations of bedbugs may have originated from a single pregnant female

Most chimp experiments unnecessary, says US panel

Outright ban in US ruled out, but bar raised for justifying experiments on chimpanzees

Remote robots: Human-free by land, sea and air

Our gallery of super-secret remote-controlled vehicles include a plane that flies for five years non-stop and a captainless boat

Hubble images celestial snow angel in 3D

See a stunning visualisation of a star-forming region home to a violent young star

Why naked mole rats feel no pain from acid

The pink, hairless subterranean mammal is insensible to pain caused by acid. Now we know why, which could lead to treatments for arthritis

Fix acid oceans by dumping alkali in them? Forget it

Suggestions that we can dump alkaline chemicals into the oceans to prevent acidification seems dead in the water - it would cost trillions of dollars

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