Friday, October 7, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 5 October 2011

Monkeys 'feel' texture of virtual objects

Rhesus macaques have learned to feel the texture of virtual objects on a computer screen without touching a thing

World's first cloned human embryonic stem cells

Human embryonic stem cells have been cloned by fusing skin cells with unfertilised eggs - the trouble is they have three sets of chromosomes

First ever image of fourth-order rainbow

A German photographer has snapped a a picture of the first fourth-order rainbow reported in nature

Stumbling onto remedies

Great Discoveries in Medicine shows that many of the treatments commonly used today were discovered in surprising ways

Apple kills off original Siri app, tells users to upgrade

The iPhone 4S's new feature used to be available on older handsets - until Apple removed it

Heretical crystal takes Nobel glory

The Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for the discovery of quasicrystals, which evoke Islamic tiling but broke the rules of crystal symmetry

When orchestras summon a storm

From Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, atmospheric scientists take a look at depictions of weather in classical music

Space apps: smartphone at heart of satellite mission

Do today's smartphones contain enough circuitry and sensors to run a space mission? A British space pioneer is about to find out

Faster-than-light neutrinos? New answers flood in

Explanations are coming in thick and fast for the seeming ability of subatomic particles to break the cosmic speed limit

Scott and Amundsen: Race for the South Pole

On the 100-year anniversary of Scott and Amundsen's journey south, we take a trip to the Antarctic

App could help you control your home appliances

Teletouch, a smartphone app that can control your lights and even your TV, could become the ultimate universal remote

Electrons dance in slow-mo

Watch a cloud of electrons bob up and down in this simulation

Climatequake: Will global warming rock the planet?

The Earth's crust will heave as ice melts and the sea rises - and that could unleash earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis

Ice-age nettles may survive in dark Chinese caves

Walk into a cave in south-west China and you could be stepping back 30,000 years - they could be a time capsule preserving rare nettles from the last ice age

Evolutionary clues from ancestors' brains?

In The Fossil Chronicles, anthropologist Dean Falk delves into two major fossil finds that have stirred controversy about human evolution

Forget the new iPhone, let's talk Siri

At Apple's press conference today a personal assistant program called Siri was announced that could change how we interact with our phones

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