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Pescatarian spiders munch on fish all over the world
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 6:00)
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The first global survey of fish-eating spiders shows that they prey on fish on every continent except Antarctica, usually pouncing from the waterside
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Weird organisms emerge from the deep, dark biosphere
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 4:30)
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We have read the genomes of enigmatic microbes that scrape a living far underground and in rivers under the ocean bed? our best view yet of this alien world
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Energy trilemma: Can power be cheap, clean and secure?
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 4:00)
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When it comes to electricity supply, we're caught in a vicious triangle. A bold scheme that pays big business to switch off could be part of the solution (full text available to subscribers)
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Harvey, the robot farmer fixing the US labour shortage
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 3:30)
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It's getting harder to find people to work on farms in the US? robo-farmers are shifting plants and could soon be picking strawberries in their place
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Hackers reverse-engineer NSA's leaked bugging devices
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 3:00)
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Using documents leaked by Edward Snowden and a new form of radio, hackers have recreated the bugs that US spies plant to steal personal information
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Talking dolphins and the love story that wasn't
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 2:06)
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The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins explores a 1960s project to teach a dolphin English, but its true significance has been buried in sexual innuendo
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Water that stays liquid below freezing probed by lasers
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 2:00)
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Drops of pure water supercooled to -46°C have been probed for the first time after being hit with speedy laser blasts in a vacuum
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Human brain's ultimate barrier to open for first time
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 2:00)
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It's neuroscience's final frontier. Tiny bubbles will open the blood-brain barrier to sneak drugs into tumours– and we might treat Alzheimer's the same way
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Today on New Scientist
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 1:30)
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All the latest on newscientist.com: anthropologist tackles Alzheimer's, Middle Eastern borders, smell-o-message, war on pain, brainwave sync and more
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Saturn's largest moon was once a titanic snowball
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-6-19 0:37)
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If Titan sometimes freezes over entirely, it would help to solve the moon's methane mystery, and a probe to Pluto may offer the first test of the idea
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