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Today on New Scientist: 6 May 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 2:17)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: dwarf black holes, unnatural selection, and kung-fu robots kicking ass
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Friday Illusion: How your brain knows what's next
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 2:09)
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New research helps explain how a decades-old illusion works– and how your brain might predict motion
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CultureLab Loves... 6 May 2011 edition
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 1:56)
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CultureLab's pick of this week's science-inspired arts, books and culture
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Unnatural selection: Living with pollution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 1:45)
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Other species may evolve to cope with the poisons we dump into air, land and water? but we may pay a price, says Michael Le Page (full text available to subscribers)
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Cultural collaborators twisting through space and time
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:33)
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Beyond Entropy, a collaboration between scientists, artists and architects, reconfigures how we think about energy
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Infant recall: The birth of memory
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:13)
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Babies absorb information like a sponge. So why do we struggle to recall our first few years? (full text available to subscribers)
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Out-of-Africa migration selected novelty-seeking genes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-7 0:09)
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As humans migrated around 50,000 years ago, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness
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'Dwarf' black holes might help explain dark matter
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:45)
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Black holes might come in more sizes than small, medium and large? if so, mini black holes could contribute to the universe's mysterious dark matter
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Obama is right to withhold photos of bin Laden's corpse
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:11)
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The US president is showing astute caution in refusing to release the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse, says Andrew Silke
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Breath, body parts and what lies beneath
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-5-6 23:10)
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Helen Pynor uses real organs in her work, but avoids sensationalism to take a delicate look at the body parts we take for granted
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