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CultureLab loves... 22 April 2011 edition
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 1:37)
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What CultureLab loves in the world of science, art and culture this week
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Green Machine: Using saltiness to make power
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 1:03)
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Using the difference in salinity between fresh water and seawater could supply 13 per cent of the world's power needs, in theory
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Galactic liaisons on Hubble anniversary
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 1:00)
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An image of two interacting galaxies contains clues about a past rendez-vous and hints of a third hidden object
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The secret superpower of the cockroach
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 0:43)
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You don't need to be tough to conquer the world's kitchens, but you do need one extraordinary ability, discovers Wendy Zukerman (full text available to subscribers)
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How to be happy: The optimist manifesto
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 0:26)
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Psychology can and should do more than reduce mental suffering, argues positive psychology guru Martin Seligman in his persuasive book Flourish
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Build complex objects from Lego-like blocks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 23:53)
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Watch a new digital system assemble complex stuctures from interlocking blocks
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Immortality of all cancer cells exposed as a myth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 23:01)
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Only aggressive cancer cells that spread have the ability to live forever, providing new clues to the best treatment
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Covert hard drive fragmentation embeds a spy's secrets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 22:50)
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A way of hiding messages stored on a hard disc by fragmenting them avoids arousing suspicion by using obvious encryption
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Feedback: When roads burst into song
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 22:28)
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Terrible driving music, the National Union of Stew Departments, pyramid telling, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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25 years after Chernobyl, we don't know how many died
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 21:13)
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A quarter of a century after the world's worst nuclear accident, experts still can't agree how many people it killed
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