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Today on New Scientist: 10 December 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: steampunk lego, designer snowflakes and glowing scorpions
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Moment of birth captured with MRI scanner
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 3:00)
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A woman has given birth whilst being scanned in an MRI machine, the first time the moment of birth has been captured using MRI
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Monty Python inspires the first space-matured cheese
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 2:45)
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If you were launching a spacecraft on a historic voyage, what would you choose as your secret payload?
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Scorpions glow in the dark to detect moonlight
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 2:00)
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The mysterious green glow that scorpions emit in ultraviolet light may help them decide when the night is too bright for them to go out safely
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Online photo coincidences betray your friends
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 1:38)
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Strong clues to users' social ties lurks in the metadata uploaded with photographs to Flickr
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Haitian cholera strain could dominate the Americas
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 1:12)
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Deadlier toxin poses a renewed threat even to countries that already harbour cholera
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Human brain stem cells grown in rats
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-11 0:55)
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Baby rat brains work just fine after implants of adult human stem cells, bringing treatments for damaged brains a step closer
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Feedback: British Airways's retro resurrection
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-10 23:32)
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Recursive banking, telecoms gobbledegook, probiotic toilet cleaner, slippery thrones, gravity needs space, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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Toy-de-force: Inside the steampunk Lego lab
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-10 22:00)
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History's greatest fantastical contraptions– the difference engine and the Antikythera mechanism– are back, with a playful twist (full text available to subscribers)
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Designer snowflakes grown in the lab
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-12-10 21:36)
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A time-lapse video is helping scientists understand why every snowflake is unique
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