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Zoologger: Horror fly returns from the dead
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 20:05)
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The bone skipper, which feeds on rotten flesh and was the first fly to be declared extinct because of human activity, has made a surprise comeback
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Think or swim: Can we hold back the oceans?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 19:03)
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Not even massive geoengineering projects will stop the seas' relentless rise. Maybe it's time we found somewhere to put all that excess water
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Brain-hacking art: Twisting mirrors, unreal shadows
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 18:22)
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Why don't we notice impossible lighting and unlikely reflections in realistic-looking paintings? The answer is all about speed
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Retinal cone cells transplanted into blind mice
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 8:01)
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Cone cells vital for colour vision have been transplanted successfully for the first time, taking us a step closer to restoring vision to the blind
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Mars moon may have formed like our own
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:10)
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The Martian moon Phobos was thought to be a captured asteroid, but new observations suggest it coalesced from debris blasted off its mother planet, like Earth's moon
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Development goals: five years to save the world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:05)
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The Millennium Development Goals invite cynicism like few other global agreements, but science-based interventions are working
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Today on New Scientist: 21 September 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: transgenic superspuds, daisies that offer flies sex, and the hack that caused chaos on Twitter
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Robots on TV: 'AquaPad' controls robot dive buddy
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 1:53)
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Divers exploring shipwrecks and underwater caves could control robot assistants more safely and easily with a waterproof tablet computer
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Large Hadron Collider spies hints of infant universe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 1:47)
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The LHC has revealed hints of what may be the hot, dense state of matter thought to have filled the universe in its first nanoseconds
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How mouse hack caused chaos on Twitter
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 0:17)
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Many Twitter users briefly lost control of their accounts today, after a bug appeared on the social networking site
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