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Zoologger: Sympathy for the piranha
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 22:47)
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Thanks to Theodore Roosevelt piranhas have a fearsome reputation, but there are only two occasions when they will attack humans
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Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 18:58)
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Using desalination to slake the world's thirst has been an uphill struggle, but now we're learning to go with the flow
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Stop wasting food, save the world's energy
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 18:48)
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The scandal of food waste is even worse when you consider how much energy is being thrown away, say Sheril Kirshenbaum and Michael Webber
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Fossilised mind control, 48 million years ago
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 8:01)
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See a carpenter ant in the throes of a fungus-induced death grip– the result of an evolutionary arms race that has been running for many millions of years
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Chimp culture, chimp genes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 8:01)
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From knuckle-knocking to slapping, chimpanzees' different behaviours are culturally determined&ndash or are they?
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Lasers could make virtual particles real
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 3:55)
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Ghostly particles that, according to quantum mechanics, pop in and out of existence all the time could be captured in large numbers by future lasers
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Found: World's oldest animal fossils
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 2:03)
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Fossilised sponges dating from 650 million years ago add support to the theory that life kick-started Snowball Earth
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Today on New Scientist: 17 August 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com at a glance, including: monkeys that console each other, rabid bat attacks and a tron-style ship restoration
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Race to save Pakistan's agriculture
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 1:40)
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The country must find a way to clear out its irrigation system and plant the winter wheat crop
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Milky Way magnets solve cosmic ray conundrum
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 0:58)
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Our galaxy's magnetic fields could explain why some cosmic rays hitting Earth are heavier than expected
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