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Today on New Scientist: 18 August 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-19 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com including: sympathy for the piranha, a solution to our water crisis, and the scientific way to beef up
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Atom images raise quantum computer hopes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-19 2:00)
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Silicon-beating quantum computers are a step closer now that two teams have imaged ultracold atoms in a grid
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How DNA evidence creates victims of chance
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-19 2:00)
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In the second part of New Scientist 's special investigation, we show that the odds attached to a piece of DNA evidence can vary enormously
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Closing in on the inflaton, mother of the universe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-19 2:00)
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The particle that generated the universe and fuelled its faster-than-light inflation is running out of hiding places
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The risky business of human trials
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-19 0:12)
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Clinical trial "volunteers" take big risks and deserve the same rights as other workers, argues Roberto Abadie in The Professional Guinea Pig
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International rescue: toads airlifted home
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 23:45)
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The tiny Kihansi spray toads are extinct in the wild, but zoos have preserved them and plans are now afoot to restore them to their habitat
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Muscle lab: Bulk up with the science of bodybuilding
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-8-18 23:31)
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Looking to beef up? As research sheds new light on how our muscles work, it may be time to scrap old bodybuilding advice
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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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