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Today on New Scientist: 26 July 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the great social network experiment, sneaky dogs that steal food and belly-flopping frogs
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Hire out your spare brainpower, says internet optimist
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 1:40)
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If you spend your time online rather than watching TV, your grey matter can make the world a better place, says Clay Shirky
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Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-27 1:36)
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Spend enough time with your eyes glued to a microscope and you will see some beautiful structure, cell or circuit? here are a few of our favourites
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Perfecting synthetic sounds for animated worlds
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 23:34)
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Computers make marvellous animations, but someone still has to record the sound effects. When software be able to handle that job too?
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All power to the wind - it cuts your electricity bills
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 22:22)
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Why is wind power derided as subsidised, inefficient and uncompetitive when the opposite is true, ask Jérôme Guillet and John Evans
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Bellyflopping frogs shed light on evolution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 19:53)
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Looks like frogs learned to leap before mastering landing, according to a video study of jumping frogs
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We humans can mind-meld too
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 19:42)
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There's now scientific backing– in the form of brain scans– for the old adage that when two people‘click' in conversation, they have a meeting of minds
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Social networks: The great tipping point test
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-26 19:37)
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Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour? one that's revealing the mathematical laws of our lives
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Ways to snoop 'private' web sessions identified
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-25 20:15)
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All major web browsers now offer private modes to hide a user's web history– but the systems aren't foolproof
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Sneaky dogs take food quietly to avoid getting caught
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-25 17:00)
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If their owner isn't watching, dogs go into stealth mode to steal food. It is more evidence that they can tell what others are thinking
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