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Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 9:01)
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In Hollywood westerns, the bad guy always draws first, but gets shot. Niels Bohr had a theory to explain why, and it's now been tested
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Star students, beware bipolar disorder
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 9:01)
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Straight-A Swedes are more likely to become bipolar than their average peers
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NASA satellite could pave way for policing CO2 emissions
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 8:29)
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A replacement for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, lost during launch last year, could test technologies needed to enforce future climate treaties
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Large Hadron Collider to jump to maximum energy
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 3:56)
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Rather than first ramping up to intermediate energy levels, the accelerator will operate at more modest levels before jumping to its maximum design energy
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Today on New Scientist: 2 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 3:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: why our knowledge might not survive, why water vapour is a worse climate villain than we thought, and tiny dino death pits
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Hybrid video could lighten the search and rescue load
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 2:30)
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Combining infrared and visible video streams from search drones makes it easier for rescue teams to interpret the images
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Are stem cell scientists sabotaging rivals' work?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 2:06)
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An international group of senior stem cell researchers this week warned that it may be happening, although they are short of evidence
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US budget gives nuclear power a yea and big oil a nay
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 1:47)
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Nuclear power got a boost and big oil took a hit yesterday when US President Barack Obama submitted his 2011 federal budget proposal to Congress
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Wanted: elderly human guinea pigs
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 1:35)
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Clinical trials must include more older volunteers if thousands of lives are to be saved, say researchers who have drawn up a charter calling for such a change
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Set in stone or written to disc: data through the ages
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 1:12)
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Each of us generates, processes and consumes more data than ever before? but by some measures that information is also more ephemeral than ever before
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