Friday, July 20, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 20 July 2012

Syria follows Egypt and disconnects from the internet

Syria severed all internet connections to the outside world earlier this afternoon. The outage may signal a shift in strategy by the government

Friday Illusion: Brain builds swinging tower of Pisa

See how a pattern of lines can be turned into tilting columns in a new animation that exploits a classic brain trick

Smart league lets fans track a player's heartbeat

From the 2013 season, players at all 19 Major League Soccer teams will wear a chip that gathers information on their heart rate, speed and position

Chirp lets you send a weblink with a tune

A new service uses encoded noise to send links or pictures to someone's smartphone

The lab that lets you experiment from home

A new Google exhibition at the Science Museum in London lets you play instruments over the internet

Nuclear fuel rods removed from Japan's Fukushima plant

Some 16 months after meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operations to remove the nuclear fuel rods from the site have finally begun

Feedback: The snorkel, demystified

Swimming in booze, sympathetic typing please, sidestepping safely and start of a specialism, gods willing

Pluto's not a planet - it's much odder than that

The discovery of Pluto's fifth moon puts the distant world into a category all of its own

The ascent of space stations from Salyut to the ISS

Since 1971, we have enjoyed ever more sophisticated orbiting homes-from-home - and they have revealed the challenges that interplanetary travel will present

Pharaoh's playground revealed by missing fractals

The Dahshur necropolis in Egypt has mostly been wiped out by 4500 years of neglect, but fractal geography has revealed its vastness

The yuck factor: The surprising power of disgust

From politics to commerce to sex, the "forgotten emotion" of disgust can affect you in subtle ways. Alison George holds her nose and investigates

Monkey manoeuvres reveal how the brain spurs actions

The neural activity that prepares an arm to reach for objects could harnessed for the development of mind-controlled prosthetic limbs

Chemical bond discovered that only exists in space

The bond should emerge in the intense magnetic fields of white dwarf stars: its discovery could help us better understand these bodies

Sumatran zig-zag earthquake answers seismology puzzle

We now know that a giant quake off the coast of Indonesia in April was one of the most complex ever recorded

Dark matter no-show hobbles elegant particle theory

A highly sensitive detector has failed to find WIMPS, dealing a blow to the popular addition to the standard model known as supersymmetry

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