Thursday, March 29, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 28 March 2012

Antibiotics may make you fat

The widespread use of antibiotics may permanently change our gut flora, increasing our risk of obesity and damaging our immune systems

Fossil raindrops reveal Earth's early atmosphere

Analysis of a fossilised rain shower suggests air density on early Earth was similar to now, confounding explanations for the "faint sun paradox"

New search tool to unlock Wikipedia

Powerful new software called Swipe could handle complex queries that today's keyword search engines stumble over

Nano star fruit could help diagnose cancer

A new type of gold nanorod may help researchers detect biomarkers in low concentrations and could lead to improved disease diagnosis

US military wants to hack foreign game consoles

The US Department of the Navy has tasked a company with creating tools to extract private data from video game consoles

Bacteria could be significant cause of OCD

A form of obsessive-compulsive disorder in children may be linked to Streptococcus bacteria - trials of a treatment have begun

Methane cuts could delay climate change by 15 years

An atmosphere with less methane would encourage plants to soak up more carbon dioxide, buying precious time to solve the climate problem

Kinect boss on the future of computer interfaces

Microsoft's Andrew Blake is amazed by thought-controlled computers and wonders if we might, one day, use a killer app to think like Meryl Streep

What the theory of everything might look like

Watch a new animation that uses a mathematical pattern to show how all forces and particles could be unified

Mash-up aids translation of obscure languages

An invented language makes it easier to translate sentences into lesser-known tongues

Fracking could foil carbon capture plans

Hydraulic fracturing brings us lots of natural gas, but it could also ruin the rock formations needed to store carbon dioxide underground

Going green won't kill jobs during hard times

Claims that environmental regulations will worsen unemployment are false. When the economy is struggling, the opposite is true, says economist Josh Bivens

An insider's view on the big bang

Astronomer Chris Impey provides an impressive guide to the history of the cosmos in How it Began: A time-traveler's guide to the universe

Wake-up call: The battle to control sleep

Henry Nicholls sets out to uncover the truth about his condition, only to find that drug companies are more interested in inducing narcolepsy than curing it

Dolphin social networks are unusually open

Male dolphins don't live in tribes, but they form complex alliances with each other

North Sea gas leak venting from newly disturbed source

The gas pouring out of the Elgin wellhead off Aberdeen isn't coming from the gas reservoir itself, but from a previously unknown source in the rock above

Forget tracer bullets - NASA now has tracer rockets

Pulling off five launches in as many minutes is something to crow about, which is what NASA has been doing after the successful launch of its ATREX mission

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