Saturday, March 17, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 16 March 2012

Friday Illusion: Star Trek effect beams triple trick

See a new illusion that fools the brain in three different ways at once

Largest eyes give squid a big advantage

Colossal squid have the biggest eyes in the animal kingdom, because they need to spot predatory sperm whales

Astrophile: Flaring fairy lights of Saturn's F ring

Saturn's outer ring flares and fades and sometimes bursts with sparkling spots, a light-show that may be down to exploding snowballs

A regular in the Antarctic

To research her book about Antarctica, Gabrielle Walker visited the remote content five times - and overcame her aversion to penguins

Is the LHC throwing away too much data?

The accelerator cannot save all of the data it takes, and one researcher worries it may be tossing out clues to new physics

Don't compare Fukushima to Chernobyl

It's time to revise the way nuclear incidents are rated. Failure to do so plays into the hands of anti-nuclear propagandists, says Don Higson

How do Olympians come back from devastating injury?

A new exhibition at London's Hunterian Museum shows the incredible anatomies of elite athletes

Feedback: Illegible demand for legibility

Advice that is easier to take than read, email for life - as long as you die soon, minibar medication, and more

Fruit fly trapped in 'holodeck' fooled by the illusion

See how virtual reality is being used to probe how flies respond to different visual stimuli

The story of language: culture not nature

The cultural foundations of human language is a story very much in the making, says Daniel Everett, because it must see off notions that language is innate

Pregnant women need not worry about cellphone use

Headlines yesterday warned of the effects that cellphone radiation might have on human fetuses - but the threat was wildly exaggerated

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