Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 27 March 2012

Creating collapsible structures with no moving parts

A new 3D shape dubbed the buckliball could be used to make collapsible buildings or new kinds of drug containers

Out of Peru, the plant that tackles toothache

After having her painful molars treated by Amazonian villagers, anthropologist Fran?oise Barbira Freedman is bringing their painkilling plant to the masses

Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy

Microorganisms are in a constant, never-ending struggle: to make someone else do the hard work

Pressure to tighten up antibiotics on US farms

Farmers in the US may soon be banned from giving antibiotics to healthy animals to prevent spread of drug resistance

Neutrino funding crunch could be good news for protons

Hard times for the US's largest neutrino experiment could have an unexpected upside, speeding up the search for the elusive decay of a proton

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

A marvellous new feat of claymation brings together Darwin and a band of hapless buccaneers

Arctic sea ice may have passed crucial tipping point

The ice has not recovered from a record low in 2007 - ice-free summers could soon become a regular feature across most of the Arctic Ocean

Searching for the Venice of the Nile

A project seeks to reveal how Egypt's pharaohs engineered the Nile landscape to turn their capital, Thebes, into an ancient Venice

Mapping the human cost of Syria's uprising

The Syria Tracker website uses automated data mining and crowdsourced human intelligence to estimate the death toll in Syria's bloody conflict

Top three mysteries of human evolution

Watch an animation that follows the leading explanations for some of the most puzzling human attributes

Outback to outer space: The world's largest telescope

The Square Kilometre Array will probe the cosmic dark ages - and the Australians say they have just the spot for it. Anil Ananthaswamy goes to see for himself

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