Monday, June 25, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 25 June 2012

Corporate money men fill the political void at Rio+20

It may have been a damp squib politically, but business leaders at the Earth Summit in Rio were on hand to commit cash for UN green initiatives

Is there an explanation for existence?

In Why Does the World Exist? Jim Holt spans physics, philosophy and literature to examine the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing

Psychedelic nano-art in oils and ferrofluids

Ferrofluids - a mix of oil and nano-sized iron particles - are normally used in computer hard drives, but their weird properties can make for great liquid art

Want terabit internet? Get light to do the twist

Twisting individual beams of light in different ways allows more data to be transmitted in the same signal

Ultrasound pill helps the medicine go down

A swallowable ultrasound device called uPill could end the need for painful daily injections

Life: is it inevitable or just a fluke?

If life arises wherever conditions are right, why haven't we heard from aliens yet? Biochemist Nick Lane thinks he might have an answer

Sea-level rise accelerates faster on US east coast

The Atlantic coast of North America is a hotspot of sea level rise, suggesting that a major Atlantic current is slowing down

Threatwatch: Taliban action risks polio resurgence

Which is more likely to derail the decades-long battle to rid the world of polio? The Taliban, or the financial crisis?

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