Blog Profile / Short Sharp Science
| URL : | http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / General Science | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3477 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12.7 | |
| Archived Since: | February 24, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Today on New Scientist: 18 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how ancient code unmasked a cannibal star, living in a simulation, ultimate gamer's chair, and more
Colourful claw of tiny ocean predator
See a prizewinning photo of the claw of a Phronima: a tiny marine predator whose size belies its ferocity
Today on New Scientist: 17 December 2012
All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: your second brain, leaked IPCC report, NASA's lunar demolition derby, and more
Megacity China: the ultimate in urban migration
You would be forgiven for thinking that this "spreading pancake" of a city is the dream-limbo city featured in the movie Inception
CERN becomes first pure physics voice in UN chorus
If CERN observes the proceedings of the United Nations, will it change the outcome?
Today on New Scientist: 14 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: rethinking allergies, the end of race history, leaked IPC report, mysterious star deaths, and more
Global cuteness increased by discovery of new loris
Three new species of Bornean slow loris have been discovered, quadrupling the world's cuteness index
Today on New Scientist: 13 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com: drone revolution, killer asteroids, the alien game theory dilemma, laser rock drills, oldest cave etching, and more
Violent beauty at the end of an Alaskan glacier
You can almost hear the crash of ice on water in this stunning image of an ice sheet calving off the Chenega glacier in Alaska
Today on New Scientist: 12 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: emperor penguins' last march, diagnosing mental illness inside the skull, earliest galaxies, and more
Data art shows what years of computer use looks like
Marcin Ignac's art shows what two-and-a-half years in front of a computer looks like in a series of colourful visualisations
Today on New Scientist: 11 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: synthetic biology, evolution of languages, new drug for depression, and more
Out-of-season's greetings from the Arctic frost flowers
Season's regards from an icy meadow in the Arctic, but it's no winter wonderland and please don't dash out into it
Today on New Scientist: 10 December 2012
All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including carbon-negative fuel, Patrick Moore, how Einstein discovered dark energy, Doha, and more
Seeing the Amazon in a new light will help to save it
Not a candy forest but the Peruvian Amazon as seen by an instrument-laden aircaft that is mapping tropical ecology in unprecedented detail
Today on New Scientist: 9 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: fly me to the moon (for $1bn), dawn of photosynthesis, space-time waves, Kaggle's boss, and more
Twin spacecraft map the mass of the man in the moon
Two satellites called Ebb and Flow have revealed the fine variations in the moon's surface with the most detailed gravity map ever
Today on New Scientist: 6 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: NASA's next Mars rover, the night-time world from space, US dash for gas, Kyoto protocol redux, and more
Deep inside a mouse's ear, a swirling galaxy of cells
The winner of the GenArt 2012 image competition reveals the power of deep genetic sequencing to understand deafness
Today on New Scientist: 5 December 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the world's sinking cities, psychiatry's failures, carbon emissions rising, premature babies, and more