Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 7 August 2012

Drug tests catch Olympic athlete eight years late

Belarus's hammer champion Ivan Tsikhan has withdrawn from the Olympics after a sample taken from him in Athens in 2004 showed signs of drug-taking

Discordant bits and single photons boost quantum power

Exploiting the weirdness inherent to the quantum world in order to create new technologies just got a little easier, thanks to two intriguing breakthroughs

What do you call an iris with no name? You decide

Ever fancied naming a plant after yourself? Or perhaps you'd prefer to immortalise a beloved pet? Well, either way, now's your chance

Where next? Curiosity's scientific priorities on Mars

NASA's rover has landed in a geologist's paradise, and could discover if Mars had the ingredients to support life. We look at the possible itinerary

The trouble with health-tracking gadgets

How will doctors react when patients come brandishing reams of data from their new self-tracking technology?

Google Earth for cells lets biologists zoom in

An entire zebrafish embryo has been mapped to nanometre resolution, letting biologists zoom in or out to examine details on different scales

First video captures Curiosity's descent onto Mars

Watch stop-motion video of the last few minutes of the rover's journey to Mars

A play that could go 84 million ways

Chatbots take to the stage in a piece recreating a famous debate between two heavyweight intellectuals

Five civilisations that climate change may have doomed

The decline of many great civilisations, and periods of war and unrest, have coincided with changes in the climate

The intelligent textbook that helps students learn

Want to know more about your subject? Type in your own question and artificially intelligent software will construct a new page to answer your query

Quantify thyself: Tracking your life from food to mood

Track your every move, brainwave and bodily function with a new breed of personal gadgets and you could become fitter, healthier and happier

'Paparazzi on Mars' snap Curiosity parachuting

An orbiting high-resolution camera was on the lookout as the Curiosity rover made its daring descent onto the Martian surface

Brain might not stand in the way of free will

A classic experiment that suggests the brain is aware of our urge to act spontaneously before we are might have been misinterpreted

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