Thursday, March 22, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 20 March 2012

Bouquet of rotting meat

Titan arum, "the corpse plant" in Cornell University's greenhouses has bloomed for the first time - be glad our photo isn't in smell-o-vision

One-Minute Physics: Why Einstein rotated time

Watch an animation that shows how special relativity changed physics

Trousers with attitude show resistance is futile

The wrong trousers - new technology takes control of where you walk at FACT Liverpool's Robots and Avatars exhibition

Mothers of autistic children are out of pocket

Mums of children with autism earn 35 per cent less than those whose children have other conditions, and half as much as mums with healthy kids

Fibre optics to connect Japan to the UK - via the Arctic

Looping fibre optics from Japan under the Arctic ice will improve internet performance - but is easier said than done

Hungry black holes eat two courses at once

How do some black holes grow to be billions of times the mass of the sun? Perhaps they funnel in food by tilting their plates

11 particles for 11 physics puzzles

What is dark matter? Or gravity? Why is the universe so smooth? There's a particle for every conundrum, say Valerie Jamieson and Richard Webb

Without free will, what do our choices mean?

In Free Will, Sam Harris dismantles the idea, but argues that our decisions still matter - a refreshing antidote to the nihilism the debate tends to produce

Garden gnome goes nomad to showcase gravity

From the South Pole to the Hawaii, this gnome must be weighed at every destination he visits to demonstrate how gravity varies with Earth's bulginess

Is 'pink slime' being unfairly demonised?

"Pink slime" beef may go off the menu for US schools but prominent industry figures say there's nothing to worry about

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