Friday, March 30, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 29 March 2012

Full face transplant promises less risk of rejection

Tongue, jaw and teeth were part of a full graft from scalp to collar bone, including bone-marrow that could help the tissues get established

Glowing fountains on icy Saturn moon

Las Vegas has nothing on Enceladus - a newly released image from the Cassini probe reveals fountains of ice and steam shooting high into space

Superhot gas spirals from massive tornado on the sun

Watch a recent tornado on the sun as it spews unusually hot gas for several hours

Blind man 'drives' Google's autonomous car

Steve Mahan, who is 95 per cent blind, demonstrates the potential future for self-driving cars - by driving to a Taco Bell restaurant

US scepticism - it's been a long time coming

Distrust in science among US conservatives is assumed to be a recent political gambit - the reality is it's been building for decades

New space radars track small but deadly space junk

Space Fence will locate and identify the 200,000 pieces of junk too small to be seen by current radar systems, but still posing a threat to spacecraft

Modified bacteria could get electricity from sewage

Using genetically engineered bacteria to capture energy stored in waste water could make treatment cheap and energy-efficient

Doomsday drivel: promoting nuclear paranoia

The Doomsday Machine oversimplifies complex energy issues and combines nuclear scaremongering with climate change denialism

Clocking galaxy clusters to gauge dark energy

Combining the afterglow of the big bang with a map of galaxy clusters reveals how the clusters move, which could provide a new way to measure dark energy

Sand Flea robot leaps tall buildings in a single bound

The latest gadget from robotics company Boston Dynamics performs mad hops

Entering the world's premier antimatter factory

New Scientist visits CERN's antimatter lab to find out why we should care about this slippery stuff

No toxic hydrogen sulphide in North Sea gas leak

The gas leaking into the sea from the beleaguered Elgin platform is not as deadly as originally feared

Has global warming brought an early summer to the US?

Climate change may have made the unseasonably warm spell that left North America sweltering in March more likely to happen

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