Saturday, February 18, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 17 February 2012

Parasite-plagued flies self-medicate on booze

The problems of fruit flies infested by parasitic wasps disappear when they have booze-soaked meals

Astrophile: 'Missing link' black hole is stress eater

Few middleweight black holes have been found, and a new study suggests why - they may only shine when they binge after a traumatic event

Bending waves of sound and light

Artist Ryoji Ikeda gets visitors physical with sound and light sculptures, and exercises their minds with the art of set theory

'Immortal' Tasmanian devil brings vaccine hope

Genome scans show that fatal facial cancers evolved from a single Tasmanian devil alive around 16 years ago, and reveal possible vaccine targets

Twitter shows chatting doesn't have to be political

Twitter users link to people who share their interests and location - but the divisions are rarely along political lines, according to new research

Did otherworldly music inspire Stonehenge?

The great pillars that make up the stone circle may have been inspired by an auditory illusion that occurs when sound waves cancel each other out

If morality is broken, we can fix it

Some moral rules bring little benefit and can even be harmful. But they are not set in stone, so nothing stops us putting better ones in their place

Friday Illusion: Deceptive motion in Super Mario land

Help us identify the brain trick responsible for Mario's vertical leap to win a prize

Splash dance: Water crisis choreography

The Elixir project combines dance, sculpture and song to explore our relationship with water

Fracking not to blame for shale gas pollution

Ruptured well casings and surface spills are the main culprits, a new report concludes

DNA origami nanorobot takes drug direct to cancer cell

A tiny clam-like robot made out of DNA releases its drug payload only when it meets and identifies a cancer cell

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