Thursday 19 January 2012

Today on New Scientist: 17 January 2012

Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal

When fruit gets scarce for Sumatran orang-utans, some adopt an unusual coping strategy: they hunt slow lorises

Singing mummy found in Valley of the Kings

The first mummy not linked to the ancient Egyptian royal families has been discovered in the Valley of the Kings - a 3000-year-old singer

Death by helium for cosmos-mapping Planck observatory

The last of the spacecraft tasked with measuring the big bang's echo has run out of liquid coolant, effectively ending the mission

Math in a Minute: How to create a spaghetti monster

Watch a chaotic mathematical structure take shape from a single knot

The rationality and repercussions of Instinct

Matthew Maguire's new play explores the collision of scientific reasoning and human instinct

Cruise ships shouldn't capsize so fast, says union

A maritime union is leading calls for the redesign of cruise liners after the fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia

Bitcoin online currency gets new job in web security

The once-trendy virtual currency is being repurposed to secure e-voting systems and circumvent internet censorship

Retina cell growth measured by lasers

The cone cells in the retina grow 24 times faster than fingernails, a laser-based measuring approach finds

Blood test on mother detects fetus's sex at five weeks

A test for the presence of male fetal DNA in early pregnancy identifies sex of a baby with complete accuracy

How many languages can one person speak?

Michael Erard sets out on the trail of hyperpolyglots in Babel No More: The search for the world's most extraordinary language learners

Wikipedia to shut for 24 hours over US anti-piracy laws

The online encyclopedia will take action alongside other high-profile websites by blacking out its pages on Wednesday

FDA bans some - but not all - farmyard antibiotics

The US Food and Drug Administration has restricted the farmyard use of antibiotics to prevent livestock illness, for fear that they may generate superbugs

China set to launch first caps on CO2 emissions

In preparation for future national markets in greenhouse gas emissions, China has ordered seven provinces and cities to set absolute caps on emissions

Roaming quakes: is New York or London due a big one?

Lurking clusters of seismic energy could explain why large earthquakes have occurred where we least expected them

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