Friday, November 4, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 4th November 2011


See gull take on eagle in mid-air piggyback attack

A remarkable image of a white-tailed eagle under attack proves that gulls are utterly fearless

Friday Illusion: Pattern causes temporary blindness

Watch how a flickering pattern can cause the illusion of invisibility

Picture password protects your account from phishing

A new graphical password is easy to use on legitimate sites, but hard to remember when you're faced with a phishing attack

Astrophile: Attack of the mystery green blobs

Four years ago, a schoolteacher found a cosmic cloud inexplicably glowing. Now we've found lots - and they are telling us about black holes' feeding habits

Visit to the coral gardeners' seabed lab

The Aquarius Reef Base is a research lab like no other, offering an unmatched opportunity to research coral ecosystems, and test coral farming

The case for science in Africa

Africa is plagued by poverty but can't afford not to invest in science, insists Martyn Poliakoff

Mars 500 'marsonauts' emerge eager to try real thing

Seventeen months of isolation is over for the six "marsonauts" who have been locked away in a simulated spacecraft in Moscow

Bang! A new exhibition reveals some secrets of fireworks

What gives fireworks their pretty colours? What makes a banger go bang? All this and more is revealed in a new exhibition for Bonfire Night

Skin 'sees' the light to protect against sunshine

Our skin begins producing melanin within minutes of exposure to UV light - now we know how

Seaways across Antarctica could open in 1000 years

As Antarctica melts, seaways will open up between oceans that are currently separated by the ice sheet

Feedback: Don't believe your eyes

Arks, gardens and creation, many hands make particle physics work, how not to do calorie restriction, and more

Behind the scenes of 15 great discoveries

Istv?n Hargittai provides an intimate account of the hardships and tribulations overcome in the name of scientific progress in Drive and Curiosity

How to clean up a pond of nuclear waste

Damon Johnston tells Big Wide World how his team at the nuclear reprocessing plant in Sellafield are decommissioning a storage pond where waste has been dumped since the 1950s

Gamma rays reveal youngest stellar dervish

Millisecond pulsars spin hundreds of times a second, but it's not clear how they form - finds like this one could settle the mystery


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