Saturday, January 28, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 27 January 2012

Cane toads lose their killer touch in east Australia

Australia's native species die when they eat poisonous cane toads - but not the blue-tongue lizards of eastern Australia

Creativity takes teamwork

What does creativity in science look like? The most creative scientists may be those that collaborate with others from different disciplines, concludes a panel

Astrophile: Picture yourself on a sandboard on Titan

Taking in plastic sand, marmalade skies and methane rivers, a tour of Titan's sand dunes would be as trippy as a late Beatles song

Virtual trees sway in wind just like the real thing

Animators will soon be able to construct startlingly realistic sylvan beauty in movies and video games with a new system for generating 3D virtual trees

Repeated drought in east Africa may prompt aid rethink

Rainfall patterns over east Africa have changed in a way that makes severe droughts more likely - aid agencies need to rethink the way they operate

Nintendo Wii U to have touch-free payment system

Nintendo's next console will have a near-field communications (NFC) chip, opening up the possibility of new kinds of games and new ways to pay for them.

Let's give science a bad name in schools

The best way to get teens interested in science is to wash its dirty laundry in public, says Michael Brooks

Friday Illusion: Einstein's face emerges from tapestry

Watch knitted stripes reveal a portrait of the famous physicist when viewed from an angle

Learning without remembering: Brain lab goes to school

Insights from brain science are finally coming into the classroom with a method based on seeing patterns, finds Peter Aldhous

Arsenic life does not exist after all

Controversial claims that bacteria can exchange phosphorus in their DNA with arsenic have failed to be replicated

Go with the flow system

In Design in Nature by Adrian Bejan and J. Peder Zane a new theory of nature is mooted, but is the idea stretched beyond its reach?

Zoologger: How a blurry-eyed spider pounces on target

The Adanson's house jumper is the first animal found using out-of-focus vision to judge the distance to its victims

The science of the golden spider-silk cape

A spider-silk cape that took one million spiders to make is a stunning example of nature's beauty, but silk has more to offer than a flashy outfit

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