Monday, January 30, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 30 January 2012

Ant-like robots create complex glowing patterns

Watch unpredictable trails emerge as a robot swarm follows simple rules

Mathematics, looking for a good home

A team of enthusiasts are on the march to set up a museum of mathematics for the masses

Phase-change materials can fix machine memory crunch

New memory that can hold multiple states at once could mean digital information is about more than just 1s and 0s

Taking the long view on the world's energy supplies

Research into the impacts of clean energy technology is needed if we're to avoid repeating our mistakes

Smarter password checker lets you compare with others

A new password checker rates the strength of your password relative to others, rather than following simple rules

Can't find your keys? Your brain's out of sync

Brain systems involved in searching for objects tend to work at different speeds, with the system responsible for perception unable to keep pace

What makes scientists tick?

Psychologist Greg Feist is trying to find out what drives scientific curiosity, from ways of thinking to personality types

White House pressure on Gulf oil leak figures alleged

Advocacy group says that NOAA scientist "lowballed" how much oil was leaking during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, against colleagues' opinion

Bulletproof skin stops a speeding gunshot

Watch skin reinforced with spider silk cushion a superfast projectile

Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever

As energy demand grows, even alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and nuclear fusion could begin to affect the climate. Anil Ananthaswamy reports

Rotblat's pursuit of nuclear peace

Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The life and work of Joseph Rotblat follows the Nobelist from bomb research to anti-bomb campaigning

Wheat will age prematurely in a warmer world

Global warming will have a bad effect on heat-sensitive wheat, slashing yields even more than was originally feared

'Panic button' could help cancer defy drugs

Yeast develops resistance to drugs by shuffling its chromosomes, and the same may apply to cancer

First quantum jiggles detected in solid object

A quantum-mechanical twang has been detected in a bar of silicon - previously such movement had been measured only in particles

Gold-coated ant wields microcog

Don't fear, ants haven't started constructing micromachines: this cog-wielding insect has been sealed in golden armour after death

US voters are less partisan than they think

Democrat and Republican voters' views on touchstone issues are not as strongly polarised as they assume - but mistrustful activists may often swing elections

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