Thursday, January 3, 2013

Today on New Scientist: 2 January 2013

The world to burn as much coal as oil by 2017

Capturing the emissions of the most polluting fossil fuel is the only hope of reducing climate change

Humble coin toss thrust to heart of multiverse debate

At stake is cosmologists' ability to calculate which, of an infinite number of parallel universes, is the one that we inhabit

Simulators prepare newbie pilots for flying car era

Flying cars of the future will need safe software at the helm and a simulator is showing what that code needs to do

Ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming fast

The vulnerable ice sheets are warming as fast as anywhere else on Earth, threatening massive sea-level rises

NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit

Robot spacecraft could snag a space rock and drag it back to the moon for astronauts to explore and study

Earthworms roped into making quantum dots

Fed the right raw materials, earthworms can churn out tiny chunks of semiconductor material with the ability to fluoresce

LHC to stir up hot particle soup before 2013 shut down

Starting this month, the particle collider will smash protons into lead ions in a single magnetic ring to learn more about the early universe

Shell oil rig runs aground in Arctic

In another setback for Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic, one of its two drilling rigs has grounded on an Alaskan island

Tricksy type: how fonts can mess with your mind

Fonts are not just about aesthetics - they affect the way we digest information and can even sway our opinions, as Sally Adee discovers

Stone-Age cinema: Cave art conceals first animations

Watch the first motion pictures emerge from an analysis of ancient cave drawings

'Insane' Antarctic winter crossing like space flight

Medic Mike Stroud will monitor expedition members in the coldest season of the coldest place on Earth - and explains just how many things could go wrong

Skidology: Winter research that lets things slide

Getting kids on crutches to fall over inside a giant ice cube sounds like cruelty, but it could lead to better cold-weather gear for everyone

2013 Smart Guide: Arctic melt will spark weird weather

Melting, rather than warming, will be the big climate issue of 2013 as we head to the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment

In-depth 2012: The best long reads of the year

Dig deeper, look closer and think harder - these articles are perfect for curling up with a glowing tablet for a good long read

2012 review: The year in health science

Revisit the year's top health stories, including the first non-hormonal male pill, and the link between Tutankhamun's death and the origin of monotheism

Marvellous mistletoe: Giving forests the kiss of life

Forget its reputation as a parasitic tree killer, mistletoe is an unsung hero of the woods, says Stephanie Pain

2012 review: The year in the physical sciences

The Higgs boson showed up but that's not all - 2012 saw good news for Schr?dinger's cat, a ruling on pi's copyrightability and much more

Getting sloshed: It's the way you walk

Can we beat the unholy alliance between human gait and the physics of drinks containers and kill our spills, asks Bob Holmes

2013 Smart Guide: Curiosity to reach Mars mother lode

Around September Curiosity will arrive at the base of a mountain that offers the best chances of finding signs of habitability on the Red Planet

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