Publication: New Scientist

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University of Sydney
University of Sydney

Early weaning suggests Neanderthals matured faster

NEANDERTHALS may have begun weaning their babies at 7 months, and ceased breastfeeding altogether 7 months later.Manish Arora from the University of Sydney in Australia and colleagues discovered that levels of barium in tooth enamel rise while a child ... [Published New Scientist - 12 hours ago]
First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Play your way to work with interactive games

A simple interactive video game you can play on a tram or a train carriage will make your journey pass more quickly – and help make new friends too ... [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
Entities: Video Games
First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports
University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow

Ghostly pictures made in 3D – minus the camera

Read more: SNAPPING a picture with a camera that doesn't exist is pretty spooky, but doing it in stereo is even more so. A strange kind of photography known as ghost imaging has been made to work in three dimensions.Matthew Edgar of the University of ... [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports
Google Inc
Google Inc

Like it or not, this is the age of ubiquitous computing

WHEN did you last look at your phone? If you own a smartphone, it was probably just a short time ago. A glance around any commuter train will confirm how captivated many of us are by our digital companions.So much so that it's supposedly taking a toll ... [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports
NASA
NASA

Long may science continue to inspire poetry

"KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and West… I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet.Marcy's impassioned pastiche of W. H. ... [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
Entities: Tycho Brahe, Exoplanet, NASA
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Enigma Number 1750

Using the number grid shown (A) it is possible to generate nine-digit numbers in the following way: Start on any square and then move horizontally, vertically or diagonally to an adjacent square that hasn't already been visited. Repeat until all nine ... [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports
Purdue University
Purdue University

Earth's tides are shoving the moon away faster

EARTH is shoving the moon away faster now than it has done for most of the past 50 million years, says a new model for the way tides influence the lunar orbit. The result helps solve a mystery concerning the moon's age that has long vexed astronomers ... [Published New Scientist - 9 hours ago]
Entities: Purdue University
First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Swarm of drones to give early warning of flash floods

FLASH floods are quick and deadly. At least 13 people died when a surge hit parts of Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Two years earlier, 123 were killed when thunderstorms dumped rain over arid land to the east of the Red Sea port of Jeddah, hitting the ... [Published New Scientist - 9 hours ago]
First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Atomic weights revision changes periodic table

A magnificent period piece from mid-19th-century Russia has just received a bit of a renovation. Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to their atomic weights."Your chemistry teacher probably ... [Published New Scientist - 7 hours ago]
First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope

Magazine issue 2918. Subscribe and saveFor similar stories, visit the Energy and Fuels Topic GuideWAVE energy hasn't had a great time of it in recent years. Despite advances in research, getting wave power up and running in any meaningful commercial sense ... [Published New Scientist - 10 hours ago]
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So much hot air

New Scientist full online access is exclusive to subscribers. Registered users are given limited access to content, find out more. To read the full article, log in or subscribe to New Scientist. ... [Published New Scientist - 10 hours ago]
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Drake equation for alien life gets an upgrade

Once you are registered, New Scientist will send you our weekly newsletter, as well as occasional relevant information via email from New Scientist about our content, services, products, events, offers and competitions. Please read our privacy policy ... [Published New Scientist - 12 hours ago]

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"KEPLER was my North, my South, my East and West… I thought Kepler would last forever: I was wrong." So lamented astronomer Geoff Marcy on discovering that the space telescope might have spotted its last exoplanet
Long may science continue to inspire poetry [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
..."The [IUPAC] commission is going to be meeting again this year in August," says Coplen. "I expect there's going to be several more elements that will change."
Atomic weights revision changes periodic table [Published New Scientist - 7 hours ago]
"These are fast-moving, violent events that are hard to predict" says Burrell Montz of East Carolina University in Grenville. "This would be awesome if it works."
Swarm of drones to give early warning of flash floods [Published New Scientist - 9 hours ago]
...is potentially an added experimental success for string theory and eternal inflation," says Daniel Harlow, a physicist at Princeton University. "We need to understand it better – [but] the fact that it potentially explains something is motivation to understand it better."
String theory may limit space brain threat [Published New Scientist - 12 hours ago]

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Long may science continue to inspire poetry [Published New Scientist - 5 hours ago]
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Tracing the roots of human morality in animals [Published New Scientist - May 20 2013]
A million minutes to rebuild the Large Hadron C... [Published New Scientist - May 20 2013]
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B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimer's [Published New Scientist - May 20 2013]
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