Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 6 December 2011

Scientists stumble upon long-lost bumblebee

A bumblebee not seen since 1956 has been rediscovered after being spotted on a roadside in New Mexico

Durban climate deal is limping, but not dead yet

As ministers arrive in Durban for the final days of talks, a successor to the Kyoto protocol could still be agreed - but what will it look like?

Smart image editor adds fake objects to photos

See how software can realistically alter an image by simulating lighting conditions

Abused children's brains work like soldiers' do

Brain scans show that children from violent homes detect threats in the same way that soldiers do

Aquanauts prepare for asteroid landing

Watch aquanauts learn to move underwater on a simulated asteroid surface

Inhuman Microphone app lets protesters spread the word

A new iPhone app replicates Occupy Wall Street's human microphone - letting protesters pass messages

Durban 2011: Urgent warning on tropical deforestation

Tropical deforestation contributes roughly twice as much to global warming as recent estimates suggest, but talks to halt it have stalled

A nation of willing guinea pigs?

Opening up the records of the UK's health service could benefit the health of people round the world

Surface Tension: Facing the future of water

Print words with water droplets, map the world in sponges and trace a city's future waterline in chalk at the Surface Tension exhibition in Dublin

Science leads the fight for free speech

Science thrives on freedom of expression and must be at the forefront of defending it, says Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville

No, global warming hasn't stopped

Like a game of scientific whack-a-mole, some nonsensical statements just keep bouncing back - like the claim that "global warming stopped in 1998"

Smallest habitable world around sun-like star found

The planet Kepler-22b, which may be rocky, is just 2.4 times as wide as Earth and sits right in the middle of the "Goldilocks" zone around its star

Chimp brains may be hard-wired to evolve language

Synaesthesia-like abilities in chimps provide clues to how our early ancestors evolved their first words

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