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Rubber hand illusion
Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at the same time. More: www.newscientist.com
Best Kinect hacks
Read more: www.newscientist.com Watch out pick of the best Microsoft Kinect hacks.
New Scientist: The Argumentative Ape & Zapping Nuclear Waste 24-5-12 Radio Wammo Show
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NewScientist: Love hurts so bad but feels so good
When you think of something that's terribly painful, what first springs to mind? For many, it's the excruciating torment of a broken heart. But as television presenter Michael Moseley said in the BBC documentary "Pleasure and Pain" - despite the pain, we always come back for more. So why is love so moreish? What is it about love that makes us feel so good? To find out, the documentary turns to New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes, who explains how she used her wedding day as a science experiment. On the day, researcher Paul Zak, head of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies in Claremont, California, took blood from the bride and groom, as well as family members and close friends, before and after the ceremony. He was looking for how levels of oxytocin - the hormone responsible for bonding - changed as the wedding unfolded. It was the first time he was able to investigate this outside his lab, in a real life event. Original link: www.newscientist.com
Acidifying oceans of the future
Natural CO2 vents on the floor of the ocean cause differing levels of acidity. How does this effect marine life? Read more - environment.newscientist.com Find out more at: environment.newscientist.com
Virtual sounds get real
Read more: www.newscientist.com A new computer model can produce realistic crashes and clangs faster than traditional methods.
2000-year-old computer recreated
Read more: www.newscientist.com A working model of an ancient computer was recently recreated in London.
Acrobatic geckos steer with their tails
Read more: www.newscientist.com Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are finding out that a gecko's tail plays an important role in its movement.
Total solar eclipse wows viewers in China
Read more: space.newscientist.com New Scientist reporter Phil McKenna covers the eclipse on 1 August 2008 from China.
New Scientist recreates a robot made by the ancient Greeks
Technology feature editor Ben Crystall explains how he recreated a programmable robot dating from 60AD. More here: www.newscientisttech.com
New Scientist video round-up - December 21, 2007
Find out how a new technique could sharpen up your digital photos, watch a galaxy collide with a particle beam, see the world through the eyes of an owl and more...
New Scientist TV: Killer worms and the musical sun
In this month's round-up of the web's best science and technology videos: the secrets of the toucan's extraordinary bill; the sun's inaudible songs; the fiery end of an deep space explorer; robot insects, electric racers -- and worms that turn cannibal when the going gets tough. More information at www.newscientist.com
New Scientist science and technology news
Science and technology news featuring dancing robots, amazing optical illusions and the latest on depression research. For more science and tech news visit: www.newscientist.com www.newscientisttech.com www.space.newscientist.com www.environment.newscientist.com
Morphing actors
See how software allows an actor's body shape to be morphed on screen. Read more here: www.newscientist.com
World's deepest living fish
Read more: www.newscientist.com Deepest-living fish caught on camera for the first time
New Scientist Halloween round-up - October 31, 2008
Watch a disembodied head that can mimic expressions: technology.newscientist.com See a new 'Frankenphone' with a heartbeat: technology.newscientist.com Find out about a glass table that can make ghostly images appear on the surface: www.newscientist.com
Master stroke
Rowing teams could now beat off the competition using idealised rigs. Read more: www.newscientist.com
Shape-shifting robot forms from magnetic swarm
Read more: technology.newscientist.com See some prototypes of robot swarms created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
New Scientist video round-up - March 20, 2008
Watch acrobatic geckos perform funky moves with their tails: www.newscientist.com See some new rock climbing robots: technology.newscientist.com Find out how paragliders and falcons compare when they glide and take a watch how a hormone called cortisol can affect a squirrel's learning ability.
New Scientist TV - March 2010
Find out about new space stations made of fabric, a sketching robot and the first scientific wedding.
New Scientist video round-up - October 10, 2008
Read more: www.newscientist.com Carbon material gives more grip than gecko feet. Deepest-living fishes caught on camera for the first time. Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate.
New Scientist video round-up - May 30, 2008
Watch a monkey use mind control to feed itself: technology.newscientist.com Find out about new software that could make motion capture cheaper: technology.newscientist.com See how orchids trick male bees into having sex with them: www.newscientist.com
Out on a limb over language
Read more here: www.newscientist.com Linguist Daniel Everett thinks that the language of the Pirahã - an indigenous tribe from Brazil - contradicts the theory that all languages share a single, innate grammar
Virtual out-of-body experience
A group of neuroscientists have induced out-of-body experiences for the first time, using virtual reality and an experimental set-up. Read more about it here: www.newscientist.com
New Scientist TV - May 2010
See how animated characters can move ultra-realistically, a machine that turns your desktop into a factory, and how to control computers using gaze alone.
The robot that learns like a child
Read more: technology.newscientist.com Swiss researchers have created software that allows robots to learn in a similar way to children.
Origin of life found from 50-year-old samples
Read more: environment.newscientist.com Researchers revisit Stanley Miller's famous spark experiments from the 1950s and find some new results.
New Scientist video round-up - October 17, 2008
Find out how squid use ink to communicate, the secrets of worm grunting and why a new pill turns into a sponge when it's swallowed.
New Scientist video round-up - November 9, 2007
This week, we look at the bizarre sexual preference of some toads, watch some mice who are not scared of their predators and find out about some toddlers who have a non-human friend.
Exoskeleton helps the paralyzed walk again - New Scientist
A reporter from New Scientist visited Berkeley Bionics and put this video together.
Smallest magnetic memory uses just 12 atoms
Talk about doing more with less. A dozen atoms have been made to store a bit of data magnetically -- a feat normally performed by a million atoms. The work could one day help shrink the devices that store computer data. Today's hard drives record data using a tiny electromagnet to align the spins of atoms in a metallic film that rotates below it. When the spins of about a million of these atoms are aligned in the same direction, their collective magnetic field can be detected by the electromagnet on its next pass. This means the million-strong group stores a single bit of data -- a 1 or a 0 in binary code. Unfortunately, that collective magnetic field also affects adjacent bits, limiting how closely they can be packed. Now Andreas Heinrich of IBM Research Almaden in San Jose, California, and colleagues have made the smallest magnetic bits yet -- and they can be packed more closely together than today's much larger bits. The trick is to make adjacent atoms spin in opposite directions. This alignment, called antiferromagnetism, does not generate an external magnetic field. Densely packed Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers were able to encode a bit of data in just 12 iron atoms kept at a temperature just a few degrees above absolute zero. Smaller numbers of atoms were too unstable to act as bits -- without neighbours to interact with and stabilise them, the atoms behaved like quantum objects that existed in multiple spin states at once. The team then ...
New Scientist TV - Oct 2009
Follow us to an insect festival, see some ultra-realistic dinosaurs and a huge camera obscura.
New Scientist video round-up - May 16, 2008
Find out if climbing is as easy as walking for small primates: www.newscientist.com Watch some birds that can pump up water droplets with their beaks: www.newscientist.com And see what researchers are finding out about polar ice caps on Mars.
New Scientist video round-up - October 03, 2008
See a fruit fly undergo a driving simulation, a car powered entirely by steam, and find out what makes birds sing faster.
New Scientist TV - June 2010
See how a smell gets up a shark's nose, how our brains are tricked by ambiguous scenes and how altitude will affect the World Cup.
New Scientist video round-up - May 9, 2008
Find out what the sequencing of the platypus genome has revealed about this unusual animal: www.newscientist.com See how electromagnets could soon be used to keep spacecraft in formation: space.newscientist.com and watch a simulation of an exploding star.
New Scientist video round-up - July 11, 2008
Find out how a robotic frog is helping researchers learn more about frog chat-up techniques: www.newscientist.com See a rubber snake that could soon be used to generate electricity: environment.newscientist.com Learn about a new technique that could make avatars more realistic: technology.newscientist.com
New Scientist video round-up - September 19, 2008
See underwater life that glows red, fungi that shoot out spores with the fastest acceleration ever seen in nature and a new bus that's steered by a computer.
New Scientist video round-up - August 8, 2008
Watch a new robotic arm powered by gyroscopes: technology.newscientist.com See the new Olympic Swimming Center in Beijing that was inspired by soap bubbles and footage of the hottest water on Earth: environment.newscientist.com
New Scientist: NanoTouch (Microsoft Research, Hasso Plattner Institute)
Video from the New Scientist www.newscientist.com The key to touch-enabling very small devices is to use touch on the device backside. In order to study this, the authors have created the 2.4" prototype device shown in the video. They use the device to simulate 2.4", 1.2", 0.6", and 0.3" devices controlled using back-of device interaction. This worked well, while a comparable touch screen interface failed. The reason is that the user's fingers occlude screen contents on regular touch screens, but not when interacting with the device backside. The key finding of this demo is that back-of-device interaction allows making very small touch devices, such as the pendants, watches, and rings briefly shown at the end of the video. Project headed by Patrick Baudisch and Gerry Chu at Hasso Plattner Institut Berlin/Potsdam and at Microsoft Research. www.patrickbaudisch.com
New Scientist video round-up - August 1, 2008
Watch randy male fish that don't like competition from other males: www.newscientist.com Find out about a new robot that can optimally position limbs in an MRI scanner to get the best images of tissues: See how bee foraging patterns could help the police track down serial killers: www.newscientist.com
New Scientist TV - Jan 2010
Find out about locust loners, peer inside our ancestors' teeth and find out about a mystery orchid pollinator.
New Scientist video round-up - April 25, 2008
Watch a robot-mongoose pair sniff out landmines: technology.newscientist.com See robots compete in the RoboCup competition : technology.newscientist.com
Chimps outperform humans at memory task
Read more: www.newscientist.com For the first time, young chimps have outperformed humans at a memory test.
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