Thursday, May 24, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 24 May 2012

App lets anyone track Twitter to play the stock market

The firm behind last year's "Twitter hedge fund" has announced that it is launching an app and website that will let any investor do the same thing

DNA suggests marine reserves boost commercial fishing

The argument that protecting fish can also benefit the fishing industry gains some genetic support

Earliest member of giant panda line found in Spain

A pair of 11-million-year-old fossilised teeth may have belonged to an ancestor of the giant panda

Satellite images help doctors count people from space

For the first time, the population of a city has been counted from space. The images will help doctors speed up medical aid to disaster zones

Weight-loss surgery reduces desire for alcohol

The Roux-en-Y weight-loss procedure appears to leave patients averse to alcohol

ISS spots Dragon as commercial craft prepares to dock

It's a dream mission so far for SpaceX as its third successful Falcon 9 rocket flight has delivered the Dragon capsule to the vicinity of the ISS

Squaring the genetically modified crop circle

If researchers want to make progress with genetically modified crops, they must join their opponents in examining regulation, says Matthew C. Nisbet

What life in augmented reality could look like

Watch how technology could one day create an environment that seamlessly merges physical and digital worlds

Greek crisis: What the government should spend on

With the long-term financial forecast looking grim, what public services does Greece need to prioritise?

Will technology kill humanity?

This week's round-up of book reviews takes in a series of apocalyptic thought experiments and an explanation of navigation in the animal kingdom

Zoologger: Infrared-sensing beetles born in fire

Seeking a smouldering fire in which to breed, charcoal beetles have infrared sensors that can sense heat from vast distances

Widen the goal in the search for alien life

We need to cast off our biological blinkers in the search for life beyond Earth and turn to physics, says cosmologist Charley Lineweaver

Green Machine: Electric freight trucks coming to LA

Los Angeles looks set to be the first city to try out the new "eHighway" project

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