Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 2 July 2012

A carving studio in the wood

At London's Kew Gardens, sculptor David Nash breathes new life into dying trees by carving them into works of art

HIV tests offered at pharmacies under pilot initiative

Offering HIV tests in pharmacies could help identify the 200,000 Americans - a fifth of the total - who don't know they're infected

Why you were just 'unfriended' on Facebook

Bad jokes or offensive comments probably won't make someone unfriend you on Facebook, but things get rocky without a mutual female friend

Higgs fever: Your guide to the most-wanted particle

On Wednesday CERN will announce the latest results in the hunt for the Higgs boson. What's technically possible - and what does it mean for the universe?

Humble DNA could help decipher dark matter

With large and expensive dark-matter experiments disagreeing on what they are seeing, help could come from a few strands of DNA

Rubber hand shows brain can be fooled on skin colour

White volunteers react as if a rubber hand is their own, regardless of whether it is white or black

Humans and nature turn American West into a tinderbox

Dry, hot, windy weather - and our success at putting out small, natural forest fires - have created the "perfect storm" for the massive US wildfires

Cyberwar's eerie echoes of the A-bomb race

Recent US cyberwarfare against Iran is worryingly similar to the early days of the atomic arms race, says Kennette Benedict

Far side of the moon offers quiet place for telescopes

To peer back to the universe's earliest years will need sensitive telescopes in a place where Earth's ionosphere and radio chatter cannot interfere

What kind of bang was the big bang?

There's trouble at the start of time: the theory of cosmic inflation has got way out of control. Can quantum theory and holograms tame it, asks Amanda Gefter

Rusty memories rejuvenated in elderly mice

Elderly mice have had their memory restored to that of younger mice with a dose of enzymes to their brain

First female taikonaut: 'It's good to stand on Earth'

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has landed safely in Mongolia, following the first crewed mission to the Tiangong-1 space station

Pharma giant failed to report 80,000 drug files

An official investigation is under way into Roche and Genentech to see if patients have been put at risk after data on drug reactions were not passed to regulatory authorities

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