Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Today on New Scientist: 12 March 2013

Craig Venter close to creating synthetic life

Synthetic genome pioneer Craig Venter says that his team is close to creating a living bacterium made completely from scratch

Mystery boson earns Higgs status thanks to W particle

New decay data confirms that the unsatisfyingly named "Higgs-like particle" announced at CERN last year really is a Higgs boson

That's the stuff: Welcome to the Materials Library

Metals that cry, living concrete and a handcuffed Texan's briefcase: the diversity of the materials we create says a lot about us, finds Richard Fisher

Reality TV paves way for Neil Armstrong of Mars

Giant leaps in spacecraft design mean that quirky commercial ventures could be one small step away from putting bootprints on the Red Planet

Living on the edge of the Snake

Teetering untidily on the edge of the Snake river canyon, the Idaho town of Jerome captures the continuing tension between human settlement and nature

Cloning record broken - next up clones from faeces

After cloning 25 generations from a single mouse, the next step for a Japanese lab is to attempt to make clones from mouse fur, stuffed bodies and excrement

Fuel of the future: How fiery ice could power Asia

If the first attempt to exploit frozen methane beneath Japan's seabed works, it could herald the next great energy source for the region - and maybe the world

Who knew birds looked this good under their feathers?

Katrina van Grouw's The Unfeathered Bird is a stunning collection of her drawings, complemented by plenty of ornithological nuggets

To wipe out leprosy, we have to find it

With a new rapid-result blood test and a vaccine in the works, leprosy eradication may soon be a reality, says immunologist Malcolm Duthie, who created the test

First rapid planet-reader makes unique family portrait

A technique for snapping the spectra of extrasolar planets detects the molecular clues of all planets in a star system simultaneously

What your Facebook 'likes' really say about you

Facebook gleans a huge amount of information from your "likes" on the site - from your ethnicity and sexuality to your personality and politics

Antibiotic resistance an 'apocalyptic threat'

Antibiotics to fight the global spread of deadly bacteria are out there already but they are being stymied by unrealistic regulatory requirements and market pressures

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