Friday, June 22, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 21 June 2012

Mapping moon's Shackleton reveals icy secrets

Shackleton, ice, south pole - what comes to mind? A moon base, perhaps, once you've seen the latest radar maps of a deep lunar crater

Growing up next to a secret nuclear facility

Life next to a secret nuclear facility PLUS: The ideas that paved the way for Darwin and the diseases we share with the rest of the animal kingdom

US government backs off social media monitoring

Following New Scientist's report on government plans to monitor social media, the Department of State has quietly rescinded its solicitation

The openness revolution will not be trivial

Openness is a good thing for science but you can't just wish it into existence - it takes hard work and money too, says Joanna Haigh

Medical marijuana does not increase teen drug use

An analysis of US teens finds no correlation between increased drug use and legalisation of medical marijuana

Road repair tech sees and fills cracks on the move

The device is able to identify more than 83 per cent of the cracks in the road and then fills them as it passes

Cave art appreciation opens ancient human minds to us

Science may soon tell us who made ancient art, but it'll need help from unexpected quarters to explain why they did it

The wasteful quest for immortality

Mary Midgley, the nonagenarian philosopher, believes that living forever is overrated: quality of life - not quantity - is more important

Kids' antibiotic prescriptions fall in the US

Warnings about antibiotic overuse appear to have been heard in the US, where prescriptions for children dropped by 14 per cent between 2002 and 2010

Tiny human liver grown inside mouse's head

A human liver just 5 millimetres in size has been grown inside the head of a mouse. But can the organ replicate all liver functions?

Big Brother is watching Facebook and Twitter

The US government wants to monitor activity on social networks to get hints of political unrest

Greece needs technological help to reboot economy

The new Greek government will be powerless to transform the country without improved computer systems, economist warns

Why haven't bald men gone extinct?

Even as we get to grips with the biology of baldness, the shiny pate remains a real evolutionary mystery

Biomedical beauties: Wellcome Image Awards winners

The Wellcome Image Awards celebrate unexpected biomedical structures and patterns - see the winner and the best of the rest here

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