Friday, March 15, 2013

Today on New Scientist: 14 March 2013

Four wings bad, two wings better - for early birds

Evidence is mounting that primitive birds initially evolved flight using four wings

Higgs keeps mum about universe's secrets - for now

The last known quirk in the properties of the Higgs boson discovered last year has vanished from the data of one of the experiments that detected it

Glow planes: Plasmas take the drag out of air travel

Futuristic planes with glowing wings, super-efficient wind turbines, greener cars... can a coat of ionised gas deliver all this magic?

65 tonnes of dead fish clog Rio's Olympic lagoon

It's fishmageddon at Rio's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where low oxygen levels have killed thousands of fish days before an Olympic rowing qualifier race

Clawed drone grabs prey on the fly just like an eagle

Drones with arms and legs will be able to help out with tasks like bridge repair, pruning trees and using hand tools

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

Are breast milk stem cells the real deal for medicine?

Breast milk could give a plentiful supply of embryonic-like stem cells for treating Alzheimer's or repairing damaged hearts

Meet six winners and losers from wildlife trade meeting

At this year's CITES meeting, some animals had their trade banned, some are doing so well their protection level was decreased, and some are gone forever

Cellphone sniffer hunts down illicit prison calls

Contraband cellphones are a massive problem in prisons - now there's a way to see who's using one

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