Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 3 July 2012

Are you feeling sleepy? Alcohol may help hypnosis

How mind-altering drugs can increase our susceptibility to hypnosis, and how that could improve medical care

Gotcha! Higgs find will kick off new era of knowledge

The 50-year particle hunt looks to be almost over but the Higgs games are only just beginning

Birth of a boson: the Higgs has more than one daddy

Ahead of a possible discovery of the Higgs boson, New Scientist speaks to two of the particle's less-known fathers

Gaia spacecraft to be flung 1.5 million km from Earth

The European Space Agency is preparing for the launch of its Gaia spacecraft. Its mission: to create a 3D map of a billion stars using a 1.5-gigapixel camera

Islamist threat to Timbuktu's ancient scientific texts

The Ansar Dine islamist group is destroying historic tombs in the Malian town. An ancient collection of Islamic texts could be their next target

Mouse 'junk' DNA vital for gene regulation

Non-coding regions of mouse DNA reveal important regulatory segments shared by mice and humans

Touchscreen ignores unintentional taps and swipes

Ever triggered a tweet or email with an accidental tap on a touchscreen? Thanks to Nokia, there could soon be an app for that

Past and future tales of climate change

Climate Changing Stories at London's Science Museum deploys art and artefacts to open deep perspectives into climate and technology past and future

A brief history of a boson: Timeline of Higgs

In the culmination of a 50-year quest, physicists at CERN are expected to announce the discovery of the Higgs boson - we show how they got there

Miracle buster: Why I traced holy water to leaky drain

Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the "holy" water dripping from a statue of Christ came from a blocked drain

Higgs results leaked - but are they real or rumour?

Reports have surfaced claiming that the elusive Higgs particle has been discovered, but a CERN official described the reports as "premature"

AI systems could fight cyberbullying

Smart software could detect online bullying via a database system that can identify even the subtlest of abusive comments

Tevatron collider waves goodbye to the Higgs

As the world waits for news of the Higgs boson from the LHC, the last great US particle smasher has presented its final contribution to the hunt

Protests greet reboot of Japanese nuclear reactor

Reactor 3 at the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture in western Japan has reached criticality

Sun's hot plasma activity measured

What does a 1-million-?C loop of gas rising from the sun's surface look like? And what can it tell us about solar storms coming our way?

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