Johnald's Fantastical Daily Link Splurge |
- NASA Watches Dead Zones From Space
- Clouds add depth to computer landscapes
- How the brain deals you a poor hand
- Why spiderweb glue never lets go
- Connecting a heart-lung machine - cardiopulmonary bypass
- Free-falling atoms will put relativity to the test
- Today on New Scientist: 18 June 2010
- Take the political heat out of climate scepticism
- Thundercloud gamma rays hint at origins of lightning
- Second well on the way to cap Deepwater Horizon
| NASA Watches Dead Zones From Space Posted: 19 Jun 2010 12:27 PM PDT  (14 votes - 1 comment - 224 views) Some NASA scientists explain a bit about what a "dead zone" is and why the area in the Gulf Of Mexico affected by this phenomenon is particularly bad. | ||
| Clouds add depth to computer landscapes Posted: 19 Jun 2010 05:00 AM PDT A single camera watching the shadows of clouds moving across a landscape can allow a computer to calculate topography 
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| How the brain deals you a poor hand Posted: 19 Jun 2010 04:00 AM PDT Our mental image of the size and position of our hands seems not to match with reality 
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| Why spiderweb glue never lets go Posted: 19 Jun 2010 02:00 AM PDT Spiderweb glue is not only sticky, it is also elastic like chewing gum – making it 100 times stronger than tacky glues 
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| Connecting a heart-lung machine - cardiopulmonary bypass Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:49 PM PDT  (22 votes - 5 comments - 295 views) A 3:56 video that shows the highlights of how a heart-lung machine is connected to the body during surgery. Medical science is amazing. | ||
| Free-falling atoms will put relativity to the test Posted: 18 Jun 2010 10:14 AM PDT A capsule loaded with a Bose-Einstein condensate has dropped down a 110-metre shaft, in preparation for a test of one of Einstein's key assumptions 
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| Today on New Scientist: 18 June 2010 Posted: 18 Jun 2010 10:00 AM PDT All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: taking the heat out of climate scepticism, why rats have a sense of space, and a fish with venetian blinds 
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| Take the political heat out of climate scepticism Posted: 18 Jun 2010 09:10 AM PDT The public is dubious about climate change, and libertarian sceptics are on the march. How can we improve matters, asks Roger Harrabin 
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| Thundercloud gamma rays hint at origins of lightning Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:26 AM PDT Mysterious gamma ray bursts that occur in the first moments of a storm, as lightning jumps between clouds, hint at where lightning comes from 
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| Second well on the way to cap Deepwater Horizon Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:57 AM PDT Capping the flow of oil from the striken rig by drilling another well is a huge technical challenge, but it has to work 
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