Friday, March 9, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 7 March 2012

Gorilla DNA unlocks secrets of our species

The gorilla is the last of the great apes to have its genome sequenced and the results throw cold water on theories about how our language evolved

Exotic electrical effect pops up in soft mammalian tissue

Prized for its potential to enhance computer memory, ferroelectricity could soon be the basis for drugs that switch off cholesterol and bio-RAM for implants

Physics 'demon' reveals fundamental heat of forgetting

An experiment inspired by a metaphorical demon has measured the energy cost of memory erasure, which will one day impose a limit on the power of computers

Alzheimer's around the world, through a personal lens

Sociologist and photographer Cathy Greenblat has documented the diversity of lives affected by Alzheimer's disease in three continents

AI designs its own video game

Video games designed almost entirely by a computer program herald a new wave of AI creativity

Conflicting Higgs results muddy particle hunt

Researchers at the US-based Tevatron spot new hints of the Higgs boson, while an LHC experiment reports that an earlier signal is starting to fade

Light-painting flashlight exposes draughty rooms

Watch a do-it-yourself device shine a glowing heat map onto walls to help bust penny-pinching landlords

Exploring the ancestry of your desktop PC

In Turing's Cathedral, science historian George Dyson shines a fascinating light on the critical period when computers came into being

Video game controller tugs on your thumbs

The prototype controller offers more realistic touch feedback than those used by current game consoles

Deep future: Why we'll still be here

Asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions may threaten us in the next 100,000 years, but the odds are good that humanity will avoid extinction, says Michael Brooks

Cloud-streamed games let you click and play

"Cloudpaging" technology could let you instantly start playing games on a PC, tablet or smartphone without having to install them first

LulzSec hackers charged as leader works with FBI

LulzSec leader Sabu has reportedly been working with the FBI to help bring down his fellow hackers

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