Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Today on New Scientist: 26 February 2013

Giant laser creates an artificial star to clear the sky

The Very Large Telescope's new laser looks like something off the Death Star, but its powerful beam is used for the peaceful exploration of the galaxy

Russian meteor traced to Apollo asteroid family

The bounty of footage from dashboard-mounted cameras helped astronomers quickly calculate the orbit of the meteor and trace it to its home turf

Curiosity's spills add thrills to the Mars life hunts

An accidental chemical leak on board NASA's newest Martian rover has added another twist in the decades-long search for life on the Red Planet

Multilingual dictionary keeps humans in the loop

A new online dictionary launched this week uses concepts instead of words to avoid the typical garble of machine translation

Vulcan and Cerberus win popular Pluto moon-naming vote

A public vote to help name Pluto's two newest moons received a boost from William Shatner - but the International Astronomical Union has the final say

China takes steps to clean up 'cancer villages'

Having acknowledged the issue of cancer clusters around polluted water, the Chinese government is taking its first steps to control dangerous chemicals

Happy, snappy tweets gain the most Twitter followers

An analysis of half a million posts on Twitter has come up with some simple rules to boost your popularity on the site

Android smartphone to control satellite in orbit

A bold attempt to show that consumer electronics can cope with space radiation has lifted off - a satellite-controlling Google smartphone is now in orbit

The man who's crashing the techno-hype party

Evgeny Morozov does a good job of dispelling "big data" hype in To Save Everything, Click Here, but fails to explore the way we shape the tech we use

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