Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Today on New Scientist: 7 January 2013

Light hits near infinite speed in silver-coated glass

A new metamaterial is the first with a refractive index near zero, allowing light waves to propagate ultrafast over nano-distances

Fact and fiction blur as Captain Kirk tweets astronaut

Truth got stranger than fiction in low Earth orbit when the crew of the starship Enterprise exchanged messages with the crew of the International Space Station

Sea level rise could lead to a cooler, stormier world

If sea level rises significantly due to global warming, chilled seas caused by melting icebergs might temporarily cool the planet's surface

Climate change looms large as Australia swelters

Australia is baking in record-breaking heat, threatening to unleash the worst firestorms since 2009

Abnormal timing in the womb may cause miscarriage

Repeated miscarriages may be due to abnormal signals that make the uterus receptive to an embryo for too long

Quantum shadows: The mystery of matter deepens

Forget particles and waves. When it comes to the true guise of material reality, what's out there is beyond our grasp, says Anil Ananthaswamy

Chad's 'mountains of hunger' as rendered by Turner

It may look like a Turner, but this dramatic image is actually a snapshot of the Tibesti mountains that straddle Chad and Libya taken from space

West vs Asia education rankings are misleading

Western schoolchildren are routinely outperformed by their Asian peers, but worrying about it is pointless, says MacGregor Campbell

Silent Skype calls can hide secret messages

A new technique embeds secret data in the silent gaps between words during a Skype call, making it very hard to detect

Graphic in-car crash warnings to slow speeding drivers

Tell drivers what might happen to them and their car if they continue speeding and they might just slow down

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