Friday, February 3, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 2 February 2012

India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution

Solar power has long had a reputation for being expensive, but the falling costs of making panels could change that

Fomalhaut's giant exoplanet may be small lava world

The planet Fomalhaut b looks the size of Jupiter, but there's no sign of its heat - the truth may be more exotic

Status update: Facebook finally goes public

Facebook has announced its intention to go public, revealing details about its inner workings and plans for the future

Exploring technology's dark side

Progress in technology may have made our lives easier, but has this convenience come at a cost? Berlin's Transmediale festival explores the issue

No solar disaster - this time

A weak solar maximum might sound like a blessing but could leave us wide open in 2024

Zoologger: The only males with more brain than females

In one Icelandic lake, male three-spined sticklebacks have much larger brains than females - no other species shows such a big difference between the sexes

Launch escape rocket roars into life

Watch a new rocket fire up during tests in preparation for the next generation of spaceflight

Spaced out: Clearing astronauts' mental fog

Being in space messes with your brain - bad news if you're steering a spacecraft. How can we save astronauts from the space stupids, asks Anil Ananthaswamy

'Stirling' power for ultra-efficient space probes

NASA uses plutonium to power its probes, but Cold War supplies are dwindling - a new twist on a 19th century technology could save the day

First land plants plunged Earth into ice age

When the first simple mosses colonised the land, they unleashed vast ice sheets and triggered a mass extinction

I think we should let elephants loose in Australia

Australia has a long history of ecological disaster from alien species - so why is ecologist David Bowman proposing adding yet another?

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