Weasel halts LHC experiments after chewing on a power cable
The Large Hadron Collider has suffered a power outage after the unfortunate critter chewed on a 66 kilovolt electrical transformer (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 29, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Sperm-binding beads could work as fertility aid or contraceptive
Microbeads coated in a human egg protein work as a contraceptive in mice and could also be used to select the best sperm for IVF
(Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 27, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Feedback: In the key of A, a secret plot to weaponise music
Plus Pastafarian plaques leave German pastor steaming, plutonium homeopathy offers a nuclear solution, Wagner opera presages relativity, and more (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 27, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Why are religions so judgemental? Ask evolution
The rise of moralising religions like Christianity can be explained by evolution – and so can their eventual downfall, says evolutionary psychologist Nicolas Baumard (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 27, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
That’s odd: Unruly penguins hint where all the antimatter went
Rare “penguin” particle decays should all happen at the same rate. They don’t – perhaps providing a clue to why we live in a universe made of matter (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 27, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
State of US health: black health up, teen pregnancies down
A report on health in the US finds that people are living longer, racial disparities are improving, but suicide, heroin use and ADHD are on the rise (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 27, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers
Fresh evidence that carbon pollution is greening our planet will be billed as good news by climate deniers. It isn't, says Olive Heffernan (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 26, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
How to explore Guatemala’s Mayan ruins from 4500 kilometres away
Virtual tourism is about to take off, giving people the chance to visit the world's most beautiful – and inaccessible – places without leaving home (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 20, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Feedback: A hot tip on the latest celebrity diet
Plus a troupe of Tims needed for nominative determinism play, free range vacuum cleaners, the offical unit of beauty, bus prohibits passengers, and more (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 20, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Climate change has been kind to Americans – but it won’t last
Most of the US has better weather now than 40 years ago, and this might explain why Americans tend to be less convinced of the dangers of climate change (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 20, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
21-million-year-old fossil is North America’s first monkey
The extraordinary find pushes back the arrival of primates to the continent by 18 million years but raises another question - why didn't they thrive there? (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 20, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Brexit might lead to weaker environmental rules, says report
A vote to leave the EU on 23 June would have uncertain, possibly detrimental effects on the UK's standards of environmental protection (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 18, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Past, present, future: How do we deal with time?
How do we shape the past? Or the future? Is boredom in the present good for us? Two new books take on the complexities of how we experience time (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 13, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Is evil a disease? ISIS and the neuroscience of brutality
It's hard to understand how the Nazis, ISIS and other radical groups can turn ordinary people into brutal killers. But perhaps evil is a disease – one we can treat (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - November 11, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Entangled universe: Could wormholes hold the cosmos together?
Weird connections through space-time might make reality real, giving us a promising new route to a theory of everything (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - November 4, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
