Название: New Scientist №2771 (31 июля 2010) / US
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End dirty tactics in the climate war
Disagreements over climate change will be resolved only by reasoned debate, not vitriol and harassment
Not all shaken baby convictions are sound
It would be a crime to delay the overhaul of "shaken baby syndrome" science any longer
Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer
Japan's IKAROS spacecraft has used liquid-crystal layers to steer using only the pressure of sunlight – a first for solar sails
US food waste worth more than offshore drilling
A study of the energetic value of food wasted in the US each year shows the scale of the problem
What comes after the Large Hadron Collider?
Physicists will soon have to decide what kind of particle smasher they want built after the LHC – they have discussed it at a major conference
Why IVF pioneers were denied public money
The UK Medical Research Council saw test-tube baby researchers Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards as "publicity hounds" and their work as irrelevant
60 Seconds
The biggest rat ever, the benefits of beer for arthritis, how Antarctic octopuses stay toxic in the cold, and more
Anti-vaccination website poses public health risk
Australian public health watchdog says campaigners' claims about vaccines are misleading, inaccurate and may be dangerous to public health
Climategate data sets to be made public
Researchers at the centre of the climategate controversy plan to release three major temperature data sets and details of how they are processed
Time to go atomic on space station
The most accurate clock ever sent to space will soon be hosted by the International Space Station – it could help to reveal changes in nature's fundamental constants
Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us
Some dinosaurs' skulls changed so much as they matured that we've mistaken young and old for completely different species
Climategate scientist breaks his silence
Injecting electrons beneath the surface of a silicon wafer could move us closer towards building things atom by atom
Regulation could save genome scanning, not kill it
The personal genomics industry has been bruised by the US Congress, but embracing sensible regulation could shift it to the heart of clinical medicine
Spinning black holes could expose exotic particles
If a potential dark matter particle – the axion – exists, it could reveal itself in explosions around black holes
Cosmic Trojans may sneak comets towards Earth
A collection of asteroids that orbit the sun along roughly the same path as Neptune may be a source of comets that could hit Earth
Twitter mood maps reveal emotional states of America
How is the US feeling right now? The emotional words contained in hundreds of millions of tweets may hold the answers
...and more!