Thursday, August 23, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 21 August 2012

Bitcoin credit card to let users withdraw cash

Those with funds in the online peer-to-peer currency Bitcoin may soon be able to withdraw real world cash directly from an ATM

First UK hydrogen train takes passengers for a ride

Watch the first hydrogen-powered locomotive in the UK as it successfully hauls wagons and people

Spacecraft builders follow in dinosaurs' footsteps

From palaeontology to outer space: dinosaur prints from the Cretaceous period have been discovered on the land of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Glowing insects evolved surprisingly recently

An analysis of bioluminescent species suggests those living on land are tens of millions of years old - a fraction of the age of bioluminescing marine groups

Why we need to leave wiggle room for the planet

In The Human Quest, scientist Johan Rockstrom and photographer Mattias Klum make a compelling case for why we need to stay within environmental boundaries

Bonobo genius makes stone tools like early humans did

Not content with learning sign language or coining "words", Kanzi the bonobo now seems able to make flint tools as well as our ancestors did

3D printers tell you when your design will fail

Before you 3D print, you better make sure your object can make it in the real world. New software provides a virtual stress test to help you print safely

Virtual knitting makes simulated sweaters look cosier

An easy way to simulate knitted fabric makes for strikingly realistic computer-generated clothing

Dreaming up the shape of cars to come

Motor industry futurist Sheryl Connelly looks forward to the rise of megacities and self-driving cars

Plume power: Deep engines of earthquakes and volcanoes

Plate tectonics can't explain all the earthquakes, volcanoes and landscapes of Earth, so what else is shaping its surface? Anil Ananthaswamy investigates

NASA decides to send robotic seismologist to Mars

A lander to study the Red Planet's interior wins out over plans to visit a comet or an ocean on Saturn's moon Titan

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