Science Headlines

	A physiological marker for false memories Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Mo Costandi \| Source: Science - Guardian False memories can be distinguished from real ones with a simple physiological test, report researchers from Germany [read more]
	Gold-coated ant wields microcog Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Don't fear, ants haven't started constructing micromachines: this cog-wielding insect has been sealed in golden armour after death [read more]
	Do you want to join our science blog network? Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Alok Jha \| Source: Science - Guardian We're expanding our network to cover more scientific fields and are seeking some of the UK's best science bloggers [read more]
	US voters are less partisan than they think Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Democrat and Republican voters' views on touchstone issues are not as strongly polarised as they assume – but mistrustful activists may often swing elections [read more]
	Today on New Scientist: 27 January 2012 Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: arsenic life does not exist after all and repeated drought in east Africa may prompt aid rethink [read more]
	Cane toads lose their killer touch in east Australia Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Australia's native species die when they eat poisonous cane toads – but not the blue-tongue lizards of eastern Australia [read more]
	'Microplastic' threat to shores Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns. [read more]
	Fishing's global footprint Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC Mapping fishing's global footprint - and deciding what to do about it [read more]
	Why are people friendly? \| Andrew Brown Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Andrew Brown \| Source: Science - Guardian Without selection between competing groups, the advantages of co-operation are not great enough to make it spread [read more]
	Anti-matter set for gravity test Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of "anti-gravity". [read more]
	Arctic ice melt lifts hopes for Russian maritime trade Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - Reuters SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. [read more]
	Rare minerals dearth threatens global renewables industry Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: John Vidal \| Source: Science - Guardian China's near-exclusive access to terbium and yttrium sent prices soaring in 2011, potentially hobbling clean energy industry [read more]
	Creativity takes teamwork Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines What does creativity in science look like? The most creative scientists may be those that collaborate with others from different disciplines, concludes a panel [read more]
	Astrophile: Picture yourself on a sandboard on Titan Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Taking in plastic sand, marmalade skies and methane rivers, a tour of Titan's sand dunes would be as trippy as a late Beatles song [read more]
	Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - Reuters MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to delay the next mission carrying U.S. and Russian astronauts to the International Space Station by several weeks due to problems with the spaceship's descent vehicle, Interfax news agency quoted an indu ... [read more]
	Asteroid makes near-miss fly-by Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC An 11m-wide asteroid passed within 60,000km of Earth on Friday, making it one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet. [read more]
	Can we trust a model that predicts traffic chaos during the Olympics? Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Nathan Green \| Source: Science - Guardian Models can help us unravel complexity and predict the future, but they're only as good as the data and people who built them [read more]
	Kepler telescope team finds 11 new solar systems Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - Reuters CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said ... [read more]
	Virtual trees sway in wind just like the real thing Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Animators will soon be able to construct startlingly realistic sylvan beauty in movies and video games with a new system for generating 3D virtual trees [read more]
	Rivals see no need to match Roche's big gene bet Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - Reuters DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's rivals Sanofi SA and Novartis AG see no need to match the Swiss drug maker in buying a gene-decoding business like Illumina Inc and reckon they can do partnerships instead. [read more]
	Repeated drought in east Africa may prompt aid rethink Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Rainfall patterns over east Africa have changed in a way that makes severe droughts more likely – aid agencies need to rethink the way they operate [read more]
	VIDEO: Air pollution alert first for Scotland Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC Scotland is to become the first part of the UK to offer a pollution alert system which could be incorporated into weather forecasts. [read more]
	Nintendo Wii U to have touch-free payment system Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Nintendo's next console will have a near-field communications (NFC) chip, opening up the possibility of new kinds of games and new ways to pay for them. [read more]
	VIDEO: Child's toy launched into space Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC While America is running down its manned space programme - further north - two Canadian students have shown that flying into space does not always have to be rocket science. [read more]
	Let's give science a bad name in schools Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines The best way to get teens interested in science is to wash its dirty laundry in public, says Michael Brooks [read more]
	Friday Illusion: Einstein's face emerges from tapestry Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: New Scientist Headlines Watch knitted stripes reveal a portrait of the famous physicist when viewed from an angle [read more]
	UK space sector 'on the up' Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC UK space sector is feeling good and looking good [read more]
	Branding academic publishers 'enemies of science' is offensive and wrong Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Graham Taylor \| Source: Science - Guardian Publishers have made more scientific research available to more readers at a lower unit cost than ever before [read more]
	Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail Jan 27, 2012 \| Author: Dan Collyns \| Source: Science - Guardian Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second [read more]
	Orchid's bloom captured on camera Jan 27, 2012 \| Source: Science - BBC Time-lapse photos see orchid coming into flower [read more]