Saturday, November 10, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 9 November 2012

Extensive drug pairing identifies new cancer treatments

Systematic testing of all 5000 possible cancer drug combinations has revealed unexpectedly effective new pairings

Machine translator speaks Chinese in your own voice

A Microsoft English-to-Mandarin translation system has astonished a Chinese crowd with the power of its speech engine - and what it means for the future

Oliver Sacks: I want to de-stigmatise hallucinations

The neurologist who wrote The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat lifts the lid on hallucinations - including his chat with a spider

Will we ever understand how our brains work?

Several projects are trying to reverse-engineer the brain. In How to Create a Mind, futurist Ray Kurzweil champions their cause

Feedback: Chocolate wins Nobel prizes

The chocolate-Nobel link, LOL out loud, the spineless inherit the Earth, and more

India's thorium-based nuclear dream inches closer

It's taken 60 years, but India finally appears poised to capitalise on its abundance of thorium, by using it to power an upcoming nuclear facility

Super-Earth wannabe may be habitable, if it exists

A new potentially rocky exoplanet seems to be in its star's life-friendly zone, but it could also be a mini-Neptune or a ghost in the data

Threatened coral calls in the goby cavalry

Faced with encroaching seaweeds, small staghorn corals send out a chemical signal that summons gobies to eat the threat

US states vote to experiment with marijuana

The legalisation of cannabis in two US states could affect both drug violence and public health. The one thing it may not affect is drug use

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