Sunday, October 30, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 27 October 2011

Climate known: Sea level is going to rise many metres

Studies of past climate indicate each 1 ?C rise in the global mean temperature eventually leads to a 20-metre rise in sea level

Climate unknown: How quickly sea level will rise

Do we have time to get temperatures back down before seas rise by more than a few metres? We have little clue how much room we have for manoeuvre

Climate unknown: How serious the threat to life is

The problem for the plants, animals and people living today is that they and we have adapted to the unusually stable climate of the past few thousand years

Quantum upgrade removes need for spooky observer

A new modification to our most successful theory tackles a neglected puzzle at its heart: why observing a subatomic particle seems to change its behaviour

Dreams read by brain scanner for the first time

With the help of six rare lucid dreamers, scanners have shown that brain activity when dreaming an action is similar to that of imagining it

How to make a fat man jiggle in 3D animation

Fat is a tough ask for computer animators. Now a smart algorithm could make blobbier cartoon characters far more realistic

Eyes reveal true hypnotic state for the first time

Watch a one-word technique produce the first physical evidence of hypnosis

Zoologger: Slime killer hagfish feasts in rotten flesh

Despite not having any jaws, hagfish hunt fish, deter predators with slime, and eat rotting corpses from the inside out

Climate change in your wildest imaginings

In the short story collection I'm with the Bears, hot authors imagine what will become of us if global warming gets out of hand

As Bangkok evacuates, city could be flooded for a month

Bangkok's main river broke its banks overnight forcing thousands of residents to flee the flooding Thai capital, and more water is on its way

A stargazing tour of Earth's most extreme telescopes

Watch a narrated slide show that follows an extreme journey to the observatories in Chile's Atacama desert

Space pilot: 'You miss the shots you don't take'

More than 500 people applied to take passengers to the edge of space with Virgin Galactic - Keith Colmer is the first to be chosen

Icy start to China's first space docking mission

The spacecraft set to make China's first attempt to dock in orbit rises above a crystalline field of ice-shrouded grass ahead of its planned launch

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