Thursday, July 5, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 5 July 2012

Zoologger: The fish with its genitals on its head

Newly discovered in Vietnam, Phallostethus cuulong has its gonads under its chin - along with a serrated saw and rod for grasping females

World's biggest hydroelectric plant fully operational

Witness the power of this fully operational... dam. The last turbine generators of China's Three Gorges Dam have been opened

Physicists propose factory to spew out Higgs particles

A muon-antimuon collider might be a clever way to produce bucketloads of Higgs bosons, letting us study their properties

One-Minute Physics: Why the Higgs is the missing link

Watch an animation that explains why the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics

Ouija board helps psychologists probe the subconscious

A new study suggests it's possible to tap into our subconscious using the preferred tool of spiritualists

Infertility may increase risk of mental disorders

Failure to have children may increase risk of hospitalisation for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and drug abuse

Eco-activists want to torpedo a war game

The US navy uses old ships as target practice before letting them sink in the sea - environmental activists fear the vessels are toxic

The quest to drill the world's deepest hole

Deeper and deeper the drillers have gone in the past 50 years. Follow them down through the Earth's crust towards their boldest borehole yet

GlaxoSmithKline agrees $3 billion fraud payout

The pharmaceutical giant accepts that it sold misbranded drugs and withheld safety data, following a criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice

Computer composer honours Turing's centenary

A suite of orchestral pieces generated by a computer program has been premiered in Spain

Split personality crime: who is guilty?

Dissociative identity disorder - when a person appears to have multiple personalities - is a real condition, a study says. But what if they commit a crime?

First animation reveals how a face forms in the womb

Watch a time-lapse based on human embryo scans that shows how our face develops

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