Friday, March 2, 2012

Today on New Scientist: 1 March 2012

Quake-proof megatower tops out in Tokyo

Tokyo's 634-metre-high Sky Tree incorporates some of the most advanced earthquake and typhoon-resistant technology

How to suspend a raindrop in mid-air

Artist Alistair McClymont creates a rainbow after dark and suspends a free-falling water droplet in his latest works.

US registry to clear up confusion over genetic tests

The US National Institutes of Health is about to launch a free online tool with information on the tests for 2500 genetic diseases currently available

How do you make nanodiamonds? Merge carbon 'onions'

The mystery of how the tiny diamonds found in meteorites form in outer space has been solved

Swarm of robot helicopters performs James Bond tune

Watch a team of flying robotic musicians coordinate its movements to play a song

The secrets of solving mathematical puzzles

In The Puzzler's Dilemma, professional puzzle-setter Derrick Niederman reveals the logic behind solving posers old and new

Total recall: Diary of a lifelogger

It sounds like the ultimate vanity project, but a camera that records your every moment could make you happier and healthier. Helen Thomson tries it

There's no sense in revising the psychiatrist's bible

Forget the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - we need a new system based on brain physiology, says psychiatrist Nick Craddock

No-waste circular economy is good business - ask China

Redesigning the economy to make it circular - so that all waste is reused or recycled - would be good for business, say two new reports

Peaceable matter-antimatter pairs glimpsed in the lab

Muscular particle accelerators may grab the headlines, but more prosaic laboratories can prove just as fertile hunting ground for particle exotica

A giant among moths

The atlas moth dwarfs others of its kind, with a wingspan known to reach 25 centimetres, as Sandesh Kadur's spectacular image shows

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