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Today on New Scientist: 4 September 2009 Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance - including bad news for meat-eaters, the coolest microgravity research, and extreme Velcro NewScientist.comScientists Count New York`s Cricket Population Scientists are asking New Yorkers' help to track the city's population of the common true katydid. New Yorkers have been asked to use their cell phones to record the insects' calls for 1 minute, and send their results and locations to scientists. Louis Sorkin, an entomologist with the American Museum of Natural History and co-organizer of NYC Cricket Crawl, says the project is an attempt to find out if katydids still live in New York. NPRNY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talk ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.... The Arizona RepublicScientists Identify Two Gene Variants Associated with Alzheimer`s Risk The study, which pooled DNA samples from a number of European and U.S. groups, not only associated variations in the sequence of the CLU and PICALM genes with increased risk, but also found another 13 gene variants that merit further investigation, according to findings presented in the Sept. Topix.netGenetic Cause For Type Of Deafness Identified; Discovery Could Lead To New Therapies For Progressive Hearing Loss Scientists have discovered a genetic cause of progressive hearing loss. The findings will help scientists better understand the nature of age-related decline in hearing, and may lead to new therapies to prevent or treat the condition. Science dailyThis week`s top stories [04 September 2009] Our top articles ranked by reader popularity.Best visions of the night sky13 more things that don't make senseChina cracks down on stem cell tourismOne partner stumbles in lunar probe pas de deuxBiased parrots pass tests with flying coloursToday on New Scientist: 1 September 2009Lobsters teach robots magnetic mapping trickWhy AI is a dangerous dreamIntensive frog farming takes giant leap forwardFull without food: Can surgery cure obesity? NewScientist.com``So Then I Said to Roger Federer . . .``: The Tricky Business of Name-Dropping A former colleague of mine--whose name shall not be spoken, neither for joy nor strategy--was so transparently boastful of his tissue-thin associations with “famous psychologists” that I found him, well, rather unlikable as a result of it. Not only did he name-drop at every possible opportunity, but just in case you missed the reference to So-and-So popping up in the conversation about, say, lactose intolerance or Frisbee golf, his office was also visually booby-trapped to produce the same effect. Like some groupie at a rock concert, he’d capitalized on the many photo-ops at various academic conferences so that these grinning photos showed him with his arms draped around a virtual Who’s Who of accommodating (and usually slightly befuddled, or at least mildly inebriated ) star scientists.Why is it that we find “name-dropping” and related behaviors so unappealing in others? Similar to many other social behaviors, the phenomenon of name-dropping is o Scientific AmericanLasers generate underwater sound Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are developing a new technology for use in underwater acoustics. The new technology uses flashes of laser light to remotely create underwater sound. The new acoustic source has the potential to expand and improve both Naval and commercial underwater acoustic applications, including undersea communications, navigation, and acoustic imaging. Physorg.comWarmer climate could make succulent meat a memory Pork chops will become soggier and paler as the world warms, say veterinary scientists, and steaks could become blander, leaner and darker pheedo.comHow broccoli can protect your arteries LONDON (Reuters) - It's long been thought that broccoli is good for your heart, and now British scientists think they know why. Reuters1 2 3 |
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