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Today on New Scientist: 16 October 2009
Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how to solve the secrets of structure, a camera to record your whole life, and how to give a fly a false memory
NewScientist.com

Thermometer For The Earth
An 'optical soil dipstick' will help scientists, urban planners and farmers understand the changing health of the soil, as well as the soil's agricultural potential and other environmental concerns.
Science daily

Scientists Remove Amyloid Plaques From Brains Of Live Animals With Alzheimer`s Disease
A breakthrough discovery in mice may lead to a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease that actually removes amyloid plaques -- considered a hallmark of the disease -- from patients' brains. This discovery is based on the unexpected finding that when the brain's immune cells (microglia) are activated by the interleukin-6 protein (IL-6), they actually remove plaques instead of causing them or making them worse.
Science daily

NASA photos show moon strike created plume
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said....
The Arizona Republic

Catching The Interstellar Wind: Spacecraft Finds Ribbon-like Structure At Edge Of Heliosphere
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way galaxy. The new view will change the way researchers view and study the interaction between our galaxy and sun. Results include the discovery of a narrow ribbon of bright details or emissions not resembling any of the current theoretical models of the interstellar boundary region.
Science daily

Garner to Lead Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
BLACKSBURG, Va., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Harold 'Skip' Garner has been named executive director of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech. Garner joins VBI from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW), where he was professor of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine and the Philip O'Bryan Montgomery Jr., M.D. Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology. Before coming to UTSW in 1994, Garner served as a senior staff scientist and founder of the Bioscience Division at General Atomics in San Diego.
prnewswire.com

Bad memories written with lasers
Scientists use lasers to write bad memories onto the brains of flies, revealing some of the brain circuitry responsible for learning.
BBC

Making Memories With Fruit Flies
By stimulating a specific set of nerve cells in the fruit fly brain, scientists have tricked the flies into behaving as though they felt a pain they never actually felt. Physiologist Gero Wiesenbock describes the experiments and explains why fruit fly memories matter.
NPR

What cloud computing project would you build with $32 million?
Ultimately the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated.
Topix.net

This week`s top stories [16 October 2009]
Our top articles ranked by reader popularity.Adaptive games promise high scores for everyoneToday on New Scientist: 9 October 2009Melting glaciers bring 1980s pollution revivalReview: Cracking the Einstein Code by Fulvio MeliaReview: Botanica Magnifica by Jonathan SingerInnovation: The psychology of Google WaveReview: The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan Edlow; Diagnosis by Lisa SandersLearning to juggle grows brain networks for goodReview: Quantum Leaps by Jeremy BernsteinThis week's top stories [09 October 2009]
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