Thursday, February 7, 2013

Today on New Scientist: 7 February 2013

Light-taming window conjures Turing's image

Watch how a surface can be manipulated to cast images, allowing designers to paint with light

New map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise

Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires are in for some of the biggest sea-level rises by 2100, finds one of the most comprehensive predictions to date

Tour of the body hardly gets under the skin

Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams aims to reveal the body's workings, but devotes too much space to cultural connotations and too little to science

The dragon that evolved into a pterosaur

A closer look at a taxidermied dragon has debunked the creationist theory that it proves pterosaurs died out just a few hundred years ago

Faith leaders belong at the forefront of conservation

Dekila Chungyalpa, director of WWF's new Sacred Earth programme, says it's time for religious leaders to start preaching for the environment

Radical reforms might not save Europe's fish stocks

Major reforms to the Common Fisheries Policy promise to rescue European fisheries, but quotas may still be set too high

Parcel sensor knows your delivery has been dropped

The Droptag sensor could prevent you having to accept delivery of smashed goods that you've ordered online

Crowdsourcing grows up as online workers unite

Employer reviews, a living wage, and even promotions: crowd-working on sites like Amazon's Mechanical Turk is shaking off its exploitative past

Light Show tricks meaning out of physics and biology

A new exhibition plays with the physics of light to show just how important it is to our perception of the world

Widespread high-tech doping blights Australian sport

"Blackest day" for sport as a new report finds perfomance-enhancing drug use is rife in Australia

Three-legged robot uses exploding body to jump

Watch a rubbery robot leap into the air thanks to an internal blast of burning gases

How should we use the keys to sleep?

Technology now lets us manipulate the stages of sleep, potentially giving us a fast track to blissful rest, but we meddle with sleep at our own risk

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