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The Games Master
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19926752.300-interview-the-games-master.html A microbial blob in the ocean grows pincers and a flagellum and swims to shore. Half an hour later it “evolves” into a three-legged alien that goes on to build spaceships, colonise hostile planets and dominate the galaxy. This is the hugely hyped new game Spore, brainchild of Will Wright, who also created SimCity [...]
The Itch
Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. by Atul Gawande June 30, 2008 Scientists once saw itching as a form of pain. They now believe it to be a different order of sensation. Photograph by Gerald Slota. Keywords Itching; Scratching; Oaklander, Anne Louise (Dr.); Neurology; Brain; Obsessive-Compulsive [...]
Keep Your Head（《新科学家》8月27日）【小红猪翻译小分队】
When the calm voice of reason is drowned out by screaming emotions, how can we make good decisions? Michael Bond pauses for thought YOU’RE at the airport about to take a flight when you suddenly realise you forgot to buy travel insurance. You go to your airline’s ticket desk where they offer you a choice: [...]
Welcome to the virosphere（《新科学家》8月27日）【小红猪翻译小分队】
Without these unsung heroes of evolution we’d be up the primordial creek without a paddle.Garry Hamilton investigates FEW aspects of evolution are harder to explain than the emergence of complexity. How did the first cell emerge from the primordial soup? How did natural selection come up with a marvel as complex as the human [...]
Born To Be Wired
原文链接 BORN TO BE WIRED Stunning performance, awesome economy, no compromise. Electric cars are coming of age, says Jim Giles WE’RE crawling bumper-to-bumper down El Camino Real, a four-lane highway out of San Francisco, when a gap opens up in the traffic ahead. My driver, multimillionaire Elon Musk, seizes the opportunity and steps on the [...]
Dinner’s dirty secret（新科学家）[小红猪]
Your shopping basket is spewing greenhouse gases.But don’t worry, you can easily cut out the culprits, says Bijal Trivedi 原文链接http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19926731.700-what-is-your-dinner-doing-to-the-climate.html LOCAL or imported? Conventional or organic? Can you make choices that will keep your diet healthy and reduce your carbon footprint? Is it possible to eat green? Does it even matter? It may surprise you [...]
Particle physics: The race to break the standard model（Nature)【小红猪】
The Large Hadron Collider is the latest attempt to move fundamental physics past the frustratingly successful 'standard model'. But it is not the only way to do it. Geoff Brumfiel surveys the contenders attempting to capture the prize before the collider gets up to speed. Geoff Brumfiel 原文链接：http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/455156a.html It is powerful; it is galling; it [...]
The ice age that never was（《新科学家》9月3日封面）【小红猪】
原文链接: http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19926721.600-the-ice-age-that-never-was.html The climate changers Were we spared from an ice age by Stone Age farmers? Hazel Muir investigates THE romantic notion that early humans lived in harmony with their environment has taken quite a battering lately. Modern humans may have started eliminating other species right from the start: our ancestors stand accused of wiping [...]
The Sky Line-out of the blocks （《纽约客》2008年8月11日）【小红猪翻译小分队】
原文来自《纽约客》，2008年6月2日，链接http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2008/06/02/080602crsk_skyline_goldberger photo: The steel lattice surrounding the Beijing National Stadium looks like a giganitic sculpture, but most of the beams are structural, not decorative. Photograph by Iwan Baan. To understand just how important the Beijing Olympics are to China, you have only to look at where the Olympic Green has been built. During Beijing’s [...]
