Friday, December 2, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 2 December 2011

Digital face transplant for low-budget movies

A low-cost method of swapping faces on video could make it easy to ditch your film's star even if you don't have Hollywood funding

Friday Illusion: Ghostly images change shape

See how focusing on coloured circles or hexagons can have a shape-shifting effect

See Flickr's daily photo deluge in hard copies

A torrent of photo prints shows how 24 hours on Flickr can swamp us in images

Gorgeous predators pictured in the wild

See our pick of Roger Hooper's shots of formidable animals at home in the wild

Vital utilities vulnerable to hacking

Cyberattacks could easily bring down infrastructure such as water facilities and power plants, as recent events have shown. But help is at hand

Caught between the moon and a jug of cheese puffs

A new exhibition from Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro juxtaposes extremes of ambition and indulgence in the American quest for the stars

Enhance your senses: High-tech ways to play

Sometimes the best inventions are just for fun. Watch our video special on the greatest tech from the 2011 Siggraph Asia conference

Let's build a beacon to tell aliens who we were

Chris Wilson suggests that the job of active SETI should be to build a monument to our civilisation before humans go extinct

Airbursts trigger dust avalanches on Mars

Shock waves from falling meteorites set off huge landslides, scouring the Martian surface

Bridging the gap between science and business

Our Big Wide World blogger used to fall asleep in the mandatory undergraduate business lectures, so why is she studying an MBA alongside her PhD?

Feedback: A catalogue of dodgy ads

Spray on hormones to help you lose weight, improve your memory with earlobe exercise, Brian Cox teaches astrology, and more

Seek 'em here, seek 'em there: Anonymous is everywhere

When online skulduggery breaks out, all fingers point at the hacktivist pranksters

Flerovium and livermorium may join periodic table

The heaviest confirmed elements in the periodic table, 114 and 116, may be named for the institutions that forged them

Entangled diamonds blur quantum-classical divide

Two diamonds large enough to pick up with your fingers have been made to share one quantum state - the feat is normally achieved with much smaller objects

Global surveillance supermarket offered to dictators

When despots want to intercept private communications, they have no problem finding vendors willing to help, a document release reveals

Anonymous' 'Robin Hood' attacks may benefit banks

The hacktivists' plan to rob from the rich and give to the poor using stolen credit cards is likely to backfire

Why some wasps are good with faces - and others aren't

You don't want to mess with Ms Big, so it's useful if you recognise her when you see her. So useful that even wasps can do it

Soot coating creates self-cleaning surface

Black soot could be the key to creating transparent materials that can repel both oil and water - perfect for self-cleaning lenses or touchscreens

Voyager space probes show outsiders' view of Milky Way

A particular wavelength of light can be seen from across the universe, but until now emissions from our own galaxy have been lost in the sun's glare

3D rabbit appears on screen made of mist

See a new display system made of fog that allows users to interact with 3D projections

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