Saturday, August 20, 2011

Today on New Scientist: 18 August 2011

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Microsoft finds holes in secret encryption key, market stall science, and a gallery of pestilence

Microkillers: A gallery of pestilence

They are microscopic, beautiful and deadly too. Organisms responsible for the demise of millions of people down the generations have been turned into art

Female genital mutilation becomes less common in Egypt

Legislation is finally helping to reduce the numbers of girls undergoing traditional genital mutilation in the north African country

First successful prediction of an underwater eruption

Watch the aftermath of an undersea volcanic eruption that was forecast from previous activity

Market stall science: Wake up and smell the cocoa

Wendy Zukerman heads to the market place to learn the science of chocolate, bread and instant ice cream

Microsoft finds holes in top-secret encryption key

The Advanced Encryption Standard, used to protect US government secrets, is less secure than we thought

Famine-struck Somalia faces cholera outbreak

The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years - now Somalia faces an outbreak of cholera too

The Apprentice winner: Win for the geeks

The Apprentice winner Tom Pellereau talks to New Scientist about how to turn your inventions into business success

Datacasting: What will you buy tomorrow?

Jim Giles and Peter Aldhous put a new breed of number-crunching forecasters to their toughest test yet - predicting sales of New Scientist

Mammals caught on candid camera

The first global study to use camera traps to assess mammal populations has obtained 51,000 animal photos. See the best

Need to block a coffee ring? Send in the torpedoes

There's now a way to stop the pesky coffee ring effect, which causes paints and inks to coat surfaces unevenly

Internet databases reveal new uses for old drugs

Trawling online drug and gene databases has helped identify drugs that work against illnesses beyond their original use

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