Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:03:31 -0800 From: popeAdd to Address Book Add To Spam Block List Subject: FW: New Scientist Newsletter 29 Jan 2000 To: herdman@my-dejanews.com Reply To: herdman@my-dejanews.com Date: 26 Jan 2000 21:50 GMT NEW SCIENTIST WEEKLY NEWSLETTER No 18 29 January 2000 Welcome to your weekly digest of stories and snippets from New Scientist. It's a nice life if you're a robot. You just can't lose. If you're smart they'll want you. And if you're not, they'll still want you... For example, if you had to tackle a complex task, would you deliberately pick six stupid robots to help you? Ronald Kube would. Just why does a robotics expert at the Edmonton Research Park in Alberta want to work with a team of mindless machines? New Scientist finds out. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223111 Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the robotics spectrum, there's nothing mindless about NASA's latest leading light. Fitted with a laser rangefinder to detect obstacles in its path and a high-resolution camera to zoom in on interesting rocks, Nomad is looking for meteorites in eastern Antarctica. "This is not a case of a human sitting there operating the robot with a joystick," says program head, Ralph Harvey. "The robot is doing the search itself, and making decisions on its own." http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223119 THE BIG ISSUE Human cloning will always be an ethical minefield. Or will it? A company linked to the team that created Dolly the sheep is working on a cloning technique that would no longer need to use human egg cells. And it claims already to have promising results. Is this the medical breakthrough which could overcome ethical obstacles and revolutionise the treatment of conditions such as Parkinson's disease? http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223108 THE SHINING It glows, it floats through walls and it can kill you. It may sound like something out of a Hollywood horror movie, but it's less predictable. This week's Last Word section looks at the very peculiar and rare phenomenon of ball lightning. http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/lastword.jsp?id=lw1148 LOVING A COLD CLIMATE Jean-Robert Petit has a passion for ancient ice. "It's just water. But it's marvellous water. In the bubbles trapped in the ice you have samples of air from an ancient atmosphere," he enthuses. We talk to the Swiss glaciologist who is one of the first Western experts to study climate change at a remote Soviet research station, high up on the Antarctic plateau. http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion.jsp?id=ns2223106 OUR FLEXIBLE FRIENDS What has a fish got to do with a computer screen that you can roll up and stuff in your pocket? Just about everything, according to researchers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco. In order to combine the power of silicon with the flexibility of plastic, we will need to understand the strange zone where organisation gives way to anarchy - and that, apparently, is where the Antarctic flounder comes in... New Scientist investigates research which could lead to a whole new era of cheap, bendy and disposable electronics. http://www.newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns222391 LANGUAGE BARRIER "AS" is a 41-year-old woman. "IFA" is a 52-year-old man. Both are patients who have suffered strokes and have the same difficulty naming objects, reading and repeating words. But Alfonso Caramazza at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachussetts, has noticed a striking difference in their language problems. "AS" struggles with vowels, while "IFA" has a particularly hard time with consonants. We consider evidence which seems to indicate that we process vowels and consonants in different parts of our brains. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223118 EARLY LEARNING Would you want to get inside the head of a squid? William Gilly and Thomas Preuss at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California, are making it their daily business to do just that. Gilly and Thomas have found that if they feed one group of hatchlings on slow shrimp and another group on speedy copepods they end up with adult squid with quite different "hunting brains". The next step is to track down the molecules that bring about these early changes. And if they can do that, they may discover how the brains of animals and people are shaped. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223116 AND FINALLY, here's a little something for the soft-hearted. Albino penguins are not renowned for being lucky in love. They almost never pair, and are often ostracised by other penguins in their colonies. On his latest trip to Antarctica, however, Jun Nishikawa of the Ocean Research Institute in Tokyo spotted a penguin which, despite a few dark feathers on its back and a red bill, was predominantly white. And? Yes! It was incubating an egg. So, fingers crossed... http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2223109 Read more New Scientist at http://www.newscientist.com For people who love ideas: subscribe to New Scientist and have it delivered to your door every week, at: http://www.newscientist.com/nsnlsubs.html Looking for a new job? 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