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Today on New Scientist: 30 March 2012

See where the US wind blows

Google's digital artists Fernanda Vi?gas and Martin Wattenberg have created a live wind map of the US that traces the the winds in close to real time

Smart windows keep heat out - but let light in

Smart windows that change how much heat they let in will soon be able to keep you nice and cool

The matter of your brain

A new exhibition demonstrates how wide the gap remains between our understanding of brain and mind

Biobank promises to pinpoint the cause of disease

The launch of the UK Biobank, the world's largest medical database, will reveal the effects of genes and environment on health

Friday Illusion: Ghostly spiral appears from nowhere

Watch a new unexplained illusion that produces a dramatic moving after-image

Feedback: Feedback can be dangerous

Why smokers need quantum superpowers, the not-so-smart state, LEO just doesn't add up, and more

How large is warming effect of North Sea gas leak?

The global warming impact of a major offshore gas leak could be equivalent to the emissions associated with 3 per cent of the UK's electricity demand

How to turn old plastic bags into racing cars

Chemists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have discovered how to turn the plastic into useful carbon fibres

Lightning directed by laser beams

For the first time, lasers have triggered and diverted lightning bolts

Get tantric at meal times to enjoy what you eat

A professional food taster aims to use science to show how to savour flavour PLUS: how computing became ubiquitous and the search for our human origins

A tale of two classics: biology vs economics

What happens when you dissect the work of one of the most influential economists using the scalpel of evolutionary theory, asks David Sloan Wilson

Earth has little to fear from a black hole attack

Small black holes that may be roaming space undetected would leave Earth unscathed if they hit us

Apollo 11 rocket engines may be dredged from the sea

Ahead of the centenary of the Titanic's sinking, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces the discovery of other historic relics at the bottom of the ocean

Age of oldest rocks off by millions of years

The solar system's natural timekeepers have been caught misbehaving, spelling trouble for how we chart its history and date its material

Life-extending drug without the negative side effects

Teasing apart the diabetes-causing and life-extending properties of a drug gives rise to a potential "elixir of life"

Pesticides cause bees to lose their bearings

A group of widely used pesticides subtly affect the insects' behaviour, and may be partly to blame for their falling populations

Human brain organised like a 3D 'New York City' grid

If you straighten out its folds, the brain seems to be a three-dimensional grid of nerve fibres

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