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Today on New Scientist: 18 November 2011

Full-disc encryption is too good, complain CSI teams

Full-disc encryption is a major consumer security leap. But it's got forensic scientists tearnig their hair out

Friday Illusion: Impossible straw and pin trick

Watch a straw appear to pass through a safety pin and find out how the trick works

Mouse-eared rotifer poses for photomicrography prize

A microscopic underwater animal with lobes reminiscent of a cartoon mouse is captured in the act of creating a building block for its self-made home

CSI: Fleming reveals true identity of penicillin

An investigation of the lab in which Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic suggests the find has been misunderstood for 80 years

Spot cancer before it starts with nanoscale microscopy

Advanced microscopy can look into the heart of cells to find tiny changes in DNA, potentially allowing diseases to be identified years before they take hold

Light pulled out of empty space

You can get something from nothing - as long as you are moving through a vacuum close to the speed of light

Nobel psychologist reveals the error of our ways

Daniel Kahneman has made a career challenging our choices, intuition and ideas of happiness. He talks about the cognitive slip-ups we make every day

Is there life for stem cells after Geron?

Geron Corporation's shock halt on its stem-cell therapy trial could give treatments based on "adult" cells the commercial edge, at least for now

Our deluded minds are just trying to make us happy

Changing the way you'll think about thinking, David DiSalvo explains What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Yacht's attempt to smash sailing's 'sound barrier'

The Vestas Sailrocket 2 is based on an 40-year-old design but could be the first boat to ever sail at 60 knots

Wonders of nature win out at the Royal Society

The Wavewatcher's Companion, a captivating exploration of waves in their many and varied forms, is awarded this year's Winton Prize for Science Books

Why dyed hair is dull and lifeless

Dry, damaged, oily, blond? When it comes to hair type only thickness and dye really matter, a nanoscopic analysis of hair reveals

Astrophile: Supercritical water world does somersaults

The planet 55 Cancri e is the most watery world found yet, but its great ocean is a strange hybrid of liquid and gas

Feedback: Plight of the imprisoned executives

Business-class jail cells, a scientific prediction you can bank on, anxious bedbugs, and more

New results show neutrinos still faster than light

Two additional weeks of observations have not made the controversial result go away

'Third wheel' stars get cast out at high speeds

Single stars that try to come between a tight stellar pair are kicked into space at breakneck speeds, new simulations suggest

Humans learn to walk like rats

We may be the only animal to move around upright on two legs, but babies learn to walk in the same way that rats, cats, monkeys and birds do

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