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Today on New Scientist: 14 December 2011

Cloud suicide will wake black hole sleeping giant

A bust-up between a gas cloud and the Milky Way's supermassive black hole will generate flares of radiation that could explain why it is normally placid

Big ships go green with retro technology

From solar sails, or even canvas ones, to underwater carpets of air, a raft of new technologies could revolutionise the global shipping industry

Jackson the elephant seal tracked travelling 29,000 km

A baby-faced elephant seal nicknamed Jackson has been tracked completing an epic journey while searching for food

I want to give poor children computers and walk away

Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind One Laptop per Child

Supreme Court to judge on patents for treating disease

Medics say patent for guidelines on drug dosage should not be recognised since doctors already understood relationship between dosage and the body

Grimm design? A fairy palace made of baby teeth

Artist Gina Czarnecki makes cushions from human fat and a palace from children's teeth

Mystery of the male ostrich's erection solved

The few birds that have penises erect them using a low-pressure fluid that doesn't work very well

One-Minute Physics: How wind can take down a bridge

Watch an animation that debunks a typical explanation for the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse

Brave the mall maze with indoor positioning systems

Several new technologies aim to keep you on track when traversing giant shopping malls and other confusing buildings

Zoologger: My brain's so big it spills into my legs

Little spiders have a big problem - their brains are so big they have literally spilled out of their body cavities and into their legs

Fastest ever camera captures light in a flash

The camera records one trillion exposures per second and could be used for medical and industrial imaging

Power of Babel: Why one language isn't enough

Humans speak 7000 different tongues - and not just to be difficult. Everything from genes to jungles has played a part, says David Robson

Riot shields could scatter crowds with 'wall of sound'

Shields that emit low-frequency pressures waves to hamper breathing would disperse crowds safely, a new patent claims

Why psychiatrists should mind their language

American Madness: The rise and fall of dementia praecox is the history of the old name for schizophrenia, showing the problems with such labels

Orang-utans digest their own muscles to survive

Faced with chronic food shortages, orang-utans adopt a radical strategy to stave off starvation

World's fastest cells race for the first time

Watch human eye cells train for a ground-breaking microscopic competition

Hairier is better - bedbugs bite our barest bits

Compared to other primates, we are a relatively naked ape. The fine hairs we have left could help us fight off the bedbugs' bite

Ultra-flat cells give buttercup its yellow glow

The key to the buttercup's chin-brightening gleam seems to lie in the exceptionally flat cells of its epidermal layer

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