Other goodies from the latest New Scientist:
- ” The Kursk, the Russian navy’s doomed sunken submarine, has been raised and is set to begin its final journey to a naval base near Murmansk.”
- “A (drunken) man who shot a hole in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline last week caused one of the biggest spills since the pipeline opened in 1977, say local clean-up workers.
The Aleyska Pipeline Service Company has patched the hole, but workers will spend months cleaning up the 8000 square metre site covered with an estimated 1.1 million litres (285,000 gallons) of crude oil.”
- “An unobtrusive prototype (wristwatch) device that allows the wearer to run a computer with hand gestures is revealed in Switzerland.”
- Sue postmortem reveals extensive injuries: “A postmortem of the most complete T. rex yet found reveals evidence of numerous injuries and infections.”
