VIDEO
New 杏吧原创 TV Among our videos this week: a simulation reveals how the Achilles tendon gives humans the ability to run more efficiently than any other primate; a lab-based tsunami simulator improves our understanding of their destructive force; and how injecting crayfish with fluorescent dye shows that males get turned on by urine
NEUROSCIENCE
鈥楾ime Lords鈥� discovered in California The discovery of a new form of synaesthesia suggests that 1 human in 50 has the power of perceiving the 鈥済eography of time鈥�
TECHNOLOGY
Be energy smart 鈥� keep up with the Joneses Governments have seized upon smart meters as the favoured method of reducing domestic energy consumption. Initial studies are suggesting that consumers are unswayed by projected cost savings but will copy a neighbour鈥檚 energy-efficient behaviour
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ZOOLOGGER
Rotting corpses keep thieving squatters happy How do you deal with squatters who keep stealing your food? The golden silk orb-weaver spider has resorted to a gruesome strategy
SPACE
Did a comet swarm strike North America 13,000 years ago? Add a new suspect to the list of what might have killed off the ice-age megafauna of North America 鈥� a barrage of debris from a disintegrating comet. Rather than a giant comet blowing a single crater in the North American ice sheet, the debris would have filled the sky with a series of megatonne-scale explosions
BUMPOLOGY
Moderate stress might boost fetal brain With five months to go before she gives birth to her first baby, Linda Geddes launches a weekly column looking at the science of pregnancy