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Today on New Scientist: 3 February 2012

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Tiny volcanic moon controls Jupiter's auroras

Stuff spewed out of Io's hyperactive volcanoes make the rings of auroral light on Jupiter's poles grow and shrink

Friday Illusion: Rotating rings create phantom spiral

See how circles made up of tilted squares can warp your perception

How's your willpower? Take our survey and find out

Do you have the willpower to resist our survey? Take it and the results will be analysed by Roy F. Baumeister to check your self-control

Double-sided touchscreen changes when you fold it

A projection-based touchpad demonstrates the wide range of uses for a foldable touchscreen that can act like an iPad, or a book

Brain-eavesdropping tech can't steal your thoughts

Mind-reading technology notwithstanding, there is no prospect of anyone looking inside your skull without your consent

High time to welcome the friendly drones

Attempts to fly drones in civilian airspace are a classic example of an irresistible force (innovation) meeting an immovable object (the law)

Spitzer peers through the dust into star nursery

Cygnus X, a churning cloud of dust and gas, is one of the richest star-birth regions in our galaxy - an infrared space telescope has shown it as never before

Designs for eradicating medical mistakes

An exhibition at London's Hunterian Museum demonstrates how good design can combat human errors in the hospital.

Rapid nerve repair helps lame rats walk within days

A new procedure holds promise for swift recovery of people paralysed by nerve injuries

Civilian drones to fill the skies after law shake-up

Law changes mean uncrewed aerial vehicles aren't just for the military any more - civilian uses are taking off, too

Malaria may kill far more people than we thought

Models suggest that malaria kills eight times as many adults in Africa as the World Health Organization estimates

Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system

A cloud of interstellar matter envelops the solar system - new observations reveal just how alien it is

Visualization Challenge winners show spectacular science

The oniony layers of an eyeball and the crevices of a new material are among the winners of the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

First brain movie captures a mouse thinking

Watch the first high-resolution images of mouse brain cells sending and receiving signals

Slow graphene down, speed computers up

Graphene is hailed for its astonishing conductivity but a way to kill this easy flow of electrons brings superfast computers closer

Triple-star system may host habitable world

A potentially rocky planet has been found smack dab in the middle of its star's habitable zone - its host star orbits a pair of more distant suns

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