Computer games may be spawning reckless drivers

Young drivers who played car-based computer games in their mid-teens are more likely to say they drive fast and dangerously in the real world

Dato: Fri, 03 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19399
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Innovation: Sunrise boulevards could bring clean power

Could roads surfaced with solar panels bring renewable energy to our doors?

Dato: Fri, 27 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19374
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Innovation: A real live Grand Prix in your living room

Two systems now on the starter's grid will allow gamers to compete against real-world professional drivers in real time

Dato: Fri, 23 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19219
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Too soon to blame Toyota drivers for throttle problems

Early investigations into Toyota cars that accelerated out of control points the finger at driver error. But the electronic throttle is not foolproof

Dato: Fri, 23 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727704.800
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Green machine: The dream of green cars meets reality

There is plenty of hype around greener cars, but meeting drivers' performance expectations is proving hard

Dato: Mon, 05 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19129
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Green machine: Cars could run on sunlight and CO2

Solar-powered reactors promise a route to carbon-neutral motoring running on synthetic fuels

Dato: Wed, 02 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18993
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Infrared cameras could stop road tunnel fires

A new automated system could save lives by spotting overheating components in vehicles before they get into the tunnel

Dato: Sat, 15 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627605.100
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Modern cars vulnerable to malicious hacks

Computer security researchers gain control of the brakes and engine after hacking into a family car's control system

Dato: Fri, 14 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18901
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Green machine: Rethinking internal combustion engines

It may never be loved by environmentalists, but the internal combustion engine could improve its reputation as polluter-in-chief – here's how

Dato: Tue, 13 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18769
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Look, no hands: Cars that drive better than you

Self-driving cars are safer, cleaner and make better use of precious road space – so what's stopping them?

Dato: Tue, 06 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627542.100
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Electronic car bugs: What drivers need to know

Computers and other electronics now control critical systems in many cars. Has their complexity introduced new risks – and what happens when they fail?

Dato: Mon, 29 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527536.900
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Sugar-rubber tyre inches closer to the road

Bacteria and fungi have been genetically modified to feed on plant material and excrete an important component of tyre rubber

Dato: Mon, 29 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18710
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Electric cars jostle for position on the power grid

When the surge of plug-in vehicles hits the streets over the next few years, how will our electricity grids cope?

Dato: Fri, 12 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527515.700
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Toyota car recall sparks 'drive by wire' concerns

The world's largest car maker insists the problem behind its mass recall is mechanical – but fingers are being pointed at the electronic throttle

Dato: Thu, 04 Feb 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18485
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Cars learn to keep an eye on the weather

In-car systems that monitor weather and road conditions could slash the number of road accidents

Dato: Wed, 03 Feb 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527455.600
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Dung beetles' secret superpower: ultimate night sight

The cowpat munchers have astonishingly sophisticated visual systems – and they're teaching us a few tricks about seeing in the dark

Dato: Tue, 12 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527422.200
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Designing highways the slime mould way

Slime moulds mimic real road networks between oat-flake "cities" – and make suggestions of their own

Dato: Sat, 09 Jan 2010
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New Scientist – Climate Change
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Dato: Tue, 19 Jul 2011

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Japanese power cuts linked to heatstroke deaths

People may be putting their lives at risk by using less air conditioning to save power

Dato: Tue, 19 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20716
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Shipping industry agrees CO2 emission standards

The shipping industry has become the first to set global mandatory carbon dioxide standards &amp;ndash; but they will apply only from 2019

Dato: Tue, 19 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20713
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Australia is first nation to put a price on carbon

Australia has just announced plans for a carbon tax, beginning in July next year

Dato: Mon, 11 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20673
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Second world war bombers changed the weather

Allied bombing raids inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails that affected local temperatures

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20667
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Thousands of gas leaks under Boston and San Francisco

Agei ng pipes are responsible for leaks of natural gas all over the US and elsewhere which can contribute to global warming

Dato: Wed, 06 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128203.800
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Earth's oceans on course for mass extinction

It is all thanks to a deadly combination of climate change, overexploitation, pollution and habitat loss

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20595
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Planting forests won't stop global warming

Converting all of the world's croplands into forests would offset the rise in temperatures this century by only a fraction of a degree

Dato: Sun, 19 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20587
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Conflict of interest claimed for IPCC energy report

An IPCC press release suggested a bright future for renewable energy &amp;ndash; now it turns out that a Greenpeace employee was involved in the full report

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20583
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Global warming not to blame for 2011 droughts

Droughts may be occurring from China to Texas, but climate change models suggest global warming is not responsible

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028173.100
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Recent warming trend is significant after all

The increase in temperature between 1995 and 2009 was not statistically significant &amp;ndash; but adding data from 2010 has changed that

Dato: Tue, 14 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20571
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Wired Californian forests to guide response to climate

Two forests wired up to track water should help the US's most populous state adapt to a warming world in which the stuff becomes increasingly scarce

Dato: Thu, 09 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028164.300
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The end is always nigh in the human mind

Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It's part of our psychology, says Michael Shermer <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10928/s/15b720e7/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+end+is+always +nigh+in+the+human+mind&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.c om%2Farticle%2Fmg21028156.300-the-end-is-always-nigh-in-the-human-mi nd.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dclimate-change http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471408525/u/173/f/10928/c/749/s/15b7 20e7/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471408525/u/173/f/10928/c/749/s/15b7 20e7/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.300
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Record carbon emissions mean 2 °C rise ever closer

Despite the financial crisis, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions hit new heights last year – but we shouldn't give up on emissions targets just yet

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20525
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Pacific shouldn't amplify climate change

The warming climate won't force the Pacific to dump heat into the air, but it might make El Niños and La Niñas more common

Dato: Wed, 25 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20509
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Reshaping the Mississippi for a warmer future

The levees and spillways have held back most of this year's floods – but how should they be adapted for an eroding coastline and a changing climate?

Dato: Wed, 25 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028143.800
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Greenland ice in no hurry to raise seas

Global warming is causing Greenland's glaciers to dump ever more ice into the sea – but the effect on sea levels may be smaller than feared

Dato: Mon, 16 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20484
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Renewables may supply 80 per cent of our energy by 2050

A bullish report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests an optimistic vision of the future &amp;ndash; with the right government support

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20465
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Crop yields fall as temperatures rise

The steep rise in global temperatures since 1980 has cut yields of staple crops, offsetting gains from better farming

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20449
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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Global warming is making bird shrink, plants flower earlier and species spread to areas that were once too cold for them, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10928/s/149e05eb/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+race+against+climate+change&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.000-unnatural-selection-the-ra ce-against-climate-change.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dclimat e-change http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439452/u/173/f/10928/c/749/s/149e 05eb/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439452/u/173/f/10928/c/749/s/149e0 5eb/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.000
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The hunt is on for million-year-old ice core

A million years ago the pulsing of Earth's climate mysteriously slowed – air bubbles trapped in ice since that time may tell us why

Dato: Fri, 29 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028105.100
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Searching for the climate refugees

There were supposed to be 50 million climate refugees by the end of last year, so where are they? New Scientist>/b< investigates

Dato: Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028104.600
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Warmer oceans release CO2 faster than thought

The oceans' vast stores of carbon dioxide can escape into the atmosphere quickly, according to a new study, enhancing the effects of global warming

Dato: Mon, 25 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20413
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Melting sea ice leaves Arctic vulnerable to erosion

The Arctic coastline is crumbling into the sea, where it lacks a protective shelf of sea ice

Dato: Mon, 18 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20389
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Growing sugarcane could help cool Brazil

Converting Brazil's existing farmland to sugarcane for biofuel could slightly cool the local climate

Dato: Mon, 18 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20388
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Ten years to save Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Carbon dioxide emissions must be cut within a decade to give the reef system a fighting chance of survival

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New Scientist – Comets and Asteroids
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Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011

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Probe's targets cloud 'crystal ball' for solar system

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is set to go into orbit around the first of two asteroids that, ironically, are the main stumbling blocks to predicting the solar system's fate

Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20704
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Saturn moon's atmosphere forged by comet impacts

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with much of an atmosphere, but the origin of its nitrogen-rich air has been a puzzle

Dato: Sun, 08 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20456
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Asteroids make life's raw materials

Rocks from an asteroid have been shown to power the synthesis of life's essential chemicals for the first time

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028114.000
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Hobbyist photos used to recreate comet orbit

The array of amateur photos available online could lead to new discoveries, such as unanticipated supernova or gamma ray bursts< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hobbyist+photos+u sed+to+recreate+comet+orbit&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscienti st.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20371-hobbyist-photos-used-to-recreate-comet-orb it.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomets-asteroids http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100169975940/u/173/f/10945/c/749/s/142a 5302/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100169975940/u/173/f/10945/c/749/s/142a5 302/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20371
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NASA kills off comet hunter

The Stardust spacecraft burned the last of its fuel on Thursday in an experiment designed to help engineers plan future missions

Dato: Fri, 25 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20299
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Found: crater from Deep Impact's comet crash

More than five years after the Deep Impact mission fired a projectile into Comet Tempel 1, a second spacecraft has imaged the resulting scar

Dato: Tue, 15 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20135
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Smash rocks to test how planets form

Colliding two giant granite balls could help us understand how planets formed in the early solar system

Dato: Mon, 07 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927985.500
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Probe to survey comet dented by Deep Impact mission

NASA's Deep Impact mission failed to spot the crater it gouged out of a comet in 2005 &amp;ndash; now another probe will try to image the damage during an upcoming fly-by

Dato: Wed, 19 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20006
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Geminid meteors set to dazzle

The predicted peak of the shower comes on Tuesday, when two shooting stars may grace the skies every minute

Dato: Mon, 13 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19856
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Lucky strike gave Earth its gold

A final barrage of medium-sized rocks is responsible for our stocks of gold and other essential metals

Dato: Thu, 09 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19844
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Space debris may cause mysterious ball lightning

A strange, bouncing orb of light seen by an Australian farmer in 2006 was triggered by a meteor, a new study suggests< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Space+debris+may +cause+mysterious+ball+lightning&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsci entist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19789-space-debris-may-cause-mysterious-ball-l ightning.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomets-asteroids http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88739193709/u/173/f/10945/c/749/s/10281 a56/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88739193709/u/173/f/10945/c/749/s/10281a 56/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 01 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19789
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Comet caught throwing basketball-sized snowballs

The phenomenon, which has never been seen before, was observed by NASA's Deep Impact probe during a recent flyby of Comet Hartley 2

Dato: Thu, 18 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19749
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Spacecraft is first to bring asteroid dust to Earth

A capsule from the Japanese probe Hayabusa returned to Earth earlier this year, but only now is it clear that the dust inside it came from an asteroid

Dato: Tue, 16 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19730
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Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining

A 10-kilometre-wide rock did for the dinosaurs, but smashed open a window of opportunity for unimpressive little animals called mammals

Dato: Fri, 01 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727796.100
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Solved: mystery of the meteor-shedding asteroid

Comets cause most meteor showers, but the Geminids trail a rocky asteroid – now we know why

Dato: Thu, 23 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727794.100
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Ancient Greeks spotted Halley's comet

Halley's comet and a meteorite the size of a "wagonload" triggered a turning point in ancient Greek astronomy

Dato: Thu, 09 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727774.400
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Trojan asteroids make planetary scientist lose sleep

The sizes of asteroids near Jupiter spell trouble for the leading theory of how our solar system evolved

Dato: Fri, 03 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727765.100
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Jupiter attacked for third time in 13 months

Amateur astronomers bear witness to yet another impact on the giant planet, suggesting such run-ins are fairly common

Dato: Mon, 23 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19354
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Neptune 'dead zones' hold more rocks than asteroid belt

The icy world may have a personal rock collection that dwarfs the objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

Dato: Thu, 12 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19309
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NASA mulls sending part of space station to an asteroid

Agency engineers suggest detaching one of the station's current crew compartments and using it to ferry astronauts to an asteroid by 2025

Dato: Tue, 10 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19292
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Cosmic Trojans may sneak comets towards Earth

A collection of asteroids that orbit the sun along roughly the same path as Neptune may be a source of comets that could hit Earth

Dato: Fri, 30 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727714.100
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Early stages of crater birth captured on camera

By firing a gun into the sand, we can see the moment of crater formation when debris is flung fastest and farthest

Dato: Wed, 30 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19106
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Asteroid hunters part-blinded by the military

To hide the paths of military satellites, asteroid-spotting telescopes are being deprived of nearly a quarter of their field of view

Dato: Mon, 28 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627662.800
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The fruit fly formerly know as Drosophila

The famous fly is about to be renamed – and that's a bad idea, says ecologist Kim van der Linde>/b<, while geneticist Amir Yassin>/b< says change is overdue

Dato: Tue, 15 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627656.200
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Hayabusa: The falcon has landed – what's it caught?

A capsule from the spacecraft has landed in Australia &amp;ndash; now we must wait to find out if it contains the first asteroid sample brought back to Earth

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New Scientist – Comment and Analysis
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The human paradox that is common sense

Even as common sense helps us make sense of human behaviour, it can undermine our ability to understand it, argues Duncan Watts <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/16a36e68/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+human+parado x+that+is+common+sense&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21128210.100-the-human-paradox-that-is-common-sen se.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217396721/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/16a 36e68/kg/253/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217396721/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/16a3 6e68/kg/253/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 12 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128210.100
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How computers can cure cultural diabetes

The networked computer offers an antidote to the junk culture of broadcasting. Why not choose the healthy option, says Peter Lunenfeld <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/1648d79f/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=How+computers+ca n+cure+cultural+diabetes&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21128195.700-how-computers-can-cure-cultural-diabet es.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106216002327/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/164 8d79f/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106216002327/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/164 8d79f/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 05 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128195.700
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Irradiating organic food would save lives

Organic farming must ditch its irrational mistrust of science or risk losing its reputation as being safer and healthier, says Dominic Dyer <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/1618a3af/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Irradiating+organic+ food+would+save+lives&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com %2Farticle%2Fmg21028186.200-irradiating-organic-food-would-save-lives.h tml%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106215878521/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/161 8a3af/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106215878521/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/161 8a3af/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 28 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028186.200
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The call of the weird: In praise of cryptobiologists

Scientists who search for obscure or supposedly extinct creatures are not getting the respect and recognition they deserve, says William Laurance <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/15e9acf6/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+call+of+the+w eird%3A+In+praise+of+cryptobiologists&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028176.000-the-call-of-the-weird-in-p raise-of-cryptobiologists.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomme nt-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104472039236/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/15e 9acf6/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104472039236/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/15e9 acf6/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028176.000
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Forget Mother Nature: This is a world of our making

Human s have transformed Earth beyond recovery – but rather than look back in despair we should look ahead to what we can achieve, says Erle C. Ellis <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/15bfb93e/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Forget+Mother+Na ture%3A+This+is+a+world+of+our+making&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fw ww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028165.700-forget-mother-nature- this-is-a-world-of-our-making.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dc omment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471539526/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/15b fb93e/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471539526/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/15bf b93e/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 14 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028165.700
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The end is always nigh in the human mind

Why are we so attracted to prophecies of doom, from religious raptures to environmental collapse? It's part of our psychology, says Michael Shermer <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/15977b30/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+end+is+always +nigh+in+the+human+mind&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.c om%2Farticle%2Fmg21028156.300-the-end-is-always-nigh-in-the-human-mi nd.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104470815794/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/159 77b30/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104470815794/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/159 77b30/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.300
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Time to wave the green-spangled banner

The best way to promote clean energy is to ignore climate change and focus on things like jobs, money and national security, says film-maker Peter Byck <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/15395519/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Time+to+wave+the +green-spangled+banner&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21028145.900-time-to-wave-the-greenspangled-banner. html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101094310494/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/153 95519/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101094310494/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/153 95519/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028145.900
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The climate change threat to nuclear power

Far from solving the climate problem, nuclear power may be highly vulnerable to it, says Natalie Kopytko <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/14f5b415/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+climate+change +threat+to+nuclear+power&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.c om%2Farticle%2Fmg21028138.200-the-climate-change-threat-to-nuclear-po wer.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101092980449/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/14f 5b415/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101092980449/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/14f5 b415/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.200
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Time to put weather forecasters on the spot

The reliability of weather forecasts is surprisingly hard to measure. The BBC's Weather Test will make amends, says Roger Harrabin <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/149c0aac/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Time+to+put+weath er+forecasters+on+the+spot&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist. com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028110.100-time-to-put-weather-forecasters-on-th e-spot.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101090809942/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/149 c0aac/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101090809942/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/149c 0aac/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028110.100
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Ignore big tobacco's absurd fight against plain packs

Austral ia's bold plan to remove all branding from cigarettes and their packaging is a triumph for public health, says Simon Chapman <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/14771131/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Ignore+big+tobacco %27s+absurd+fight+against+plain+packs&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028100.100-ignore-big-tobaccos-absu rd-fight-against-plain-packs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcom ment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091172461/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/147 71131/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091172461/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/147 71131/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 02 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028100.100
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The Middle East is ripe for a scientific revolution

The Arab Spring puts the Middle East in a position to become a scientific powerhouse, but it needs help, says Ahmed Zewail>/b<, US science envoy to the region

Dato: Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.700
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How to be happy: What is happiness anyway?

Psychologis t Daniel Gilbert>/b< knows exactly how happy 5000 people around the world are right now. What has he learned about our ups and downs?

Dato: Mon, 18 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028085.400
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Conservation and farming must learn to live together

Agric ulture and conservation are on collision course, and that has to change, says UN Environment Programme director Achim Steiner <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/142d96e5/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Conservation+and+f arming+must+learn+to+live+together&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.new scientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028085.100-conservation-and-farming-mus t-learn-to-live-together.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment -analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100170165295/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/142 d96e5/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100170165295/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/142 d96e5/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 18 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028085.100
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Say no to uranium mining in the Grand Canyon

Mining companies are itching to dig up the Grand Canyon's uranium deposits – and the law is on their side. They must be stopped, says Taylor McKinnon <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/13f7b6cd/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Say+no+to+uranium +mining+in+the+Grand+Canyon&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscie ntist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028075.500-say-no-to-uranium-mining-in-the- grand-canyon.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747809954/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/13f7 b6cd/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747809954/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/13f7b 6cd/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 11 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028075.500
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The fight for a fair libel law in England is not over

Th e long-overdue reform of English libel law and its chilling effect on free speech has begun, but the battle isn't won yet, warns Simon Singh <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/13c3e1dc/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+fight+for+a+fai r+libel+law+in+England+is+not+over&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028060.100-the-fight-for-a-fair-libel-law- in-england-is-not-over.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment -analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747299326/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/13c3 e1dc/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747299326/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/13c3e 1dc/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 05 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028060.100
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Don't let polio eradication slip away again

After years of frustration, polio is on the ropes. But we could still miss the historic opportunity to wipe it out for good, says Debora MacKenzie <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/1393721a/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Don%27t+let+polio +eradication+slip+away+again&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscienti st.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20928050.100-dont-let-polio-eradication-slip-away -again.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747413463/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1393 721a/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747413463/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1393 721a/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 29 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928050.100
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Banking cheats will always prosper

Clever schemes to make bankers earn their bonuses look good on paper, but economics proves they won't work, says Mark Buchanan <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/136a95fc/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Banking+cheats+will +always+prosper&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Far ticle%2Fmg20928040.100-banking-cheats-will-always-prosper.html%3FDC MP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98132216328/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/136a 95fc/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98132216328/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/136a9 5fc/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 23 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928040.100
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Removing bodies from display is nonsense

The removal of long-dead human bodies from view in museums for reburial is based on a warped notion of respect, says Søren Holm <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/133fb1f7/mf.gif' border='0'/><play-is-nonse nse.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis <img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /> < /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Removing+bodies+f rom+display+is+nonsense&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg20928030.100-removing-bodies-from-display-is-nonsen se.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614980485/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/133f b1f7/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614980485/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/133fb 1f7/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 16 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928030.100
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Tokyo geophysicist: my earthquake diary

A seismologist at the University of Tokyo recounts his day on Friday, when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan

Dato: Sun, 13 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20235
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The internet is a tyrant's friend

In our rush to celebrate the democratising power of the internet we have forgotten that it can also be a tool for repression, says Evgeny Morozov <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/1317eb8d/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+internet+is+a+t yrant%27s+friend&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fa rticle%2Fmg20928026.100-the-internet-is-a-tyrants-friend.html%3FDCMP% 3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614786646/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1317 eb8d/kg/63/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614786646/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1317e b8d/kg/63/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 08 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.100
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A country with no time for climate change scepticism

The attitude of those at the sharp end of climate change has important lessons for us all, says Adam Corner <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/12eb471a/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=A+country+with+no +time+for+climate+change+scepticism&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20928015.300-a-country-with-no-time-for- climate-change-scepticism.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcom ment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603434156/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12eb 471a/kg/42/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603434156/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12eb4 71a/kg/42/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 03 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928015.300
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Tevatron closure: There's life in the old dog yet

The closure of the Tevatron particle accelerator later this year doesn't spell the end of its glittering career, says Fermilab chief Piermaria Oddone <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/12eb4719/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Tevatron+closure% 3A+There%27s+life+in+the+old+dog+yet&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20928015.200-tevatron-closure-theres -life-in-the-old-dog-yet.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcommen t-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603434155/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12eb 4719/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603434155/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12eb4 719/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 02 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928015.200
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Looking for life on Mars? Try the salty bits

The main reason we explore Mars is to find out if life ever existed there. But we're looking in the wrong places, says Alfonso F. Davila <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/12c1c910/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Looking+for+life+o n+Mars%3F+Try+the+salty+bits&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscie ntist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20928005.900-looking-for-life-on-mars-try-the-s alty-bits.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603904780/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12c1 c910/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603904780/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/12c1c 910/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 22 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928005.900
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Let's take better care of our rare earth elements

Despite their name, rare earth elements are not especially rare. So how come we are so worried about them running out, asks Mike Pitts <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424052/s/129ad1d5/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Let%27s+take+bett er+care+of+our+rare+earth+elements&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20927995.700-lets-take-better-care-of-our -rare-earth-elements.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-a nalysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603770180/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/129a d1d5/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/94603770180/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/129ad 1d5/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 15 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927995.700
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Will intensified farming save the rainforests?

The idea that you can save the natural world by increasing the efficiency of agriculture is very appealing. But Fred Pearce>/b< is far from convinced< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Will+intensified+far ming+save+the+rainforests%3F&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscien tist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20927986.200-will-intensified-farming-save-the-rai nforests.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomment-analysis http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865575680/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1269 a891/kg/43/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865575680/u/173/f/424052/c/749/s/1269a 891/kg/43/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 09 Feb 2011
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New Scientist – Computer crime
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Lax security makes it easy to hack News International

Of the things we have learned from the News International hacking scandal, one is how not to choose a password

Dato: Tue, 19 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20715
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Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker

" Sabu>/b<", a member of the notorious hacking group LulzSec and prominent in AntiSec (the antisecurity movement) talks exclusively to New Scientist <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424065/s/166d60f5/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Exclusive+first+inter view+with+key+LulzSec+hacker&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscie ntist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20649-exclusive-first-interview-with-key-lulzsec-h acker.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomputer-crime http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106216705240/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/166 d60f5/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106216705240/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/166 d60f5/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 04 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20649
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The defenders: Inside an online siege

Who will protect your money, your identity and your secrets from hackers? Richard Fisher>/b< joins a bunch of hopefuls to find out if they're up to the task

Dato: Mon, 06 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20543
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Pentagon may fight cyberwar with rockets

How should the military respond to the threats cyber-weapons pose to essential utilities and businesses?

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20532
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Hackers trick goods out of online shopping sites

Security holes in retail shopping software used by Amazon, Buy.com and other online stores were easily exploited by researchers

Dato: Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.600
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Covert hard drive fragmentation embeds a spy's secrets

A way of hiding messages stored on a hard disc by fragmenting them avoids arousing suspicion by using obvious encryption

Dato: Thu, 21 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.200
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Online 'attack kits' let anyone become a cybercriminal

Joining the cyber-underworld has never been easier thanks to ready-made hackers' software packages for sale on the internet

Dato: Fri, 08 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20360
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Stuxnet analysis finds more holes in critical software

Dozens of security holes have been found in industrial programs, and the European Commission is launching research to defend critical infrastructure

Dato: Fri, 25 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20298
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Defending against botnet attacks – by fighting back

A way of fighting back against DDoS attacks by web activists Anonymous proved so successful it could be used to defend against other attacks

Dato: Fri, 18 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20261
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GPS chaos: How a $30 box can jam your life

Signals from GPS satellites now help you to call your mother, power your home, and even land your plane – but a cheap plastic box can scramble it all

Dato: Sun, 06 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20202
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Crowdsourced software could stop SMS spam

Text message spam causes millions of meaningless cellphone buzzes in developing countries &amp;ndash; could the power of the crowd cut it down to size?

Dato: Sat, 26 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20175
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Watch out, your lover may be cyberstalking you

While high-tech snooping is a boy thing, one-third of female students questioned said they had broken into their partner's email account

Dato: Mon, 14 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927995.500
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The cyberweapon that could take down the internet

A new form of attack would turn the internet against itself &amp;ndash; and would be extremely hard to repel

Dato: Fri, 11 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20113
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Smart tool could spot dodgy domains and block botnets

New software can follow the tracks of the web domains which online criminals use to launch their attacks

Dato: Tue, 08 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20098
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Hackers could track the person behind your usernames

Cybercriminals may be able to identify people just from their various usernames &amp;ndash; and that may spawn better-targeted spamming and phishing attacks

Dato: Mon, 07 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20094
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Smart servers spot and block botnet attacks

A new algorithm tells websites when their security is being breached – and then does something to stop it

Dato: Fri, 04 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927975.200
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Self-encrypting discs will lock down your data

A new way to protect digital secrets promises an end to accidental leaks, but may dismay law enforcers

Dato: Tue, 01 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927974.800
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Cellphone network flaw is a gift to hackers

The con works by forcing a smartphone to connect to a fake mobile base station &amp;ndash; it's much easier than you might think

Dato: Tue, 25 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20025
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Competition finds next generation of cybersleuths

A British competition to find the next generation of cybersecurity experts is showing that amateurs can often spot the clues that professionals miss

Dato: Tue, 18 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19985
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Cyberwar countermeasures a waste of money, says report

The dangers of a cyber-attack are being overhyped, says the writer of the Hacker's Handbook>/i><img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424065/s/11bdfad5/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Cyberwar+counter measures+a+waste+of+money%2C+says+report&amp;link=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19981-cyberwar-countermeasure s-a-waste-of-money-says-report.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3 Dcomputer-crime http://da.feedsportal.com/r/92774573219/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/11bd fad5/kg/43/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/92774573219/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/11bdf ad5/kg/43/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 17 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19981
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Politically charged websites face frequent attacks

WikiLeaks isn't the only victim; a new report chronicles hundreds of online attacks against media and human rights sites

Dato: Tue, 21 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19898
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Are states unleashing the dogs of cyber war?

Long rumoured, but never proven, it is becoming increasingly clear that governments must have a hand in many computer attacks

Dato: Thu, 16 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.100
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WikiLeaks wars: Digital conflict spills into real life

A leaderless army of activists is wreaking havoc on the internet. Is this a sign of cyberwars to come?< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=WikiLeaks+wars%3 A+Digital+conflict+spills+into+real+life&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20827913.400-wikileaks-wars-digital-confli ct-spills-into-real-life.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcomputer- crime http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88740469739/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/10a1 9838/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88740469739/u/173/f/424065/c/749/s/10a19 838/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 15 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827913.400
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Cryptographers chosen to duke it out in final fight

A Chinese mathematician recently brought down a gold-standard cryptographic algorithm &amp;ndash; now, the competition to find a replacement is heating up

Dato: Mon, 13 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19865
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Nuke watchdog could help prevent future stuxnets

The IAEA may add computer security to its remit after it emerged that the stuxnet computer worm was tailored to sabotage uranium enrichment

Dato: Tue, 16 Nov 2010
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New Scientist – Cosmology
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Ne w Scientist – Cosmology

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Hologram revolution: The theory changing all physics

From pre-big bang physics to the origins of mass, there may be no limit to holography's reach

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128213.900
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Tevatron particles shed light on antimatter mystery

An experiment at the US particle smasher creates more matter than antimatter &amp;ndash; just what happened moments after the big bang

Dato: Wed, 06 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128204.300
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Asteroid protoplanet may hold clues to Earth formation

The Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first photos of the asteroid Vesta, a window into the early solar system

Dato: Tue, 28 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20621
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Largest cosmic structures 'too big' for theories

Vast "hyperclusters" of galaxies festoon space, according to a new cosmic map &amp;ndash; but theory says they shouldn't exist

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20597
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Small galaxies may only give birth to small stars

It's as if small towns could only produce small people: dwarf galaxies may not be able to produce the largest stars

Dato: Fri, 10 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20559
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When the multiverse and many-worlds collide

Two of the strangest ideas in modern physics have been unified into a single theory, creating excitement and bewilderment in equal measure

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028154.200
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Theory of everything: Answering the critics

The most effective way for critics of M-theory to win their case would be to come up with a better alternative. So far nobody has
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028152.500
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Theory of everything: Have we now got one?

M-theory grew from a merger of two seemingly different approaches: 11-dimensional supergravity and 10-dimensional superstring theory
< pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028152.400
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Theory of everything: The road to unification

Our leading candidate, M-theory, has three radical ingredients: extra dimensions, supersymmetry, and extended objects called superstrings and membranes
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028152.300
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Theory of everything: The big questions in physics

General relativity breaks the quantum rules of elementary particles. Black holes threaten the foundations of quantum mechanics. Something has to give
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028152.200
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Second experiment hints at seasonal dark matter signal

For years, one lonely team has been insisting that it sees a seasonal variation in dark matter signals &amp;ndash; now another group is reporting similar findings

Dato: Tue, 03 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20434
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Catcher in the sky: The search for mystery matter

Does the universe really hold hidden seams of primordial antimatter, dark matter and even "strange matter"? A massive orbital detector is set to find out

Dato: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028071.400
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Empty universe: Cosmology in the year 100 billion

The skies of the far future will be dark and lonely, but our descendants will have one telltale clue to help them decipher the cosmos, says Marcus Chown <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10946/s/13e25b79/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Empty+universe%3 A+Cosmology+in+the+year+100+billion&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028061.400-empty-universe-cosmolog y-in-the-year-100-billion.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcosmol ogy http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747543439/u/173/f/10946/c/749/s/13e25 b79/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/98747543439/u/173/f/10946/c/749/s/13e25b 79/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 04 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028061.400
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Lunar potholes may be ideal water traps

The freezing cold recesses of recently discovered holes on the lunar surface could trap water molecules

Dato: Sun, 03 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028064.200
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Backward stars point to galactic cannibalism

Stars orbiting the wrong way in their galaxy's heart are probably the remnants of another galaxy that was eaten

Dato: Sat, 02 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028064.100
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Giant 'quasi-stars' spawned early black holes

Black holes may have formed in the bellies of gaseous cocoons, which would explain why they grew so big so fast in the early universe

Dato: Thu, 17 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928043.800
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What if supersymmetry is wrong?

Supersymmetry would solve some of the biggest mysteries in physics, but if the Large Hadron Collider can't find it there are alternatives

Newly found brown dwarf is ultra-cool

A recently discovered object is at room temperature, much cooler than other failed stars

Dato: Sat, 12 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928034.600
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Eight extremes: The biggest things in the universe

The mightiest planet, star, galaxy, artefact &amp;ndash; and hole

Dato: Fri, 11 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20189
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Eight extremes: The densest thing in the universe

Try working out the density of a black hole

Dato: Fri, 11 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.900
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Eight extremes: The darkest thing in the universe

The least bright thing in the universe is dark matter &amp;ndash; one day, perhaps we'll see it

Dato: Thu, 10 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.800
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Eight extremes: The roundest thing in the universe

Does anything live up to the medieval notion of the music of the spheres?

Dato: Thu, 10 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.700
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Eight extremes: The brightest thing in the universe

What can shine with the light of more than 30 trillion suns?

Dato: Wed, 09 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.600
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Eight extremes: The coldest thing in the universe

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Dato: Tue, 08 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928026.400
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Largest galaxies grow up gradually like snowflakes

They are monsters of the universe, but elliptical galaxies may be born like tiny snowflakes

Dato: Sat, 05 Mar 2011
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New Scientist – Crime and Forensics
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New Scientist – Crime and Forensics

Dato: Tue, 12 Jul 2011

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Newspaper phone-hacking scandal goes beyond voicemail

The scandal engulfing News International is not going away, amid new claims that other technologies were also used to get stories for the firm's papers

Dato: Tue, 12 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20684
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Voicemail hacking: How easy is it?

"Phone hacking" conjures up images of wily journalists cracking into ultra-secure data systems, but the reality is much simpler

Dato: Wed, 06 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20660
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Unbreakable: Who was the Zodiac killer?

The 1960s serial murderer Zodiac may have told the world his or her identity – but no one has been able to decrypt the message, says MacGregor Campbell <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424053/s/157b4df9/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unbreakable%3A+ Who+was+the+Zodiac+killer%3F&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsci entist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028134.200-unbreakable-who-was-the-zodia c-killer.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcrime-and-forensics http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101095651170/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/157 b4df9/kg/221/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101095651170/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/157 b4df9/kg/221/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 30 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028134.200
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Twitter forces rethink on English privacy law

New ways of communicating are forcing lawmakers to re-examine the relationship between privacy and the law

Dato: Mon, 23 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20501
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Casey Anthony trial: Is the 'smell of death' evidence?

A sample of air said to contain the smell of a dead body could be used as evidence in court – but does the science stand up to scrutiny?

Dato: Tue, 17 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20487
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Inaccurate IQs could be a matter of life and death

People in the US with intellectual disabilities could have been wrongly put to death because their IQ test score was inaccurate

Dato: Thu, 12 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20470
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Obama is right to withhold photos of bin Laden's corpse

The US president is showing astute caution in refusing to release the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse, says Andrew Silke <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424053/s/14a5dc93/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Obama+is+right+to +withhold+photos+of+bin+Laden%27s+corpse&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2 Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20454-obama-is-right-to-withhold- photos-of-bin-ladens-corpse.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcri me-and-forensics http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091485420/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/14a 5dc93/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091485420/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/14a5 dc93/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20454
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Brain scans suggest psychopaths could be treated

Psychop aths are typically considered untreatable, but brain scans could change that

Dato: Wed, 06 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.200
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FBI calls on codebreakers to decipher murder notes

The FBI has asked the public to help it in deciphering a cryptogram that may hold clues to a decade-old murder

Dato: Tue, 05 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20332
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AI lie detection could help crack terror cells

The new test could one day surpass existing lie detection techniques in ferreting out information from groups of suspects

Dato: Mon, 14 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928034.900
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Hawass admits Egypt's ancient heritage is in danger

Egypt's chief antiquities official has backtracked on claims that the country's relics are safe &amp;ndash; other Egyptologists agree that the situation is bleak< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hawass+admits+Eg ypt%27s+ancient+heritage+is+in+danger&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20205-hawass-admits-egypts-ancient-herit age-is-in-danger.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcrime-and-fore nsics http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614506567/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/1325 4a00/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/96614506567/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/1325 4a00/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 04 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20205
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US syphilis experiment scandal: probes begin

Two investigations will inquire how researchers deliberately infected Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s

Dato: Thu, 03 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20194
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The man who gets into the minds of psychopaths

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Incriminating booze tests face fresh scrutiny

Bananas, sauerkraut and non-alcoholic wine have caused positive results in alcohol tests, raising fears of false incrimination

Dato: Thu, 10 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20112
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Shaken baby evidence shaken

Evidence has emerged that suggests a leading British police officer has approved a policy of discrediting defence expert witnesses in shaken baby cases

Dato: Wed, 09 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927993.400
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Smart tool could spot dodgy domains and block botnets

New software can follow the tracks of the web domains which online criminals use to launch their attacks

Dato: Tue, 08 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20098
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Hackers could track the person behind your usernames

Cybercrimi nals may be able to identify people just from their various usernames &amp;ndash; and that may spawn better-targeted spamming and phishing attacks

Dato: Mon, 07 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20094
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True blood: The real vampire slayers

Vampires were a serious concern for scholars of centuries past – and more gory than glamorous. Paul Collins>/b< investigates

Dato: Thu, 03 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927971.500
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Drug shortage delays US executions

Hospira, the sole US maker of the anaesthetic used in lethal injections, announced last week that it would cease production. What are the implications?

Dato: Tue, 25 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20024
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Black market steals half a million pollution permits

The theft of permits for nearly half a million tonnes of carbon emissions shines a light on an emerging black market for the right to pollute the planet

Dato: Thu, 20 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20012
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Did corruption raise Haiti's death toll?

That's the message from a controversial analysis of fatalities from building collapse in earthquakes

Dato: Wed, 12 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19958
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New laser to dazzle pirates on the high seas

The low-level beam can temporarily blind pirates and let sailors escape

Dato: Sun, 09 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19930
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Hunters hunted: The revenge of robo-deer

Shooting out of season? Beware – your quarry may not be all that it seems, thanks to taxidermy with a touch of Terminator>/i><img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/424053/s/1146bc8a/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hunters+hunted%3 A+The+revenge+of+robo-deer&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscient ist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20827921.400-hunters-hunted-the-revenge-of-robo deer.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dcrime-and-forensics http://da.feedsportal.com/r/91700897781/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/1146 bc8a/kg/63/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/91700897781/u/173/f/424053/c/749/s/1146 bc8a/kg/63/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 05 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827921.400
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'Impulsivity gene' found in violent offenders

A gene mutation linked with impulsivity has been discovered in Finnish men convicted of violence crimes and arson

Dato: Thu, 23 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19903
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Chemistry helps to trap the Trappist imitators

Just seven European Trappist monasteries brew beer, but lose trade to imitations. A chemical technique that identifies their beers could be the answer

Dato: Tue, 21 Dec 2010
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New Scientist – Death
http://www.newscientist.com/ Link.
New Scientist – Death

Dato: Sun, 10 Jul 2011

Dato: Sun, 10 Jul 2011
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Casey Anthony trial: Is the 'smell of death' evidence?

A sample of air said to contain the smell of a dead body could be used as evidence in court – but does the science stand up to scrutiny?

Dato: Tue, 17 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20487
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Digital legacy: Respecting the digital dead

How can we keep digital bequests safe without poking our noses where they're not wanted? Sumit Paul-Choudhury>/b< asks the experts at the British Library

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20445
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Suicides peak in the happiest US states

Being surrounded by happy people may heighten temptations of suicide

Dato: Mon, 25 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20409
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Does the comfort of conformity ease thoughts of death?

Functional MRI suggests that as death approaches, the need to belong to a group and be near loved ones may be on your mind

Dato: Fri, 25 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928013.800
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Spin doctors: Die another day

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Death rattle of a decapitated brain

Chop off a rat's head, and a minute later a wave of electrical activity passes through their brain. Is this the boundary between life and death?

Dato: Wed, 09 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927993.700
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True blood: The real vampire slayers

Vampires were a serious concern for scholars of centuries past – and more gory than glamorous. Paul Collins>/b< investigates

Dato: Thu, 03 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927971.500
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Drug shortage delays US executions

Hospira, the sole US maker of the anaesthetic used in lethal injections, announced last week that it would cease production. What are the implications?

Dato: Tue, 25 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20024
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Ray Kurzweil: Building bridges to immortality

Make it to the year 2045 and you can live forever, the controversial futurist claims. So how's his personal quest for immortality going?

Dato: Mon, 27 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827926.300
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Bereaved animals grieve – if their lifestyle allows it

Prolonged grieving is only possible if the conditions are right to preserve the body, suggests a study of gelada monkeys

Dato: Thu, 16 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827913.900
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Change brain-death diagnosis to save organs

One clinical examination is enough to establish whether someone is brain dead and make more donated organs available, a study suggests

Dato: Wed, 15 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827912.700
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Extreme survival: Meet the immortals

Death has no sting for the jellyfish that has no age, and it's a remote prospect for a lot of other organisms too

Dato: Thu, 18 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827861.700
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Telltale bacteria could reveal time of drowning

The way bacterial colonies grow in submerged bodies could provide the first accurate way to determine time of death for drowning victims

Dato: Tue, 16 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19729
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Zoologger: Horror fly returns from the dead

The bone skipper, which feeds on rotten flesh and was the first fly to be declared extinct because of human activity, has made a surprise comeback

Dato: Wed, 22 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19359
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Grave soil whispers time of death tip-off

Crime scene investigators should take a closer look at the soil around a buried corpse to more accurately estimate when the person died

Dato: Wed, 08 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19424
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Macabre details of suicide hangings revealed

The results of this grisly research could be significant in court cases where prison officers are accused of negligence or foul play

Dato: Fri, 27 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727754.300
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Dissolving your earthly remains will protect the Earth

Looking for a greener way to leave this world? A liquid burial may be the answer

Dato: Thu, 19 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19333
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Hand-held sniffer picks out grave sites

Chemicals emitted by decaying corpses offer investigators a rapid, on-the-spot way to uncover clandestine graves

Dato: Wed, 11 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727725.500
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Air pollution could increase risk of suicide

Clear association found between suicide and spikes in pollution in seven cities in Korea

Dato: Thu, 15 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19180
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Can a gene test tell you whether you'll live to 100?

Genetic markers found in people who lived to be 100 years old raise the possibility of predicting longevity from a genome scan

Dato: Thu, 08 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727683.000
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Nicotine and pigs' trotters: the latest CSI toolkit

Smokers decompose slower than non-smokers &amp;ndash; just one of the findings that may help forensic scientists estimate time of death

Dato: Thu, 01 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19109
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Why losing a loved one can be lethal

The stress of bereavement combined with changes in the immune system can send widows and widowers to an early grave

Dato: Fri, 25 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627663.900
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Green machine: It's your eco-friendly funeral

Cleaner ways to dispose of the deceased are becoming available, from dissolving a corpse in chemicals to freeze-drying it to a powder

Dato: Wed, 09 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640.101
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How chimps mourn their dead

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Sense of smell makes flies' time fly

Female flies deprived of the ability to smell food outlive their peers, suggesting that smells may be linked to the ageing process in people too

Dato: Tue, 20 Apr 2010
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New Scientist – Dinosaurs
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Ne w Scientist – Dinosaurs

Dato: Thu, 09 Jun 2011

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First evidence that some dinosaurs were nocturnal

Peering into the eye sockets of long-dead reptiles reveals details of their lifestyle

Dato: Thu, 14 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20382
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'Tree of lice' suggests mammals did OK under dinos

Fossil lice reveal that the pests split into many species before the dinosaurs went extinct – with implications for the evolution of mammals and birds

Dato: Wed, 06 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20340
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Soft-centred fossils reveal dinosaurs' true colours

Newly discovered traces of soft tissue provide unprecedented insights into how animals that died millions of years ago looked and lived. Jeff Hecht>/b< reports

Dato: Thu, 27 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927960.500
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Did pterosaurs fly out of their eggs?

A spectacular fossil apparently of a pterosaur and its egg provides some clues about the flying reptiles' mode of reproduction

Dato: Thu, 20 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20011
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New dinosaur adds to the mystery of Triassic Park

The Triassic dinosaurs of Argentina were more diverse and abundant than we thought &amp;ndash; so why did they take 30 million years to rise to dominance?

Dato: Thu, 13 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19970
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Living dinosaurs: Why did modern birds survive?

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Living dinosaurs: Was archaeopteryx really a bird?

It had the wings and feathers of a bird, but the teeth, legs and claws of a dinosaur – so just what kind of beast was archaeopteryx?

Dato: Wed, 15 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19850
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T. rex was a cannibal

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Meet the oldest dino ancestor yet

Footprints left by a dinosaur ancestor show the animals were around earlier than previously thought

Dato: Sat, 09 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827813.900
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Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining

A 10-kilometre-wide rock did for the dinosaurs, but smashed open a window of opportunity for unimpressive little animals called mammals

Dato: Fri, 01 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727796.100
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Time to rebrand the stegosaur?

Like brontosaurs before it, Stegosaurus could be about to lose its iconic name

Dato: Fri, 24 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727792.200
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Meet Kosmoceratops, the horniest vegetarian dinosaur

Supersized head and multiple horns are order of the day for "lost continent" dinosaurs

Dato: Thu, 23 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19490
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Dinosaur with a mysterious fin found

A two-legged dinosaur that had a fin on its back has been discovered &amp;ndash; but nobody knows what it was for

Dato: Thu, 09 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727774.900
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How many dinosaurs could live in Central Park?

Palaeontologists have tried to figure out if house-sized plant-eating sauropods and stegosaurs were rare beasts or swarmed over the Jurassic landscape

Dato: Fri, 13 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19312
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#TriceraFAIL: What's in a name?

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Morphosaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us

Some dinosaurs' skulls changed so much as they matured that we've mistaken young and old for completely different species

Dato: Wed, 28 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727713.500
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Dinosaur clawprints are all over hunt site

An ancient "crime scene" in Utah reveals rare evidence of a dinosaur in the act of preying on a small mammal

Dato: Fri, 23 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19216
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Tyrannosaurs: history's most fearsome… scavengers?

The terrible lizards were happy to scavenge easy meat if it came their way, tooth marks on a Mongolian fossil reveal

Dato: Thu, 08 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19153
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Dinosaur bones made a handy food supplement

Tooth marks found on dinosaur fossils suggest that early mammals gnawed on them to add minerals to their diet

Dato: Fri, 25 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19090
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Soft tissue remnants discovered in Archaeopteryx fossil

Fossil of earliest known bird contains remnants of the soft tissue of the animal, preserved for 150 million years

Dato: Mon, 10 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18882
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Archaeopteryx may have hunted at night

The eye sockets of the flying dinosaur Archaeopteryx were similar to those of today's nocturnal birds

Dato: Mon, 05 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627545.500
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Strewth mate, T. rex has family down under

A fossil found in Victoria, Australia, is the first piece of evidence showing that Tyrannosaurus rex's ancestors once lived in the southern hemisphere

Dato: Thu, 25 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18701
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Dino-eating snake killed in action

A snake had just slithered into a sauropod's nesting ground, looking for dinner, but a sudden landslide enveloped and killed all involved, as stunning fossils show

Dato: Tue, 02 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18594
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Xu Xing: Unearthing how dinosaurs became birds

From a four-winged, pocket-sized "tetrapteryx" to the feathered ancestor of T.&amp;nbsp;rex: we talk to the man who's named more dinosaurs than anyone else

Dato: Wed, 17 Feb 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527475.900
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Tiny dinos perished in footprint death pits

A rare find of bipedal dinosaurs in circular swampy pits suggests they died after falling into the footprints of large sauropods

Dato: Tue, 02 Feb 2010
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New Scientist – Drugs and Alcohol
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Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011

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Danish firm stops supplying US death penalty drug

Supplies of an anaesthetic for lethal injections will start running low now that the firm making pentobarbital is restricting sales

Dato: Wed, 06 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20657
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Red wine's heart health chemical unlocked at last

Chemicals derived from the substance that gives red wine its protective powers against heart disease have been synthesised to fight disease

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028185.300
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Chronic ketamine use kills bladder cells

Take the recreational drug regularly and you could have severe bladder problems. The findings may also have implications for its use as an antidepressant

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174.100
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Common drug combo increases diabetes risk

Two common drugs for depression and high cholesterol put people at risk of diabetes

Dato: Thu, 26 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20515
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Sewage reveals drug habits in Paris and Adelaide

While Paris parties with cocaine at the weekend, Australians prefer to take MDMA

Dato: Wed, 20 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028092.900
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Cannabis-based drug gets green light worldwide

The drug combats involuntary muscle movements in people with multiple sclerosis and will now be sold in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Africa

Dato: Tue, 12 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20367
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Aloe vera extract gave rats tumours

Many people take aloe vera extract to keep healthy &amp;ndash; but a new study suggests high doses lead to tumours in the intestines of rats

Dato: Mon, 11 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20365
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Should steroid users take drugs to treat 'roid rage'?

With baseball star Barry Bonds in court on steroid charges, drugs that reduce the oestrogen created as steroids break down could curb aggressive behaviour

Dato: Wed, 06 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.600
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Cannabis-like drugs could kill pain without the high

The mind-altering effects of cannabis have been teased apart its from pain-relieving action, pointing to related painkillers that don't get you high

Dato: Sun, 03 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20327
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Earliest evidence for magic mushroom use in Europe

Europeans may have used magic mushrooms 6000 years ago, suggests objects in a Spanish cave painting

Dato: Sun, 06 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928025.400
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Raise alcohol prices to save British livers

The UK can cut rates of liver disease by following the French and Italian strategies of increasing the price of alcohol in supermarkets

Dato: Fri, 25 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928012.800
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Is lack of sleep and water giving ecstasy a bad name?

All-ni ght ravers who take ecstasy might not be harming their brains any more than drug-free party animals

Dato: Thu, 24 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928012.700
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Incriminating booze tests face fresh scrutiny

Bananas, sauerkraut and non-alcoholic wine have caused positive results in alcohol tests, raising fears of false incrimination

Dato: Thu, 10 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20112
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Smoking puts DNA at risk in 15 minutes

Regular smokers produce chemicals that can cause genetic changes minutes after inhaling

Dato: Sat, 22 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927963.400
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Movie cigarettes make smokers mentally 'light up'

Exposure to smoking on screen may make it harder for smokers to quit, brain scans show

Dato: Tue, 18 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19980
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Would a placebo work for you?

Brain scans reveal who is more likely to succumb to a placebo to treat pain

Is coffee the real cure for a hangover?

Acetate appears to cause the headache that follows too much alcohol, but coffee and anti-inflammatory drugs can help

Dato: Tue, 11 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19942
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Sozzled superconductors sizzle with speed

Can't get your new material to lose all electrical resistance? Try mulling it in red wine

Dato: Mon, 03 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827926.400
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Booze myths: The truth at the bottom of the bottle

Shaken or stirred? Wine before beer? How can you cure a hangover? New Scientist>/b< dispenses taproom advice

Dato: Fri, 31 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827920.500
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Extreme beer: No accounting for taste

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Dato: Wed, 29 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827920.800
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Inequality drove ancient Peruvians to child sacrifice

Muchik children in 10th-century Peru may have been killed to appease weather gods

Dato: Mon, 06 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19814
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How to see reality on drugs

If politicians can find the courage to defy a hostile press, a rational policy on drugs will not only be possible but ultimately popular too, says Dick Taverne <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10916/s/1024662e/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=How+to+see+reality +on+drugs&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle% 2Fmg20827885.500-how-to-see-reality-on-drugs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC -rss%26nsref%3Ddrugs-alcohol http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88739148261/u/173/f/10916/c/749/s/10246 62e/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/88739148261/u/173/f/10916/c/749/s/10246 62e/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 30 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827885.500
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US bans sale of alcoholic drinks with caffeine kick

Drinks dubbed "blackout in a can" are deemed "unsafe" by US Food and Drug Administration and removed from sale

Dato: Tue, 23 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19758
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Red wine packed with antidiabetes compounds

Compounds in red wine target the same receptor as a common diabetes drug &amp;ndash; and do a better job of it in lab tests

Dato: Fri, 19 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19751
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'Gross' disease images best at making smokers quit

As the US commits to showing graphic images on cigarette packets, evidence emerges that "gross" is best for stopping people smoking

Dato: Mon, 15 Nov 2010
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New Scientist – Editorials
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Dato: Thu, 14 Jul 2011

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The importance of rebranding ecosystems

It is harder to do but, ultimately, it is more important to draw attention to ecosystems than singular species

Dato: Thu, 14 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128202.700
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Phone-hacking: new technology, ancient psychology

Social psychologists have known for decades that ordinary people can behave extraordinarily badly when their culture says it is OK for them to do so

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128213.000
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US stem cell research in robust health

Despite the best efforts of George W. Bush to stymie research into human embryonic stem cells, the US still dominates the field

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128212.800
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In praise of the mavericks

The scientific endeavour thrives on more than quiet, well behaved, introverted types

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128202.800
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The rise of the splinternet

North Korea has much to teach us about the future of the internet
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128212.900
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The next space race

A new chapter of exploration opens with the final shuttle mission

Citizen scientists, name that planet

Amateur astronomers will play a key role in the hunt for extrasolar planets

Dato: Tue, 05 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128192.800
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The truth about lie detection

Why waste money on technology when humans can still do better?

Dato: Thu, 30 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028182.900
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Genotyping is the future of conservation

The plight of the Tasmanian devil underlines the importance of using genetic sequencing when assessing the health of animal populations

Dato: Wed, 29 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128192.700
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New dawn for mining at the seabed

Let's see if we can mine the ores around hydrothermal vents without destroying the habitat in the process

Dato: Wed, 29 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128192.600
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Genotyping is the future of conservation

The plight of the Tasmanian devil underlines the importance of using genetic sequencing when assessing the health of animal populations

Dato: Tue, 28 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20623
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The rise of the reverse cyborg

Look around – they are already with us

Dato: Tue, 28 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028183.000
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The personalised medicine revolution

There's so much more going on than personal genomics

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028183.100
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Robots show their soft side

The rise of machines that can do tailoring will lead to more realistic expectations for robots

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028173.000
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The cloud that hangs over cloud computing

Cloud computing is a good thing, so long as it can be made more secure

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028172.900
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DNA and the need to belong

Genetics should be kept out of discussions on race and tribe

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028172.800
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The cyber-enemy at the gate

Solid defences have got to be preferable to the threat of escalating warfare

Dato: Wed, 08 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.700
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The real problem of Bartolo Colón's stem cell therapy

The furore over the baseball player's treatment misses a wider point – researchers should be carrying out trials of this therapy, not relying on athletic guinea pigs

Dato: Wed, 08 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.500
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More rights for cephalopods

We know they are highly intelligent, so why don't we grant them more protection?

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.600
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Future of money: Back to a networked future

The internet is changing our relationship with money for the better

Dato: Mon, 06 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028153.200
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Let the mind-reading begin

The benefits of technology that can translate thoughts into words are too great to ignore

Dato: Thu, 02 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028142.800
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God deserves a cosmological explanation

Cosmologists claim to have found a way to rid themselves of the need for a God-like observer. Now they can begin to take him (or her) seriously

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028153.300
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Lights, computer, action!

Virtual human actors will broaden the horizons of moviemaking

Mississippi delta blues

When humans try to constrain rivers, the results can be calamitous

Scientists: beware the pitfalls of political theory

What should we make of the provocative idea that dictatorship is likely to flourish where disease is rife?

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
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New Scientist – Energy and Fuels
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Dato: Mon, 11 Jul 2011

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The carbon tax is unlikely to change the country's status as the largest per-capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the developed world

Dato: Mon, 11 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20675
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Australia is first nation to put a price on carbon

Australia has just announced plans for a carbon tax, beginning in July next year

Dato: Mon, 11 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20673
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Thousands of gas leaks under Boston and San Francisco

Ageing pipes are responsible for leaks of natural gas all over the US and elsewhere which can contribute to global warming

Dato: Wed, 06 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128203.800
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Dozens of countries queue up to go nuclear

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Dato: Fri, 24 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028184.400
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Conflict of interest claimed for IPCC energy report

An IPCC press release suggested a bright future for renewable energy &amp;ndash; now it turns out that a Greenpeace employee was involved in the full report

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20583
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A renewable energy generator for all seasons

Some materials generate electricity when jostled by wind or rain, others convert solar power – combine them and your device works in any weather

Dato: Fri, 10 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.100
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Wind power harnesses the energy of galloping

By harnessing strange properties of turbulent air, researchers are building unconventional ways to generate power

Dato: Thu, 02 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028145.700
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Fukushima was certified tsunami-proof

Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was certified as safe from tsunamis on the basis of a one-page memo

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20524
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Record carbon emissions mean 2 °C rise ever closer

Despite the financial crisis, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions hit new heights last year – but we shouldn't give up on emissions targets just yet

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20525
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Essential 'green' metals are being thrown away

Rare metals that are used in green technologies like solar cells and wind turbines are barely being recycled

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20523
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The climate change threat to nuclear power

Far from solving the climate problem, nuclear power may be highly vulnerable to it, says Natalie Kopytko <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10929/s/1528b0b2/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+climate+change +threat+to+nuclear+power&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.c om%2Farticle%2Fmg21028138.200-the-climate-change-threat-to-nuclear-po wer.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Denergy-fuels http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093794238/u/173/f/10929/c/749/s/1528 b0b2/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093794238/u/173/f/10929/c/749/s/1528 b0b2/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.200
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Renewable oil: Ancient bacteria could fuel modern life

Microbes with tweaked DNA can convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into oil, but will it ever power our cars?

Dato: Wed, 18 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.200
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Wind is Japan's strongest alternative to nuclear

Japan's prime minister has announced that his country won't build any new reactors. Is that even an option in such an energy-hungry nation?

Dato: Wed, 18 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.600
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Gas drilling contaminates drinking water

Wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale-gas drilling site contain elevated levels of methane

Dato: Tue, 10 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20463
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US navy chief: I'm on a mission to stop using oil

From biofuelled fighter jets to solar power-generating blankets, Ray Mabus>/b< wants to wean the US navy off fossil fuels

Dato: Tue, 10 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028110.200
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Growing sugarcane could help cool Brazil

Converting Brazil's existing farmland to sugarcane for biofuel could slightly cool the local climate

Dato: Mon, 18 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20388
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A single source for clean water and fuel

Sewage-munching algae may soon be hard at work, cleaning up wastewater and producing fuel, all in one go

Dato: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028075.300
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Japan struggles to save power before a blackout summer

Without the Fukushima nuclear plant, Japan cannot meet its huge summertime power demand &amp;ndash; how will it cope?

Dato: Thu, 07 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20353
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Wind and wave farms could affect Earth's energy balance

The idea that we can draw endless supplies of clean energy from the wind and waves just doesn't add up

Dato: Wed, 30 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028063.300
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Starting over: Rebuilding civilisation from scratch

The way we live is mostly down to accidents of history. So what if we thought it through properly? Bob Holmes>/b< takes a tour of a more rational world

Dato: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928051.400
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Hold planes at the gate to cut greenhouse gases

Fuel consumption fell at Boston Logan International Airport when planes were held for an extra 4&amp;nbsp;minutes 18&amp;nbsp;seconds at their gate

Dato: Fri, 25 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.300
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Thorium reactors could rescue nuclear power

An alternative to conventional uranium and plutonium reactors might be immune to the problems that have plagued the Fukushima nuclear power plant

Dato: Wed, 23 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.500
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Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power

Nuclear power kills many fewer people than other energy sources, according to a review by the International Energy Agency

Dato: Wed, 23 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.600
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Fukushima throws spotlight on quake zone nuclear power

The unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan should force a rethink on the building of nuclear power plants in seismically active areas

Dato: Wed, 16 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928043.100
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Shock wave puts hybrid engines in a spin

A prototype engine that relies on shock waves could allow hybrid cars to boost their efficiency even further

Dato: Tue, 15 Mar 2011
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New Scientist – Endangered Species
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Tasmanian devils were sitting ducks for deadly cancer

Human interference over the years has resulted in the marsupials having almost no genetic diversity, leaving them vulnerable to disease

Dato: Mon, 27 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20619
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Earth's oceans on course for mass extinction

It is all thanks to a deadly combination of climate change, overexploitation, pollution and habitat loss

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20595
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Are the wild horses of the American west native?

A US federal court is being asked to decide whether the country's wild horses can be considered native

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174.300
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'Extinct' frog was under our noses all the time

The Vegas Valley leopard frog was the only endemic US frog that died out in modern times – until genetics revealed otherwise

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028173.600
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Elephant expert: Busting myths of Nature's masterpiece

Th ey're empathetic, brainy and able to grieve – and Cynthia Moss>/b< should know, after 40 years studying one population of elephants

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028146.100
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Calculations may have overestimated extinction rates

Species are being driven to extinction &amp;ndash; but perhaps not as rapidly as we thought, because of a mathematical error that has gone unnoticed for decades

Dato: Wed, 18 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028136.300
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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Global warming is making bird shrink, plants flower earlier and species spread to areas that were once too cold for them, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10931/s/149e0d16/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+race+against+climate+change&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.000-unnatural-selection-the-ra ce-against-climate-change.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dendan gered-species http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091368992/u/173/f/10931/c/749/s/149e 0d16/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091368992/u/173/f/10931/c/749/s/149e0 d16/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.000
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Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Most predators target the young or the weak. Instead, we go for the biggest and best – which is why elephants are losing their tusks, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10931/s/149bd43f/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Hunting+down+elephants%27+tusks&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028101.900-unnatural-selection-hunt ing-down-elephants-tusks.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dendan gered-species http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091345828/u/173/f/10931/c/749/s/149b d43f/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091345828/u/173/f/10931/c/749/s/149b d43f/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028101.900
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World's largest freshwater fish gets life extension

A decision to build a giant dam on the Mekong river has been deferred

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028104.100
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Rare species may be there, even if you don't see them

S imply counting animals at known hangouts to assess the state of a population is no good

Dato: Fri, 04 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928023.700
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Zoologger: Jet-propelled living fossil with a problem

With 500 million years of evolution behind it, the nautilus has coped with mass extinctions, jet propulsion and even mazes. We are more of a challenge

Dato: Thu, 17 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20145
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Make or break time for Mali's fertile wetland

As well is supporting a million local people the inner Niger delta is home to a wealth of wildlife – including many of Europe's migratory birds

Dato: Fri, 11 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927994.300
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After the birds vanish, plants are next to go

The first evidence is in to confirm that plunging bird populations could lead to the slow decline of plant species

Dato: Thu, 03 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20083
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Beetle pest may encourage nesting turtles to move

La Escobilla beach in Mexico is one of the world's largest sea turtle nesting sites – but troublesome beetles could force the turtles to move

Dato: Fri, 28 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927973.900
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Tiny orang-utan populations are surprisingly diverse

One of the most detailed analyses yet of the two species of orang-utan reveals surprising genetic diversity &amp;ndash; good news for conservation efforts

Dato: Wed, 26 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20036
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Sterile giant tortoises used as Galapagos lawnmowers

Rel eased last year, sterile giant tortoises are making way for Lonesome George's relatives on Pinta Island

Dato: Fri, 21 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927962.400
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Welcome weeds: How alien invasion could save the Earth

Far from ravaging threatened ecosystems, non-native species could be powerful allies in the fight to save them

Dato: Thu, 20 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927951.300
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Can DNA reveal invasive aliens?

Environmental DNA evidence is being rolled out on a grand scale in the US to track invasive species, but the nation's legal system is lagging

Dato: Thu, 13 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927952.400
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African vultures dying of poison

Livestock farmers who leave dead goats laced with a pesticide to kill hyenas and lions are inadvertently wiping out vultures

Dato: Thu, 06 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927942.000
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Smoked jellyfish: The roast of Christmas future

Tomorrow's festive fare will be very different from today's, says gastronaut Stefan Gates>/b<, but there'll be no shortage of tasty treats on offer

Dato: Fri, 24 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827921.100
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Losing species makes ecosystems sick

Biodiversity worldwide is falling and this loss of genetic wealth could cause disease

Dato: Wed, 01 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19795
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Recipe to save the world's tigers

World leaders seeking to prevent tigers going extinct should give them more prey to hunt

Dato: Wed, 24 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19761
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Gene detectives track the rhino killers

A database of rhinoceros DNA could help in the fight against organised crime

Dato: Wed, 17 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827874.100
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Row erupts over number of big fish in the sea

Fisheries scientists are at odds over whether fishing fleets are depleting the oceans of large species

Dato: Wed, 17 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827873.700
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Zoologger: A primate with eyes bigger than its brains

A new species of tarsier has been found staring out of the Indonesian forest &amp;ndash; it's another window on humans' evolutionary past

Dato: Wed, 17 Nov 2010
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New Scientist – Epidemics and Pandemics
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Weather records predict future cholera outbreaks

Tracking monthly temperature rises and rainfall can help to predict when a cholera outbreak is likely to hit

Dato: Sun, 12 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028164.700
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$6 billion needed to save 7.4 million people with HIV

An extra $6 billion could take antiretroviral drugs to most of the 9 million people not getting the treatment at present, saving millions of lives by 2020

Dato: Thu, 09 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.800
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AIDS epidemiologist: We need a prevention revolution

Thirty years after the first report of AIDS, Seth Berkley>/b< – a veteran of the war on HIV – is confident of victory. But for that, we need a vaccine

Dato: Wed, 08 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.400
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Cancer drug thwarts malaria

Some new cancer drugs may also be effective against malaria, a new study shows

Dato: Fri, 29 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028104.200
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Countries to share viruses in exchange for cheap drugs

Rich and poor countries and the vaccine industry have agreed a deal to share virus samples and vaccines in a bid to fight flu pandemics

Dato: Fri, 22 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028093.200
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Temple conflict could spell malarial doom

The Preah Vihear temple lies near a region of drug-resistant malaria &amp;ndash; and fighting over who owns it could help the disease to spread

Dato: Tue, 08 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20101
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Europe and North America brace for flu surge

Health agencies suggest people in risk groups, such as pregnant women, get vaccinated against seasonal flu

Dato: Thu, 06 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927941.900
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Haiti to get cholera vaccination

The World Health Organization will start using vaccine in April to stem the epidemic in Haiti, although stocks are too low to provide for everyone

Dato: Thu, 06 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927941.600
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Haitian cholera strain could dominate the Americas

Deadlier toxin poses a renewed threat even to countries that already harbour cholera

Dato: Fri, 10 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19854
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T-cell suicide stops mice fighting off flu

Mice succumb to H1N1 when their immune system is weakened due to free radical overload

Dato: Wed, 08 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19828
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Haiti's cholera outbreak will go from bad to worse

Haiti's cholera epidemic will get worse, and there's no way to use a vaccine. Find out more about the latest events with our special briefing

Dato: Tue, 30 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19781
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Haiti faces years of cholera

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Bill Gates's road map for saving 4 million lives

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are in London to promote their Living Proof campaign, highlighting the value of development aid

Dato: Thu, 21 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19608
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Whooping cough outbreak could be worst in 50 years

California is experiencing a major outbreak of whooping cough, with around 3000 cases reported so far this year

Dato: Wed, 25 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19363
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Weakened flu virus proves ideal vaccine

A "crippled" influenza vaccine provokes the same immune response as a natural infection – without causing illness

Dato: Tue, 22 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627654.600
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Drug defeats deadly Ebola virus infection

An RNA-based drug provides protection after infection with the Ebola Zaire virus &amp;ndash; the first drug that has been shown to do so

Dato: Fri, 28 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18974
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Flu in pregnancy changes fetal brain

The brains of monkeys whose mothers had flu while pregnant resemble those of people with schizophrenia

Dato: Wed, 27 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527454.900
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Proof of swine flu's split personality is out

New figures from the US and UK back up earlier suspicions that swine flu is mild in most but very severe in a few

Dato: Tue, 26 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18433
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Analysis: Swine flu is not just a hoax by big pharma

While firms will have boosted profits as a result of H1N1, the reality of the pandemic is more complicated than a simple revenue grab

Dato: Tue, 19 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18412
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Vaccine for swine flu pandemic was 'morally justified'

As the current wave of H1N1 flu starts to fade in Europe, questions are being asked about the expensive vaccines bought to fight it

Dato: Wed, 13 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18381
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BMJ criticisms of Tamiflu questioned

The journal's new analysis fails to show drug is ineffective against seasonal flu, and the claims are irrelevant to pandemic flu anyway

Dato: Fri, 11 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18271
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Personalised vaccines could protect all children

Children whose genetic make-up means they may not be protected by the standard form of a vaccine could be given a personalised shot

Dato: Mon, 07 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427373.500
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Common cold may hold off swine flu

This intriguing idea would explain why swine flu's autumn wave has been slow to take off in some countries and point to new ways to fight flu

Dato: Thu, 12 Nov 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427345.100
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Timeline: The secret history of swine flu

Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but our timeline explains how the origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century

Dato: Thu, 29 Oct 2009
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New Scientist – Evolution
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Polar bears can claim Irish ancestry

First it was JFK. Then Barack O'Bama. Now even polar bears can celebrate their Irish roots

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20666
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Sex and asymmetry: How the camel got its penis

Symmetry is usually prized as a sign of health and good genes, so why do so many organisms have lopsided genitalia?

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028171.800
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Are the wild horses of the American west native?

A US federal court is being asked to decide whether the country's wild horses can be considered native

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174.300
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It is human nature to cooperate with strangers

Despite lacking a formal government, east Africa's Turkana go into battle alongside people they have never met before

Dato: Mon, 13 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20565
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Fishing has driven evolution of smaller Alaskan salmon

Evolution induced by fishing may explain why the bodies of Alaska's sockeye salmon have shrunk by 5&amp;nbsp;per cent since the 1940s

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20547
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Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago

Early Chinese rice farmers selected for the same gene that played a key role in the 20th century green revolution

Dato: Mon, 06 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20545
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American Muslim clerics sign up for evolution

Christian priests and ministers have done it, rabbis have too &amp;ndash; now imams have signed a letter backing Darwin and evolution

Dato: Fri, 27 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20522
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Rewriting the textbooks: No such thing as reptiles

The traditional group Reptilia &amp;ndash; things like lizards, crocodiles, snakes, tortoises plus many extinct groups &amp;ndash; is not a true clade, says Graham Lawton <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/1525e1e4/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Rewriting+the+textb ooks%3A+No+such+thing+as+reptiles&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n ewscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028132.500-rewriting-the-textbooks-no -such-thing-as-reptiles.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093737904/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/1525 e1e4/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093737904/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/1525e 1e4/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028132.500
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Early mammals were brainy and nosy

The mammal-like animals alive in the Jurassic had an acute sense of smell and touch &amp;ndash; necessary for survival when the dinosaurs were around

Zoologger: The snail that's bust a gut to become toxic

While most gastropods scrape up algae, the dastardly cone snail harpoons its food and paralyses it with poison

Dato: Thu, 19 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20492
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Oxygen oases saved first animals from asphyxiation

When the first complex animals evolved there was hardly any oxygen for them to breathe, but patches of microbes may have saved the day

Dato: Sun, 15 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20477
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Crocodiles swam the Atlantic to reach America

Millions of years before Vikings crossed the Atlantic, crocodiles swam thousands of kilometres from Africa to colonise the Americas

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20464
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Unnatural selection: Wily weeds outwit herbicides

Weeds are changing everything from leaf shape or waxiness to protein structure to defend themselves against us, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fa/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Wily+weeds+outwit+herbicides&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20422-unnatural-selection-wily-weeds-outwi t-herbicides.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091792077/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fa/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091792077/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fa/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20422
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Fear dulls our awareness of the nuances of sound

The need to react to sounds linked to danger rather than analysing their qualities could help explain the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20457
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Unnatural selection: Mutant mosquitoes take the subway

Hundreds of organisms have taken to living with or near humans, from mutant mosquitoes to heavy-seeded weeds, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58f9/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Mutant+mosquitoes+take+the+subway&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2F www.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20421-unnatural-selection-mutant-m osquitoes-take-the-subway.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devol ution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091666918/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58f9/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091666918/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8f9/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20421
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Unnatural selection: Fish growing up fast

As we vacuum up stupendous numbers of fish, the nature of the ones that get away is changing at an astonishing rate, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58f8/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Fish+growing+up+fast&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist .com%2Farticle%2Fdn20420-unnatural-selection-fish-growing-up-fast.html% 3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091601341/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58f8/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091601341/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8f8/a2.img

Dato: Sun, 08 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20420
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Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Other species may evolve to cope with the poisons we dump into air, land and water – but we may pay a price, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fe/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Living+with+pollution&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist. com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.300-unnatural-selection-living-with-pollution .html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091573065/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fe/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091573065/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fe/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.300
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Unnatural selection: The arms race against pests

As soon as we started using pesticides against unwanted insects and rodents, resistance began to evolve, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fc/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+arms+race+against+pests&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.100-unnatural-selection-the-arms -race-against-pests.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091535810/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fc/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091535810/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fc/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.100
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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Global warming is making bird shrink, plants flower earlier and species spread to areas that were once too cold for them, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e05ea/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+race+against+climate+change&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.000-unnatural-selection-the-ra ce-against-climate-change.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolut ion http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439451/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 05ea/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439451/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e0 5ea/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.000
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Asteroids make life's raw materials

Rocks from an asteroid have been shown to power the synthesis of life's essential chemicals for the first time

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028114.000
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Evolutionary push could help crops self-fertilise

Agriculture would be transformed if crops could produce fertiliser as legumes do. New research suggests it might be easier than we thought

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028113.800
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Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Most predators target the young or the weak. Instead, we go for the biggest and best – which is why elephants are losing their tusks, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149bdebe/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Hunting+down+elephants%27+tusks&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028101.900-unnatural-selection-hunt ing-down-elephants-tusks.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolut ion http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091415877/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149b debe/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091415877/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149b debe/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028101.900
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Cooperative robots obey evolutionary law

Robots the size of a sugar cube have evolved to cooperate with each other, potentially resolving a bitter row among biologists

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20440
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Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution

Humans are not only causing a mass extinction – we are also the biggest force in the evolution of the species that will survive, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fb/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+How+humans+are+driving+evolution&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028101.800-unnatural-selection-how -humans-are-driving-evolution.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3De volution
< pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028101.800
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The secret superpower of the cockroach

You don't need to be tough to conquer the world's kitchens, but you do need one extraordinary ability, discovers Wendy Zukerman <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/145a0af9/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+secret+superp ower+of+the+cockroach&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21028081.400-the-secret-superpower-of-the-cockroach .html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100752242716/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/145a 0af9/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100752242716/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/145a0 af9/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 21 Apr 2011
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New Scientist – Evolution
http://www.newscientist.com/ Link.
New Scientist – Evolution

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New Scientist – Evolution
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Polar bears can claim Irish ancestry

First it was JFK. Then Barack O'Bama. Now even polar bears can celebrate their Irish roots

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20666
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Sex and asymmetry: How the camel got its penis

Symmetry is usually prized as a sign of health and good genes, so why do so many organisms have lopsided genitalia?

Dato: Tue, 21 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028171.800
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Are the wild horses of the American west native?

A US federal court is being asked to decide whether the country's wild horses can be considered native

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028174.300
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It is human nature to cooperate with strangers

Despite lacking a formal government, east Africa's Turkana go into battle alongside people they have never met before

Dato: Mon, 13 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20565
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Fishing has driven evolution of smaller Alaskan salmon

Evolution induced by fishing may explain why the bodies of Alaska's sockeye salmon have shrunk by 5&amp;nbsp;per cent since the 1940s

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20547
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Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago

Early Chinese rice farmers selected for the same gene that played a key role in the 20th century green revolution

Dato: Mon, 06 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20545
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American Muslim clerics sign up for evolution

Christian priests and ministers have done it, rabbis have too &amp;ndash; now imams have signed a letter backing Darwin and evolution

Dato: Fri, 27 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20522
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Rewriting the textbooks: No such thing as reptiles

The traditional group Reptilia &amp;ndash; things like lizards, crocodiles, snakes, tortoises plus many extinct groups &amp;ndash; is not a true clade, says Graham Lawton <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/1525e1e4/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Rewriting+the+textb ooks%3A+No+such+thing+as+reptiles&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n ewscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028132.500-rewriting-the-textbooks-no -such-thing-as-reptiles.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093737904/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/1525 e1e4/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101093737904/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/1525e 1e4/a2.img

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028132.500
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Early mammals were brainy and nosy

The mammal-like animals alive in the Jurassic had an acute sense of smell and touch &amp;ndash; necessary for survival when the dinosaurs were around

Zoologger: The snail that's bust a gut to become toxic

While most gastropods scrape up algae, the dastardly cone snail harpoons its food and paralyses it with poison

Dato: Thu, 19 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20492
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Oxygen oases saved first animals from asphyxiation

When the first complex animals evolved there was hardly any oxygen for them to breathe, but patches of microbes may have saved the day

Dato: Sun, 15 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20477
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Crocodiles swam the Atlantic to reach America

Millions of years before Vikings crossed the Atlantic, crocodiles swam thousands of kilometres from Africa to colonise the Americas

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20464
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Unnatural selection: Wily weeds outwit herbicides

Weeds are changing everything from leaf shape or waxiness to protein structure to defend themselves against us, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fa/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Wily+weeds+outwit+herbicides&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20422-unnatural-selection-wily-weeds-outwi t-herbicides.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091792077/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fa/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091792077/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fa/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20422
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Fear dulls our awareness of the nuances of sound

The need to react to sounds linked to danger rather than analysing their qualities could help explain the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20457
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Unnatural selection: Mutant mosquitoes take the subway

Hundreds of organisms have taken to living with or near humans, from mutant mosquitoes to heavy-seeded weeds, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58f9/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Mutant+mosquitoes+take+the+subway&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2F www.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20421-unnatural-selection-mutant-m osquitoes-take-the-subway.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devol ution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091666918/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58f9/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091666918/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8f9/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 09 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20421
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Unnatural selection: Fish growing up fast

As we vacuum up stupendous numbers of fish, the nature of the ones that get away is changing at an astonishing rate, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58f8/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Fish+growing+up+fast&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist .com%2Farticle%2Fdn20420-unnatural-selection-fish-growing-up-fast.html% 3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091601341/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58f8/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091601341/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8f8/a2.img

Dato: Sun, 08 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20420
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Unnatural selection: Living with pollution

Other species may evolve to cope with the poisons we dump into air, land and water – but we may pay a price, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fe/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Living+with+pollution&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist. com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.300-unnatural-selection-living-with-pollution .html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091573065/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fe/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091573065/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fe/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.300
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Unnatural selection: The arms race against pests

As soon as we started using pesticides against unwanted insects and rodents, resistance began to evolve, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fc/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+arms+race+against+pests&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.100-unnatural-selection-the-arms -race-against-pests.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091535810/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 58fc/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091535810/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e5 8fc/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.100
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Unnatural selection: The race against climate change

Global warming is making bird shrink, plants flower earlier and species spread to areas that were once too cold for them, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e05ea/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+The+race+against+climate+change&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028102.000-unnatural-selection-the-ra ce-against-climate-change.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolut ion http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439451/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e 05ea/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091439451/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149e0 5ea/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028102.000
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Asteroids make life's raw materials

Rocks from an asteroid have been shown to power the synthesis of life's essential chemicals for the first time

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028114.000
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Evolutionary push could help crops self-fertilise

Agriculture would be transformed if crops could produce fertiliser as legumes do. New research suggests it might be easier than we thought

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028113.800
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Unnatural selection: Hunting down elephants' tusks

Most predators target the young or the weak. Instead, we go for the biggest and best – which is why elephants are losing their tusks, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149bdebe/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+Hunting+down+elephants%27+tusks&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028101.900-unnatural-selection-hunt ing-down-elephants-tusks.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolut ion http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091415877/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149b debe/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101091415877/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/149b debe/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028101.900
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Cooperative robots obey evolutionary law

Robots the size of a sugar cube have evolved to cooperate with each other, potentially resolving a bitter row among biologists

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20440
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Unnatural selection: How humans are driving evolution

Humans are not only causing a mass extinction – we are also the biggest force in the evolution of the species that will survive, says Michael Le Page <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/149e58fb/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unnatural+selection %3A+How+humans+are+driving+evolution&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fww w.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028101.800-unnatural-selection-how -humans-are-driving-evolution.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3De volution
< pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028101.800
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The secret superpower of the cockroach

You don't need to be tough to conquer the world's kitchens, but you do need one extraordinary ability, discovers Wendy Zukerman <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10911/s/145a0af9/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+secret+superp ower+of+the+cockroach&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21028081.400-the-secret-superpower-of-the-cockroach .html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Devolution http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100752242716/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/145a 0af9/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/100752242716/u/173/f/10911/c/749/s/145a0 af9/a2.img

Dato: Thu, 21 Apr 2011
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New Scientist – Exploring Mars
http://www.newscientist.com/ Link.
New Scientist – Exploring Mars

Dato: Wed, 29 Jun 2011

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New Scientist – Exploring Mars
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NASA has whittled down the candidate landing site for Curiosity, its next Mars rover, from a possible four to two

Dato: Tue, 28 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20625
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NASA should bring Mars rocks back to Earth, says panel

A Mars sample return mission should be a top priority for NASA in the coming decade, says an expert panel

Dato: Tue, 08 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20216
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Gushing flood formed giant Martian sinkhole

Meltwater flowing through deep cracks in the Martian rock may explain the origins of the enormous Hebes Chasma canyon

Dato: Thu, 10 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927994.500
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Telltale chemistry could betray ET

Alien life may be hard to find because it's fundamentally unlike that on Earth &amp;ndash; but a tendency to chemically alter its environment may give it away

Dato: Fri, 21 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927962.700
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Did 'Martian' methane signal come from Earth?

Claims of methane on Mars, which fuelled hopes that the planet hosts life, may be premature

Dato: Thu, 23 Dec 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19902
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Hardy bugs could survive a million years on Mars

The intense Martian cold should prolong the ability of Conan the Bacterium to withstand intense radiation

Dato: Tue, 23 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19763
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Mars moon may have formed like our own

The Martian moon Phobos was thought to be a captured asteroid, but new observations suggest it coalesced from debris blasted off its mother planet, like Earth's moon

Dato: Tue, 21 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19486
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Bad breath sniffer to hunt for life on Mars

A chemical responsible for bad breath and flatulence in humans could signal life on Mars – NASA's next rover will try to sniff it out

Dato: Thu, 16 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727784.100
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Designing greenhouses for the Red Planet

The creation of a human outpost on Mars is still some way off, but that hasn't stopped us planning the garden

Dato: Thu, 29 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627583.700
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Common Mars rock can preserve microfossils after all

Sulphate minerals &amp;ndash; which are widespread on Mars &amp;ndash; do not erase evidence of fossilised microbes as previously thought, a study of Earth rocks suggests

Dato: Wed, 28 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18838
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Look for Mars life with laughing gas

Traces of Martian nitrous oxide with a specific isotopic signature could be used to sniff out possible hotspots for life

Dato: Tue, 27 Apr 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18823
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Microbes thrive in harsh, Mars-like lakes

Salty, acidic lakes in the Australian outback that resemble the inhospitable conditions on ancient Mars contain bustling microbial communities, a new study suggests

Dato: Fri, 26 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18709
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Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets

The ice at the planet's north pole may be moving on a bed of salty sludge, which one day could be handy for fuel

Dato: Tue, 09 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527505.100
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Martian moon's secrets to be revealed during fly-bys

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft is performing a series of 12 fly-bys of the Martian moon Phobos, making the best ever measurements of its gravity

Dato: Mon, 08 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18621
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Mars rover Spirit could rise again

NASA's declaration a month ago that the rover would henceforth be a stationary lander was "a little bit premature", says a rover scientist

Dato: Tue, 02 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18596
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Destination Phobos: humanity's next giant leap

The best way to reach Mars may be to set up base camp on its largest moon – just one small step away from the Red Planet

Dato: Wed, 27 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527451.100
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Trapped Mars rover's driving days are over

After months of trying to extricate the Spirit rover from a sand trap, NASA believes the attempt is hopeless &amp;ndash; but the robot's useful life may not be over

Dato: Tue, 26 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18438
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2009 review: The year in space

Astronomers found water on the moon and saw the most distant object yet, but space radiation hit a record high and the Spirit rover struggled for life

Dato: Wed, 23 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18332
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Second stalled wheel may doom Mars rover

NASA's Spirit rover was already fighting an uphill battle to escape a sand trap; if a second wheel cannot be coaxed back into action, the rover may freeze to death

Dato: Tue, 08 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18256
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Watery niche may foster life on Mars

Vast banks of snow and ice on Mars could harbour liquid water just centimetres below the surface, making them potential habitats for life< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Watery+niche+may +foster+life+on+Mars&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com% 2Farticle%2Fmg20427373.700-watery-niche-may-foster-life-on-mars.html% 3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dexploring-mars http://da.feedsportal.com/r/57766076112/u/173/f/424056/c/749/s/1281 24054/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/57766076112/u/173/f/424056/c/749/s/1281 24054/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 07 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427373.700
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Both of NASA's Mars orbiters are down for the count

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been offline since August &amp;ndash; now, the Odyssey probe is down as well, spelling delays for the twin rovers, which use the orbiters to communicate with Earth

Dato: Tue, 01 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18225
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Mars rover battles for its life

NASA's veteran explorer Spirit faces its toughest challenge yet as it prepares to free itself from a sand trap where it has been mired for the past six months

Dato: Wed, 11 Nov 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427344.700
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What's the point of a fake 500-day Mars mission?

Volunteers are being asked to play astronauts on a simulated Mars mission &amp;ndash; but it's not the only way to learn how long-haul spacefarers will cope

Dato: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18025
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Wind, not water, may explain Red Planet's hue

Mars's distinctive colour may be the result of thousands of years of wind-borne sand particles colliding with one another, a new study argues

Dato: Sat, 19 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17814
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Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars

Crews could exceed NASA's recommended maximum doses of space radiation before they get anywhere near the Red Planet

Dato: Wed, 16 Sep 2009
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New Scientist – Feedback
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Ne w Scientist – Feedback

Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011

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Feedback: Wikipedia's strange attractor

Deep truths of Wikipedia, many hands make physics work, truth turned on its head (and then slipped into New Scientist), and more

Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128212.000
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Feedback: Rhubarb, invisible rhubarb

Wireless network blocked by rhubarb, quantum train stations, GPS for the pernickety, a memory card is a memory card is a memory card, and more

Dato: Fri, 08 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128202.100
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Feedback: Greetings, Mars! I bring you gifts!

The lucky winner of a piece of Mars, mysterious lapel-rubbing, permission that isn't, and more

Dato: Fri, 01 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128192.300
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Feedback: Chimp brokers outperform professionals

How to invest like a chimp, obsolete clocks and cloaks, and technology down on the farm

Dato: Fri, 24 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028182.200
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Feedback: Night of the sleeping dead

US government plans to worst zombies with tedium, how everything ends up in philosophy, one-dimensional luggage and more

Dato: Fri, 17 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028172.500
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Feedback: Flying faeces in the lab

The endless fascination of turd-kicking grasshoppers, a dangerous god seized by police in south London, Beethoven's posthumous oeuvre, and more

Dato: Fri, 10 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.100
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Feedback: Cancer risk doubled or halved

How picking the wrong newspaper can seriously impair your health, a novel cure for head lice, and how to read last year's news in the stars

Dato: Fri, 03 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028152.600
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Feedback: Norse god has a day of his own

Why there's nothing wrong with Tue's night, a nine-dimensional bathtub, anachronistic charades, and more

Dato: Fri, 27 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028142.200
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Feedback: Sniffex fails to sniff explosives

No, this is a bomb; Mrs Gardner's prostate problem; Tesco delivers 2 millennia late; and more

Dato: Fri, 20 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028134.600
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Feedback: Nano-sized signal sucker

World's first table top echo friendly black hole broadband signal sucker, a bearish Dark Cloud Cover candlestick pattern, digital feet, and more

Dato: Fri, 13 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028123.400
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Feedback: Redundant gestures get the thumbs up

Let your fingers do the talking – old style, wallpaper made of paper that you put on walls, a job you can put off for 224 years, and more

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028112.300
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Feedback: Grasshoppers play football with their poo

How far grasshoppers can kick their poo, multiple paternity puzzle, how to arrest 10 people in 14 countries, and food that vibrates at a higher frequency

Dato: Fri, 29 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028103.100
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Feedback: When roads burst into song

Terrible driving music, the National Union of Stew Departments, pyramid telling, and more

Dato: Thu, 21 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028092.100
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Feedback: Far infrared, the fruitloop favourite

The astonishing powers of the far infrared, quantum healing comes to London, the classification that isn't, and more

Dato: Fri, 15 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028081.600
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Feedback: Air scribble and other outmoded gestures

Why we wave our hands about when asking for a restaurant bill, more hoovariation, inventive Amazon reviews, and the birth of an urban myth

Dato: Fri, 08 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028071.700
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Feedback: What fell on the Krypton Street post office?

A mystery on Krypton Street, music that really shouldn't be cookin', fat-busting Brazilian undies, and more

Dato: Fri, 01 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028062.000
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Feedback: Meeting yourself in other universes

How the grass is always greener in an alternate universe, the end of history, killer mice from space, and more

Dato: Fri, 25 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928052.100
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Feedback: Conversing with a robot

Robot customer service fail, deeply chilled music, 1-centimetre cars, and more

Dato: Fri, 18 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928042.400
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Feedback: Amazing achievement of peak performer

One man who's consulted 3 million people, when an automatic door isn't, meet the googlegang, and more

Dato: Fri, 11 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928031.900
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Feedback: Full of fellow feeling despite being dead

How to explore the feelings of a dead fish, a whole lot of Pin Ball Pinko players, how to get paid an infinite amount of money to eat all you can, and more

Dato: Wed, 02 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928022.500
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Feedback: Gates and doors for quantum users only

The gate that none shall pass, hairdryers that proudly don't, how your brain can grind coffee, and more

Dato: Fri, 25 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928011.700
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Feedback: Health benefits of radioactive peanuts

How to truly glow with health, rocket-fuelled hair care, logically impossible emails and more

Dato: Fri, 18 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928002.200
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Feedback: Quantum shift in woo-woo nonsense

Positive Vibrational Change and Sacred Geometry Infusion, the Journal of Universal Rejection, 70,000 cold years to come, and more

Dato: Fri, 11 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927992.300
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Feedback: Sex, lies and scientific papers

The good, the bad and the incomprehensible, the biggest pizza order in the universe (probably), paradigms for sale and the 145-tonne CD player< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Feedback%3A+Sex %2C+lies+and+scientific+papers&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscie ntist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20927982.300-feedback-sex-lies-and-scientific-p apers.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dfeedback http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865814200/u/173/f/424057/c/749/s/126a 8791/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865814200/u/173/f/424057/c/749/s/126a8 791/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 04 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927982.300
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Feedback: The dusky nightjar sings jazz

Eagles songs in a metal style, where to buy a dead rabbit with a side order of uranium, accidental sex changes, and more

Dato: Fri, 28 Jan 2011
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New Scientist – Food and Drink
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Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011

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Overfishing eats away at genetic diversity of fish

Our hunger for fish is damaging their genetic diversity to a greater degree than expected, leaving at-risk species vulnerable

Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20699
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Crop disease to add to east Africa's woes

While those experiencing drought hope for rain, it could bring a worse problem with it: an aggressive strain of the fungal crop disease yellow rust< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Crop+disease+to+a dd+to+east+Africa%27s+woes&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscien tist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21128214.100-crop-disease-to-add-to-east-africa s-woes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dfood-drink http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217546131/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/16a 20643/kg/253/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217546131/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/16a2 0643/kg/253/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128214.100
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One potato genome unravelled, three to go

Most potatoes have four different genomes, but sequencing just one has already given insights into why the trusty tubers are so prone to disease

Dato: Sun, 10 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20672
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La Niña behind worst African drought in 60 years

Almost 10 million people in the Horn of Africa are facing a humanitarian emergency as the region teeters on the edge of famine

Dato: Tue, 05 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20652
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Red wine's heart health chemical unlocked at last

Chemicals derived from the substance that gives red wine its protective powers against heart disease have been synthesised to fight disease

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028185.300
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Bean sprouts to blame for 'decade-old' E. coli

The strain of bacteria that has caused lethal food poisoning in Germany is carried by bean sprouts and may have been circulating in people for 10 years

Dato: Fri, 10 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20562
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Beyond antibiotics: A new way to fight superbugs

German E. coli deaths show it's time to look past the wonder drugs of the 1950s in the battle against lethal bacteria

Dato: Wed, 08 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028163.600
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Fishing has driven evolution of smaller Alaskan salmon

Evolution induced by fishing may explain why the bodies of Alaska's sockeye salmon have shrunk by 5&amp;nbsp;per cent since the 1940s

Dato: Tue, 07 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20547
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Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago

Early Chinese rice farmers selected for the same gene that played a key role in the 20th century green revolution
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20545
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On a diet? Try mind over milkshake

Convincing yourself that everything you eat is highly calorific could lower hunger hormones and suppress your appetite< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=On+a+diet%3F+Tr y+mind+over+milkshake&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fmg21028155.500-on-a-diet-try-mind-over-milkshake.html %3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dfood-drink http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471194444/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/15a 98849/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104471194444/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/15a9 8849/a2.img

Dato: Sun, 05 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028155.500
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New MRSA superbug discovered in cows' milk

A new strain of antibiotic-resistant MRSA found in cows' milk and humans will not be picked up by some screening tests

Dato: Fri, 03 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20542
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German E. coli outbreak is a killer hybrid

The bacterium that has killed 18 people in Europe is a previously unknown strain< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=German+E.+coli+ou tbreak+is+a+killer+hybrid&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.co m%2Farticle%2Fdn20541-german-e-coli-outbreak-is-a-killer-hybrid.html%3 FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dfood-drink http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104470961167/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/15a 20260/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/104470961167/u/173/f/448587/c/749/s/15a2 0260/a2.img

Dato: Fri, 03 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20541
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US kids should avoid energy drinks

The American Academy of Pediatrics says sports and energy drinks can cause a rise in blood pressure and insomnia, and can be addictive

Dato: Thu, 02 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028153.800
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Could milk get ultraviolet treatment?

Bathing milk and other liquids in ultraviolet light could replace pasteurisation and make for healthier drinks

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028145.400
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Death toll rising in cucumber bacteria outbreak

E. coli found in cucumbers in Germany has so far killed 16 people

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20526
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Llama muck and maize revolution drove Inca success

How could the inhospitable Andes nurture the Inca civilisation? The 2700-year-old answer seems to be llama dung

Dato: Sat, 21 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20495
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Crop yields fall as temperatures rise

The steep rise in global temperatures since 1980 has cut yields of staple crops, offsetting gains from better farming

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20449
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Evolutionary push could help crops self-fertilise

Agriculture would be transformed if crops could produce fertiliser as legumes do. New research suggests it might be easier than we thought

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028113.800
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Stay of execution for world's fish stocks

The way we measure fish stocks has overestimated the effects of overfishing &amp;ndash; but fish we thought were safe may not be

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20443
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Unexpected fungus decimates Australia's pistachio crop

A bumper crop of Australian pistachios has failed to materialise because of fungal damage: is a genetic mutation or bad weather to blame?

Dato: Fri, 29 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20432
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One in 10 kids found with a taste disorder

Ear infections may be to blame for loss of taste in children

Dato: Fri, 22 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20408
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Each human has one of only three gut ecosystems

The helpful bacteria that live in our guts fall into just three different groups &amp;ndash; what does that mean for us?

Dato: Wed, 20 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20401
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Junk food 'inflammation' may trigger diabetes

Fatty foods might trigger type 2 diabetes by mimicking the inflammation normally caused by bacteria, viruses and harmful substances such as asbestos

Dato: Tue, 12 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20369
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Aloe vera extract gave rats tumours

Many people take aloe vera extract to keep healthy &amp;ndash; but a new study suggests high doses lead to tumours in the intestines of rats

Dato: Mon, 11 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20365
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Nuclear crisis: How safe is Japan's food and water?

Alerts have been issued on radiation levels in some Japanese food and water &amp;ndash; how dangerous are they?

Dato: Mon, 21 Mar 2011
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New Scientist – GM Organisms
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Ne w Scientist – GM Organisms

Dato: Tue, 19 Jul 2011

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Cassava packs a protein punch with bean genes

Genetically modified cassava can turn about half of the cyanide it makes into extra protein – that could save the lives of millions of African children

Dato: Thu, 03 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927984.800
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Don't go all European about modified food

The US must not cave into green pressure on genetically modified crops, says Dick Taverne <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10914/s/126754f1/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Don%27t+go+all+E uropean+about+modified+food&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscient ist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20020-dont-go-all-european-about-modified-food.h tml%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dgm-food http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865769617/u/173/f/10914/c/749/s/12675 4f1/kg/43/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/93865769617/u/173/f/10914/c/749/s/12675 4f1/kg/43/a2.img

Dato: Mon, 24 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20020
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Engineered chickens can't pass on flu

A genetically modified chicken that can carry bird flu without infecting others could make bird vaccination obsolete &amp;ndash; if people will eat its meat

Vatican scientists urge support for engineered crops

Papal advisers say scientists have a moral duty to be "stewards of God" and genetically modify crops to help the world's poor

Dato: Tue, 30 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19787
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Genetically altered mosquitoes thwart dengue spreaders

First outdoor trial of genetically modified mosquitoes promises new strategy against killer disease

Dato: Thu, 11 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19717
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Transgenic Indian superspuds pack more protein

Genetically modified spuds contain more protein and the plants yield more potatoes, the first time that a simple modification has increased yield

Dato: Mon, 20 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19473
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Briefing: Anyone for a cloned steak and milkshake?

The sale of beef and potentially milk from the offspring of cloned cattle is causing a stir in the UK. New Scientist>/b< investigates the key issues

Dato: Thu, 05 Aug 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19266
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Synthetic biology

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Altered animals: Creatures with bonus features

First came the supermice that could run all day or stand up to cats. Now here come cows that fight terror and pollution-busting pigs

Dato: Wed, 14 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727680.300
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Europe's science-free plan for gene-modified crops

Europe-wide bans might be lifted if individual countries could ban genetically modified crops for socio-economic or cultural reasons

Dato: Tue, 29 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19102
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Robb Fraley: Monsanto is a champion of healthy eating

The company's chief technology officer on how the agri-biotech giant is reinventing itself

Dato: Mon, 28 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627665.900
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Hollow victory for Monsanto in alfalfa court case

The US Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa, but a big hurdle remains before the seeds can be sold

Dato: Tue, 22 Jun 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19073
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Special report: Where next for synthetic life?

Craig Venter's creation of a synthetic cell was a tour de force, but the fruits of synthetic biology are more likely to come by other means

Dato: Wed, 26 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627622.600
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Organic pesticide doubles up as worm killer

The protein could drag hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, if cash can be found for human trials

Dato: Thu, 04 Mar 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18610
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Genetically modified seeds 'are everywhere'

"Zero-tolerance" laws designed to keep Europe free of unauthorised GM crops are unworkable, say farmers

Dato: Fri, 29 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527453.800
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Engineered maize toxicity claims roundly rebuffed

Monsanto's unprecedented release of toxicology data about its GM maize has led to claim and counter-claim about its safety

Dato: Fri, 22 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527444.000
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Gene rice on its way in China

Chi na is set to become the first country to sow genetically modified rice cleared for commercial sale

Dato: Mon, 04 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18328
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A golden age for GM crops?

A new type of soya will have critics of genetic modification tying themselves in knots

Dato: Wed, 28 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427322.300
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US FDA says omega-3 oils from GM soya are safe to eat

Biotech giants have a green light to market crops genetically modified to produce the health-promoting oils, which are mostly got from fish at present

Dato: Tue, 27 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18049
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Roger Beachy: GM crop pioneer now US farm science chief

The head of the new National Institute of Food and Agriculture explains his links to the biotech industry and how farming can adapt to climate change

Dato: Thu, 08 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17945
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There's gold in them there modified bacteria

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Dato: Mon, 05 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17915
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Norm Borlaug: the man who fed the world

The leader of the green revolution, in which improved irrigation, fertilisers and disease-resistant crops saved countless lives, has died

Dato: Mon, 14 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17778
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Better world: Learn to love genetic engineering

The technology environmentalists love to hate really could play a big role in saving the planet

Dato: Mon, 14 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327251.600
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Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming

Engineering the genes of livestock could make them incapable of feeling pain – but critics say the ethical problems don't end there

Dato: Wed, 02 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327243.400
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Genome smuggling is step towards synthetic life

Overc oming bacterial defences allows the genome of one bacteria to be transplanted into another species &amp;ndash; creation of synthetic life possible 'in a month', claims genome pioneer

Dato: Thu, 20 Aug 2009
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Award-winning photographer looks into our eyes

For over 35 years, Australian ophthalmic photographer Chris Barry>/b< has captured the eye's ailments in striking detail

Dato: Fri, 15 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20701
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Do it again: Round-up of regenerating animals

From newt legs to two-headed worms, New Scientist>/b< brings you some of the most dramatic examples of animal regeneration< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Do+it+again%3A+ Round-up+of+regenerating+animals&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.news cientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn20685-do-it-again-roundup-of-regenerating-ani mals.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dgalleries http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217337252/u/173/f/424872/c/749/s/16a 02954/kg/253/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/106217337252/u/173/f/424872/c/749/s/16a0 2954/kg/253/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20685
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Weather round-up for the solar system

Cyclones, lightning, snow and carbon-monoxide frost – New Scientist>/b< finds there's plenty of weather in the sun's family of planets and moons

Dato: Tue, 12 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20683
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Farewell shuttle: 30 years of space flight in pictures

From Hubble and the oldest man in space to the Challenger and Columbia disasters, New Scientist revisits three decades of the space shuttle programme

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20661
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June photo competition winners: Food

Food was the theme for June's New Scientist>/b< photo competition. Here is the excellent winner and the laudable runners-up

Dato: Tue, 05 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20653
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The not-so-natural history of horse evolution

For millennia, humans have bred them for brawn, speed and even cuteness. New Scientist>/b< traces horses from their origins to the first cloned racehorse

Dato: Thu, 30 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20637
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The best combustion art goes up in flames

Fire in microgravity, flaming spirals and a burning hat fanned the flames at the Combustion Institute's 2011 Combustion Art Competition

Dato: Wed, 29 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20632
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Winning designs for a better life

Mushroom styrofoam and a cellphone-charging stove are just two of the inventions up for the Index: Design to Improve Life prizes

Dato: Mon, 20 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20588
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Tentacular spectacular: Best cephalopod superpowers

Cuttlefish, octopuses, squid and nautiluses: the world's most intelligent invertebrates have a few tricks up their slippery sleeves

Dato: Thu, 16 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20579
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Hidden ecologies: salt ponds and entombed marshes

Using kite aerial photography, Charles "Cris" Benton documents colourful blooms of salt-tolerant microbes in the southern reaches of San Francisco Bay

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20577
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May photo competition winners: Migration

Migration was the theme for May's New Scientist photo competition. Here are the winners and runners-up

Dato: Fri, 10 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20560
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A century and a half of colour photography

To mark the 150th anniversary of James Clerk Maxwell's invention of the three-colour process, here are some of the photographic breakthroughs along the way

Dato: Fri, 27 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20517
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NASA art remembers 50 years of space exploration

In sculpture, paint and film, generations of renowned artists have reflected on the programme's conquest of space

Dato: Thu, 26 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20514
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Meet the top 10 new species of 2010

From glow-in-the-dark mushrooms to the bizarre pancake batfish, New Scientist>/b< takes a look at the best species discovered last year

Dato: Thu, 26 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20512
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Science-fiction classics that have rewired your brain

A new exhibition at the British Library in London delves into the history of science fiction and shows how it has forced us to look at our world anew

Dato: Wed, 18 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20490
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US fighting machine going green

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Animals having fun

The photographs in Jonathan Balcombe's new book Exultant Ark are an exploration of pleasure and joy in the animal kingdom

Dato: Mon, 16 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20480
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April photo competition winners: Wheels

Arguably the most important invention ever, wheels were the theme for April's New Scientist>/b< photo competition. Here are the winners and runners-up

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20466
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Evolutionary trick of bizarre insect headgear revealed

They look nothing like it, but the fantastical "helmets" of treehoppers are in fact an extra pair of wings

Dato: Thu, 05 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20446
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World champion photos come to London

The winners of the 2011 Sony World Photography Awards were announced last night. New Scientist>/b< takes a look and picks from the best of the rest

Dato: Thu, 28 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20429
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The unlikely charm of cockroaches

Cockroaches are considered pests by most – but New Scientist>/b< begs to differ. Take a look at these beauties

Dato: Thu, 21 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20407
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Five wild RAP stars celebrate 20 years of conservation

Marking 20 years of the Rapid Assessment Program, New Scientist takes a look at the new kids on the block

Dato: Wed, 20 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20398
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Surreal seductions: Birds of paradise strut their stuff

A new collection of photographs show the range of these birds' distinctive plumage, and the lengths males will go to impress a potential mate

Dato: Tue, 19 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20392
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Bee guts and embryo hearts: next generation imaging

University College London's new imaging centre shames clinical grade scanners with its dazzling images of minute structures

Dato: Thu, 14 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20381
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Nine more heroes of human space flight

Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human to reach space, we chronicle other notable space flight records

Dato: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
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New Scientist – Genetics
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Human history recorded in a single genome

It seems every one of us carries in our genes a million-year record of past human population size

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128214.600
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One potato genome unravelled, three to go

Most potatoes have four different genomes, but sequencing just one has already given insights into why the trusty tubers are so prone to disease

Dato: Sun, 10 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20672
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Kinky genes: Biophysics of DNA affects how it works

Some DNA sequences are kinkier than others, which could explain why certain genes cause disease in some people and not others

Dato: Fri, 08 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20669
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Found: the mother of all blood cells

Identifying the source of all blood cells could allow doctors to rebuild entire blood systems from a single stem cell

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20668
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Polar bears can claim Irish ancestry

First it was JFK. Then Barack O'Bama. Now even polar bears can celebrate their Irish roots
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20666
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Tasmanian devils were sitting ducks for deadly cancer

Human interference over the years has resulted in the marsupials having almost no genetic diversity, leaving them vulnerable to disease

Dato: Mon, 27 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20619
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Unzipped chromosomes pass on parental stress

Fruit flies reveal the molecular mechanism that allows the effects of parental stress to pass down the generations

Dato: Mon, 27 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20616
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Tribal wars: DNA testing divides American Indians

When American Indian identity is based on culture as much as blood, gene tests can tear tribes apart

Dato: Wed, 15 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028173.900
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Farmers were genetic breeders 10,000 years ago

Early Chinese rice farmers selected for the same gene that played a key role in the 20th century green revolution

Dato: Mon, 06 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20545
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Is a mutated fungus killing American bats?

Minor genetic differences may be to blame for a lethal version of a European fungus

Dato: Tue, 24 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20506
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Cooperative robots obey evolutionary law

Robots the size of a sugar cube have evolved to cooperate with each other, potentially resolving a bitter row among biologists

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20440
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Telomere Nobelist: Selling a 'biological age' test

Elizabeth Blackburn>/b< is launching a commercial genetic test that measures DNA markers of ageing – what can we learn from it?

Dato: Wed, 04 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028100.200
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Osama bin Laden: how DNA identified his body

DNA evidence identified the world's most wanted man with "99.9 per cent confidence", which would require comparison with the DNA of close relatives

Dato: Tue, 03 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20439
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Zoologger: Genetic superpowers of the common shrew

Different groups of shrews can interbreed, even though their genes and chromosomes have been completely reshuffled &amp;ndash; a feat other animals can't match

Dato: Thu, 28 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20427
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Genes fit for a queen: How Kate won her mate

The pomp and fluff of the royal wedding belie Kate Middleton's ruthless mating intelligence, argues evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller <img http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10913/s/14739a55/mf.gif' border='0'/>< /viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Genes+fit+for+a+qu een%3A+How+Kate+won+her+mate&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ne wscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg21028091.300-genes-fit-for-a-queen-how- kate-won-her-mate.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Dgenetics http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101090686450/u/173/f/10913/c/749/s/1473 9a55/a2.htm <img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/101090686450/u/173/f/10913/c/749/s/1473 9a55/a2.img

Dato: Wed, 27 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028091.300
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Zoologger: Sea anemones spawn mixed-up kids

Chimeras – animals formed when two or more individuals fuse – have been found for the first time in a free-living sexual organism

Dato: Tue, 19 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20393
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Evolutionary Babel was in southern Africa

A new linguistic analysis finds that modern language originated in sub-Saharan Africa and spread across the world with migrating human populations

Dato: Thu, 14 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20384
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Genes from algae allow blind mice to see

Blind people could one day have their sight restored thanks to a treatment that borrows a gene from an unlikely source – algae – and installs it into the retina

Dato: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028083.100
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Neanderthals: Bad luck and its part in their downfall

Our long-lost cousins may have simply been unlucky and wiped out by the random genetic lottery of sexual reproduction

Dato: Thu, 07 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028073.400
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Superbug spreads in Delhi sewers

A gene that makes bacteria impervious to many antibiotics is circulating in Indian water systems

Blood test rescues failing transplant organ

By detecting DNA from donor tissue, a blood test allows doctors to ramp up drugs to save transplanted organs

Dato: Mon, 28 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20301
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Where robots labour to overcome genetic disease

In an eerie blue-lit room of the world's biggest human genome sequencing factory, 16 robots are working out what gene mutations cause disease

Dato: Fri, 25 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928053.800
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Biology's 'dark matter' hints at fourth domain of life

Over 99 per cent of organisms remain unknown to science &amp;ndash; so could some of them sit outside the classic three domains of cellular life?

Dato: Fri, 18 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20265
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Gene therapy for Parkinson's passes the ultimate test

A double-blind clinical trial has shown that the symptoms of Parkinson's disease can be alleviated by gene therapy

Dato: Thu, 17 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20254
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Some genetic tests should be 'prescription only'

Genetic tests for serious conditions or to determine a person's response to a drug should not be sold direct to consumers, FDA told

Dato: Tue, 15 Mar 2011
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New Scientist – HIV and AIDS
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One cheap pill protects healthy people from HIV

A daily pill costing 25¢ has dramatically reduced the transmission of HIV to both men and women in three African countries

Dato: Wed, 13 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20692
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HIV epidemic may be coming for indigenous Canadians

Indigenous Canadian women are 20 times as likely to be diagnosed with HIV as non-indigenous women

Dato: Wed, 22 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20601
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$6 billion needed to save 7.4 million people with HIV

An extra $6 billion could take antiretroviral drugs to most of the 9 million people not getting the treatment at present, saving millions of lives by 2020

Dato: Thu, 09 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028162.800
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AIDS epidemiologist: We need a prevention revolution

Thirty years after the first report of AIDS, Seth Berkley>/b< – a veteran of the war on HIV – is confident of victory. But for that, we need a vaccine

Dato: Wed, 08 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028156.400
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Antiviral drugs stop HIV spreading to sexual partners

Giving drugs to healthy but HIV-positive partners could massively reduce the spread of the virus

Dato: Fri, 13 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20478
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Vaccine protects against monkey version of HIV

A live virus can keep the monkey form of HIV in check, giving long-term protection against infection in half the animals tested

Dato: Wed, 11 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20468
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Cellphones get help to India's secret sex workers

Most of India's 2.8 million prostitutes own cellphones – making it easier to contact them about HIV tests

Dato: Tue, 26 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028095.100
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Why 30 years of AIDS is only the tip of an iceberg

June marks 30 years since the first reports of AIDS, but HIV had already been circulating for decades – how did it evade detection?

Dato: Thu, 14 Apr 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028083.200
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Genetic treatment closes door on HIV

HIV may be thwarted by genetically altering blood cells to remove the "door handle" by which the virus invades the cells

Dato: Thu, 03 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928023.300
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HIV-like infection banished from mice

A human protein ramps up the immune system of mice infected with an HIV-like virus, clearing infection

Dato: Fri, 04 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20086
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Cousin virus suggests HIV may be deadly for millennia

Simian immunodeficiency virus, which does not cause AIDS but gave us HIV, seems far older than we thought &amp;ndash; dashing hopes that HIV might weaken soon

Dato: Fri, 17 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19464
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Vaginal gel could slow spread of HIV

In a South African trial, women using an anti-retroviral gel halved their risk of HIV infection &amp;ndash; suggesting use of the gel could slow the epidemic

Dato: Wed, 21 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19203
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Remove HIV's invisibility cloak to defeat it

Blocking a chemical that makes HIV look like a normal cell could be key to ridding people of the virus

Dato: Fri, 21 May 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627614.600
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Fight HIV with HIV: 'safe' virus proposed as vaccine

The idea was dismissed years ago as too risky a proposition, but a new approach shows promise

Dato: Fri, 19 Feb 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18551
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Infection insight raises hopes of better anti-HIV gels

It looks like the RNA version of the virus is what gets passed on via semen

Dato: Wed, 10 Feb 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527473.200
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Drug-resistant HIV set for rapid upsurge

A model of the emergence of drug-resistant forms of the virus in San Francisco suggests they could spread across the world

Dato: Fri, 15 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18394
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Circumcision: there goes the microbial neighbourhood

A census of microbes on the penis reveals a whole new community arrives after circumcision &amp;ndash; perhaps that's why the snip cuts the risk of getting HIV

Dato: Fri, 08 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18358
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Anti-HIV vaginal gel fails

A vaginal gel designed to block HIV infection during sex has failed in a trial of 9385 women

Dato: Mon, 14 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18274
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WHO changes advice on HIV therapy

The World Health Organization now advises giving antiretroviral therapy to people with HIV earlier on in the infection cycle

Dato: Wed, 02 Dec 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18227
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Vaccine quest boosted by HIV that infects monkeys

An HIV virus modified to infect monkeys could be a big step forward for HIV research

Dato: Mon, 23 Nov 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427353.600
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Fears over 'own goal' HIV vaccine revived

Cold virus used in vaccine may raise HIV infection risk after all

Dato: Mon, 16 Nov 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18160
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First HIV vaccine trial success confirmed

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What should we make of the HIV vaccine 'triumph'?

At last, a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine has worked &amp;ndash; sort of. New Scientist takes a look at what this means for the worldwide fight against AIDS

Dato: Thu, 24 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17847
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Discovery of HIV's weak spot boosts vaccine quest

Antibodies that bind to a hitherto unknown weak spot on HIV have been found, reviving hopes that a potent vaccine is within reach

Dato: Thu, 03 Sep 2009
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Second world war bombers changed the weather

Allied bombing raids inadvertently experimented on the weather by producing huge contrails that affected local temperatures

Dato: Thu, 07 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20667
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Europe 1783: Apocalypse then

In 1783 a volcanic eruption decimated Iceland's population and created a choking fog that fell on England &amp;ndash; it may have caused 30,000 further deaths

Dato: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18625002.400
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Blasts from the past: Superstar soprano males

Some 18th-century critics considered Caffarelli's voice the finest in Europe &amp;ndash; but his angel's voice came at the cost of castration

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925441.900
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Blasts from the past: Mr Babbage and the buskers

On 25 July 1864, London's most celebrated curmudgeon unpursed his lips for a few seconds. Parliament had passed a law that might enable him to work in peace
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17924085.100
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Blasts from the past: The Soviet ape-man scandal

Why did Russian zoologist Ilia Ivanov>/b< try so hard to create babies that were half-human, half-ape?

Dato: Tue, 31 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926701.000
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First images from Great Pyramid's chamber of secrets

Graffiti or religious symbols? A robot has sent back the first images of ancient Egyptian markings in a tiny chamber that have not been seen for 4500 years

Dato: Wed, 25 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028144.500
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Royal rumpus over King Tutankhamun's ancestry

A DNA analysis last year hailed as "the final word" on the famous pharaoh's family tree has been criticised as anything but

Dato: Fri, 21 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20014
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Fall of Roman Empire linked to wild shifts in climate

Tree rings tell the history of the rise and fall of European civilisations for 2500 years

Dato: Thu, 13 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19968
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Getting medieval: The first firefights

Flame-throwing lances and fiery arrows: all in a day's work for a medieval armourer. But what was the secret of their inflammatory art?

Dato: Thu, 06 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827920.600
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Fossil secrets of the da Vinci codex

Did Leonardo decipher traces of ancient life centuries before Darwin?

Dato: Wed, 29 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827801.400
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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?

The assumption that ancient corpses are fair game for science is beginning to be challenged

Dato: Fri, 10 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727774.600
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Reconstructed: Archimedes's flaming steam cannon

Archimedes may have built a cannon powered by sun-reflecting mirrors to hurl flaming projectiles at invading Roman forces

Dato: Tue, 13 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19170
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Dear diary, I am sick to death… David Livingstone

The explorer's terrible health and vehement opposition to slavery are clear in letters enhanced by multispectral imaging

Dato: Thu, 01 Jul 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19119
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Earth calling: A short history of radio messages to ET

New Scientist>/b< traces the history of our broadcasts to aliens, from mathematical codes to the sound of vaginal contractions and snack food ads

Dato: Wed, 20 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18417
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A history of walking on water

How did the world's pre-eminent "aquatic pedestrian" stroll over the surface of the Mississippi river in 1907?

Dato: Sun, 03 Jan 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391.500
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Scuba diving to the depths of human history

Many prehistoric people lived by the sea – but rising sea levels have drowned their settlements. To raise their secrets from the seabed, archaeologists are swapping their boots for flippers

Dato: Thu, 19 Nov 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427351.000
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From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums

Mental asylums have a bad name – but they were originally places of sanctuary. See how they lost their reputation in our photographic journey

Dato: Fri, 30 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18081
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Underwater town breaks antiquity record

5000-year-old pottery and new districts found in a sunken settlement off the coast of Greece make it the oldest known underwater town

Dato: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18023
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What should museums throw out?

An archive of NASA photos, a 19th century surgical mask, or a hippo skull. There's no room so one has to go, but which one?

Review: Cracking the Einstein Code by Fulvio Melia

The story of Roy Kerr, the man who solved Einstein's treacherous equations and paved the way for our understanding of black holes

Dato: Sat, 10 Oct 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427295.900
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Alan Turing gets belated apology

The mathematician and code-breaker was ill-treated in the 1950s, admits UK government

Dato: Sat, 19 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327265.500
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The real Turing test: learning to say sorry

It's high time to apologise for mistreating computer guru Alan Turing and turn him into a Great Briton

Dato: Fri, 11 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327256.200
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Review: An Infinity of Things by Frances Larson

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Dato: Tue, 08 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327241.500
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Egyptian temples followed heavenly plans

A study of 650 temples dating from 3000 BC shows that they were laid out to precisely align with astronomical events

Dato: Tue, 08 Sep 2009
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327243.000
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Shedding old light on archaeological artefacts

Modern lighting is bright and harsh compared with the lamps of antiquity, but computer reconstructions are letting us see archaeological sites as their creators did

Dato: Tue, 11 Aug 2009
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Dato: Fri, 01 Jul 2011

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Family ties doubted in Stone Age farmers

Blood may not always be thicker than water &amp;ndash; in a Stone Age village in Turkey people appear not to have lived in families

Dato: Fri, 01 Jul 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20646
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Early hominin women had wanderlust

Trace metals trapped in ancient teeth suggests men lived and died near their birthplace, but women left home after adolescence

Dato: Thu, 02 Jun 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20533
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Out-of-Africa migration selected novelty-seeking genes

As humans migrated around 50,000 years ago, evolution may have latched onto a gene linked to risk-taking and adventurousness

Dato: Fri, 06 May 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028114.400
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Modern bodies: Our 10,000-year makeover

Civilised living has transformed our bodies, from deep within our bones to the tips of our fingers

Dato: Mon, 21 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928041.400
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Fire did not spark human colonisation of cold Europe

A review of archaeological sites suggests that humans gained control of fire more recently than thought – and after the colonisation of Europe

Dato: Mon, 14 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20242
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Fluid societies powered human evolution

Human hunter-gatherer societies swap members more flexibly than groups of other animals do &amp;ndash; could that have driven the rise in brainpower?

Dato: Thu, 10 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20230
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Key to humanity is in missing DNA

It's not the genes we have, but how we use them. Losing chunks of DNA let our brains grow, got rid of beastly whiskers and made sex more intimate

Dato: Wed, 09 Mar 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928033.500
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Did Neanderthals use feathers for fashion?

Culture shock: Neanderthals in what is now Italy may have been playing dress-up 44,000 years ago

Dato: Mon, 21 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20155
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Darwinian dating: Baby, I'm your natural selection

Looking for love? Sharpen up your game with a little evolutionary cunning. Helen Thomson>/b< plays Cupid to test the rules of attraction

Dato: Thu, 10 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927991.600
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You'd beat a Neanderthal in a race

Neanderthals' inferior running ability may have been why they went extinct and our ancestors did not

Dato: Thu, 03 Feb 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927984.700
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Did modern humans go global twice as early as thought?

Tools left by Homo sapiens in Arabia 120,000 years ago might mean we have to rethink when humans left Africa to colonise the world

Dato: Thu, 27 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20042
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Neanderthals' ugly faces weren't adaptations to cold

Scans of the skulls of Neanderthals suggest the shape of their faces didn't evolve to warm inhaled air

Dato: Thu, 13 Jan 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19965
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In our own image: Why we treat things like people

Cursing computers, talking to plants, even putting pigs on trial: anthropomorphism may be irrational, but it's how we cope with an indifferent world

Dato: Mon, 29 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827881.400
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Human evolution was shaped by plate tectonics

The course of human evolution was plotted by the shifting and shaking of the Earth's crust

Dato: Wed, 10 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827864.000
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Our ancestors had to grow bigger brains to make axes

Motion-capture technology proves that early humans were held back by mental faculties, not dexterity, when it came to creating complex tools

Dato: Thu, 04 Nov 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19677
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Sharp Stone Age spearheads were cooked then flaked

An ingenious trick for making sharp stone spearheads was invented 50,000 years earlier than we thought

Dato: Thu, 28 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19654
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Hunter-gatherers cared for first known ancient invalid

Too old to hunt, he probably needed a cane and suffered terrible back pain – and other early humans 500,000 years ago must have looked after him

Dato: Mon, 11 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19568
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Cosmic accidents: Inventing language, the easy way

Fresh pastures meant a cosier life for early humans – if they hadn't, we would never have loosened up enough to learn to speak

Dato: Sat, 02 Oct 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727796.300
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Do Egyptian mummies have a right to privacy?

The assumption that ancient corpses are fair game for science is beginning to be challenged

Dato: Fri, 10 Sep 2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727774.600
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Master gene-shuffler makes us all different