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Your clever body: Thinking from head to toe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-22 1:16)
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There's more to your mind than your brain, David Robson discovers? your body plays a part in everything from social savvy to mathematical ability (full text available to subscribers)
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Astrophile: The sticky star cluster that's mostly black hole
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-22 1:15)
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Perched next to a gravitational titan, does a star cluster's mysterious cohesion come from a dense swarm of hidden black holes?
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A better way to price the future takes hold
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-22 0:34)
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Disastrous short-term thinking is built into economic models world-wide, but a different approach is changing that
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Inside the fusion furnace of California's star chamber
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-22 0:25)
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The US National Ignition Facility aims to harness the power of fusion at temperatures and pressures similar to those inside a detonating nuclear warhead
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Why the UK buried a world-first carbon-capture scheme
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-22 0:07)
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The British government has dealt a body blow to hopes of mitigating global warming by capturing greenhouse gases. But is it fatal, wonders Stuart Haszeldine
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Steven Pinker: Humans are less violent than ever
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-21 23:36)
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Pessimists, anti-capitalists, conservatives and greens, take note? we are much more peaceful now than we used to be, says the psychologist
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Launch of Galileo satellites heralds new era
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-21 22:15)
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It is the beginning of the end of Europe's dependence on the US GPS fleet, and a boon for science too
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Exotic pets USA: Tigers, big bucks and organised crime
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-21 21:40)
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Want pet kangaroos or tiger kittens? Lax laws and a multibillion-dollar trafficking industry mean it's easy to keep exotic animals in the US
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Mosquito vs raindrop match video settles urban myths
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-21 20:35)
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Do mosquitoes fly in the rain? High-speed video shows how the insects survive a direct hit from a droplet that has 50 times their mass
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Grave-robbing robot could revive dead satellites
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-21 20:34)
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A DARPA plan to harvest parts from dead satellites would cut the cost of launching new ones
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