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Today on New Scientist: 4 October 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-5 2:21)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: BigDog robot, Pirate politicians and a post-fossil-fuel world
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Pirate politician: We want open, online government
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-5 2:04)
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An uberconnected world need a new politics, says Ben de Biel , spokesman for the Pirates party, who are making waves in Berlin, Germany
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Scott's biographer: British polar hero was incompetent
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-5 1:43)
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Captain Scott was a morbid romantic, the victim of a tradition of heroic failure, says Roland Huntford ? and Amundsen's diary makes much better reading
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Time-lapse Tuesday: Bug sucks up worm's guts
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-5 0:29)
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Using its specialised mandible like a straw, this bug extracts a hornworm's insides while leaving its casing intact
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Nanotubes help cloak objects in a mirage
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-5 0:06)
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Underwater cloaking devices could be a step closer thanks to heated sheets of carbon nanotubes that deflect light just like a mirage
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Instant Expert: The atomic nucleus
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-4 23:58)
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The past century has been called "the nuclear age"– but, as Phil Walker explains in our latest expert guide, the atomic nucleus still hides many mysteries
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Invisible gas glows in first image from radio array
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-4 23:33)
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The nascent ALMA radio telescope array sheds new light on the colliding Antennae Galaxies
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Still-mysterious dark energy takes physics Nobel
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-4 22:11)
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Cosmologists who used exploding stars to deduce that the expansion of the universe is accelerating have won the physics prize
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BigDog robot gets an even bigger brother
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-4 21:57)
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Robotics firm Boston Dynamics wowed crowds with the stout quadruped robot "AlphaDog", and the humanoid bot "PETMAN"
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Infant anaesthesia link with learning difficulties
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-4 21:57)
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Only infants who underwent two or more procedures were at greater risk of learning problems later on
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