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Flying, flocking, and squirming robots at IROS
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 22:40)
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The robots of IROS, presented late last month, took their inspiration from worms, birds, and bees
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New twist in the tale of Tutankhamun's club foot
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 22:00)
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Last year, evidence emerged that boy king Tutankhamun had a club foot. Now experts aren't so sure
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About time: Does it really fly when you're having fun?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 21:00)
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Time seems to slow down when you're frightened and speed up when you're having fun– so what happens when you fall off a tower? Linda Geddes has the answer (full text available to subscribers)
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Robot Fight Club: This is the Real Steel
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 20:40)
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Giant robots smashing each other up is great entertainment and the technology to make it happen is not that far away
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Stars in your eyes to help blind people see
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 20:36)
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Mapping the size and colour of the flashes of light we see when we stand up too quickly could bring vision to people who are blind
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Three-way race to reach lost Antarctic lakes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 20:11)
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As a Russian expedition pushes down to Lake Vostok, British scientists head to Lake Ellsworth and a US group plans to drill Lake Whillans
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About time: Adventures in the fourth dimension
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 19:59)
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Does it flow in only one direction? Is it a figment of our imagination? And can it provide the elusive theory of everything? New Scientist travels into time
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Carbon bubble could threaten markets… maybe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 19:53)
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Shaky assumptions about future fossil-fuel use are buoying financial markets and could trigger another crash one day, a green-energy entrepreneur says
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Quorum sensing makes flashing bacteria blink together
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 19:36)
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Acting as a group, these E. coli create a stunning synchronised light show
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What is your place in nature?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-10-11 18:38)
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Poet and linguist Melanie Challenger tours half the the world in On Extinction: How we became estranged from nature
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