Cheers, Neptune, on your first 'anniversary'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 4:36)
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The outermost planet has completed its first entire orbit of the sun since its discovery in 1846
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Today on New Scientist: 12 July 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: The world's first double leg transplant, quantum graphs, and a dual-sex butterfly
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Newspaper phone-hacking scandal goes beyond voicemail
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 1:34)
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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
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Weather round-up for the solar system
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 1:23)
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Cyclones, lightning, snow and carbon-monoxide frost? New Scientist finds there's plenty of weather in the sun's family of planets and moons
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Rare dual-sex butterfly hatches at museum
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 1:05)
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One half sports female sex traits and the other male in this rare dual-sex butterfly at London's Natural History Museum– but what are its sexual preferences?
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Artificially grown tooth transplanted into mouse
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 1:00)
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A tooth grown from embryonic cells has been successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouse
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World's first double leg transplant performed in Spain
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 0:19)
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Doctors have transplanted two legs from a cadaver to a young man who lost his own limbs in an accident
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The art of sustainability
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 0:10)
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Growing graffiti, reinventing skateboards, harnessing the wind. Sustainable artists examine the ecology of human influence.
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TEPCO razed a hill to build Fukushima on low ground
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 0:05)
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Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by a tsunami in March– because the owners cleared away a 35-metre hill before they built it
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Newts able to regenerate body parts indefinitely
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-7-13 0:00)
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The lenses in newts' eyes were able to regenerate after being removed– 18 times
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