Engines of the future: Shrewder, swifter searches
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-24 2:22)
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Standard searches can't keep up with the latest news and tweets, so engines have to get smarter about where they look? and maybe ask your friends too (full text available to subscribers)
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US bans sale of alcoholic drinks with caffeine kick
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-24 1:07)
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Drinks dubbed "blackout in a can" are deemed "unsafe" by US Food and Drug Administration and removed from sale
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Fertilised eggs get microscopic bar codes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-24 0:50)
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It's an ingenious solution for keeping track of embryos during IVF: identification numbers embedded into eggs
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Nobel winners: Fun with frogs, pencils and Scotch tape
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 23:20)
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Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov on the importance of play and the prospects for graphene, the wonder material that brought them global fame (full text available to subscribers)
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Best of web video: November 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 22:14)
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From dancing DNA to an immune system in action, we bring you the top science videos posted online this month
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North Korea could make two nuclear bombs per year
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 21:44)
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The exchange of fire between North and South Korea today comes hard on the heels of revelations of a new North Korean uranium enrichment facility
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Leo and $50 million: is it enough to save the tiger?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 20:20)
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As the 13 countries with wild tigers struggle to agree how to protect them, $50 million is pledged to protect the animals, and Leonardo DiCaprio adds his support
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NASA's spare solar sail reaches orbit
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 8:21)
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More than two years after a rocket failure destroyed a new experimental solar sail, NASA has successfully launched a spare into orbit
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Robotic elephant trunk could hang with humans
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 4:30)
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The first robot arm inspired by an elephant's trunk has just gone on show in Germany
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Today on New Scientist: 22 November 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: quantum time travel, the Milky Way's smallest black holes and a new stem cell trial or blindness
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