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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Looking down on the tallest structure ever built
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 2:48)
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The highest resolution satellite in operation took this shot of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, the highest structure ever built
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China bucks recession trend to keep emissions high
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 2:11)
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The global financial crisis caused carbon emissions to drop in 2009, but not by as much as expected as China and India kept growing
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US tops new list of greenest supercomputers
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-23 2:04)
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In the race to make the greatest supercomputers on the planet, speed isn't everything– environmental impact matters, too
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