Retinal cone cells transplanted into blind mice
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 8:01)
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Cone cells vital for colour vision have been transplanted successfully for the first time, taking us a step closer to restoring vision to the blind
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Mars moon may have formed like our own
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:10)
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The Martian moon Phobos was thought to be a captured asteroid, but new observations suggest it coalesced from debris blasted off its mother planet, like Earth's moon
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Development goals: five years to save the world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:05)
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The Millennium Development Goals invite cynicism like few other global agreements, but science-based interventions are working
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Today on New Scientist: 21 September 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: transgenic superspuds, daisies that offer flies sex, and the hack that caused chaos on Twitter
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Robots on TV: 'AquaPad' controls robot dive buddy
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 1:53)
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Divers exploring shipwrecks and underwater caves could control robot assistants more safely and easily with a waterproof tablet computer
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Large Hadron Collider spies hints of infant universe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 1:47)
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The LHC has revealed hints of what may be the hot, dense state of matter thought to have filled the universe in its first nanoseconds
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How mouse hack caused chaos on Twitter
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 0:17)
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Many Twitter users briefly lost control of their accounts today, after a bug appeared on the social networking site
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Anxious stem cell scientists await ruling
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-22 0:10)
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Scientists in the US face mounting disruption to federally funded research as they await a court ruling over whether their work can continue
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Innovation: What's the right path for indoor satnav?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-21 23:47)
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Nascent indoor positioning and navigation systems might share the runaway success of GPS satnav– if we can agree how they should work
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Arctic bugs may have the longest life-cycle on Earth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-21 23:34)
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With a hibernation period of up to 100 million years, bacteria discovered on the Arctic sea floor may have the longest life cycle of any known organism
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