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Today on New Scientist: 19 October 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 2:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: Stone Age burgers, what to do if big pharma breaks the law and how to simulate white holes at home
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Solar eclipse witnessed from space
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 1:50)
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded its first lunar transit when the moon passed directly between the spacecraft and the sun
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Morality: Beyond intuition
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 1:42)
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Some philosophers say intuitive moral responses are what count? but evidence on the nature of morality undermines this authority, says Peter Singer
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This incompetent robot will self-destruct
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 1:13)
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The Antimov challenge held last weekend in Colorado invited people to create clumsy automatons designed to break Asimov's third law of robotics
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50 ideas to change science forever: Computing
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 0:35)
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Wouldn't it be great if the internet understood what you wanted? It will, and will be studying its human symbionts too, and all at ever-faster speeds
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Kitchen sink experiment simulates exotic white holes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-20 0:07)
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White holes– theoretical opposites of black holes– so far exist only on paper, but a new experiment confirms we simulate their behaviour whenever we turn on the kitchen tap
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When big pharma breaks the law, prosecute the CEO
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-19 23:10)
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Patient safety will remain at risk until big pharma's top executives are brought to book for their companies' actions, says Paul Thacker
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Neanderthals did not shop at prehistoric Tiffany's
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-19 20:45)
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Jewellery and tools from a cave in France were actually made by modern humans, if a new radiocarbon dating study is to be believed
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Morality: Don't be afraid? science can make us better
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-19 20:13)
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We should embrace rather than fear the knowledge science brings as it unravels morality's muddles, says Fiery Cushman
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'Fractalist' Benoît Mandelbrot dies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-19 5:08)
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The father of fractal geometry spent his career searching for the hidden order in nature
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