Drastic measures save plastic treasures
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-22 16:00)
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Is plastic indestructible? Far from it: with iconic artefacts crumbling before our eyes, we'll have to think fast to preserve the 20th century's legacy
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Hawking speaks on God, the big bang and novel physics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-22 3:00)
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Stephen Hawking remembers the bad old days when many physicists bristled at the idea of a big bang, with its echoes of the biblical Genesis story
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Innovation: Microsoft's Kinect isn't just for games
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-22 2:31)
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Technology that leaves hands free will soon go beyond gaming, leading to applications that change the way we interact with the the world around us
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Today on New Scientist: 21 June 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-22 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: what we still don't know about the human genome, bacteria that bury CO2, and free-falling atoms
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Chimpanzees kill to win new territory
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-22 1:00)
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A 10-year conflict between rival chimp troops in Uganda could help explain the evolutionary origins of some cooperative behaviour in humans
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Green machine: Bacteria will keep CO2 safely buried
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-21 21:55)
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Sequestering the carbon from fossil-fuel power stations can cut emissions– and there's a new recipe to keep it locked away underground
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Blogs and tweets could predict the future
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-21 21:30)
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Analysing people's online musings could be used to predict everything from car sales to unemployment rates and stock prices
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New Scientist TV - Best of the web
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-21 21:00)
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Video can capture science in action like nothing else? from nuking a blown-out gas well to HIV spreading in real time
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Liar, liar: Why deception is our way of life
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-21 20:29)
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From little fibs to outright propaganda, falsehood is second nature? but in a wired-up world, it could be disastrous, says psychologist Dorothy Rowe
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Bonobos have a secret
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-6-21 19:35)
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In Bonobo Handshake, Vanessa Wood comes to the realisation that these apes have a vital lesson for us humans
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