Today on New Scientist: 9 April 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-10 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: scientific expeditions without a PhD, proof that Venus still has active volcanoes, and particle physicists with a beef
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Innovation: iPad is child's play but not quite magical
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-10 1:02)
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Apple's new tablet computer is impressively user-friendly and has some neat features, but isn't all things to all people– especially not techies
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Save the whales, not the whalers
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-10 0:00)
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The world is poised to cave in to demands for a resumption of commercial whaling. How did it come to this, ask Mark Simmonds and Sue Fisher
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Rappers with a beef– particle physics style
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 23:30)
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"LHC rapper" Katherine McAlpine offers her verdict on a fresh rap about the Tevatron collider
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Wonder lust: Scientific expeditions without a PhD
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 23:14)
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Ever wanted to see a nuclear bomb site, a sea monster? or just a truly dark sky? Here's our pick of the world's most fascinating destinations to visit
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Almost human: closest australopithicine primate found
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 2:16)
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Another long-lost cousin is unearthed– of all the australopithicines yet found, it's the closest anatomically to the true humans that evolved into us
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Today on New Scientist: 8 April 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the dawn of the elderly age, new cracks in China's great firewall, and why time waits for no quasar
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Are new cracks appearing in China's great firewall?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 0:41)
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Changes to the country's censorship tools may be allowing users in China to glimpse previously blocked web pages
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The climate-change nightmares of military strategists
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 0:30)
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Nuclear war, millions dead, Europe collapsed: Gwynne Dyer's mechanistic predictions of the coming decades makes Climate Wars terrifying but improbable
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Giant mimivirus does its replication in-house
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 23:34)
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Analysis of the monster's genome shows that it builds its own virus factory, supporting the idea that giant viruses shaped all animal and plant cells
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