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Alien planet hunter develops a blind spot
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-31 2:59)
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NASA's Kepler telescope, which is seeking planets like Earth, has developed a fault that means it sees only the equivalent of static in some regions of the sky
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Smallest superconductor promises cool electronics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-31 2:27)
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A wire just four molecules long behaves as a superconductor– suggesting it may be possible to build molecular circuits without them overheating
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Ian McEwan: Mr Sunshine
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-31 2:00)
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His new novel, Solar, is about climate change, and he's bored by fiction that is only about emotions. But what's the sensual attraction of chemistry?
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Today on New Scientist: 30 March 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-31 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: bats steering by compass and also dying of a mystery disease, why slow thinking is good and what's wrong with TV doctors
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House and Grey's Anatomy: Doctors gone bad?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 23:45)
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Fictional TV doctors prove ethically lax when it comes to the rules on informed consent and sex with nurses
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Brain damage skews our moral compass
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 23:31)
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The discovery is helping to unravel how we make moral judgements? and has implications for people's fitness to serve as jurors or judges
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Why space shuttle exhaust races to the poles
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 22:57)
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It's been a mystery why the exhaust plume from shuttle engines travels faster than expected? now we have the answer
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Is this the end of gene patenting?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 19:57)
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By declaring that breast cancer genes can't be patented, a US court has raised questions about all other US gene patents, says Andy Coghlan
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Record LHC collisions mark new era for physics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 19:48)
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Engineers at the Large Hadron Collider have smashed together beams at 7 teraelectronvolts– the start of the physics programme, says Richard Fisher
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String theory untangled
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-30 18:29)
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You might finish Steven S.?Gubser's engaging and entertaining The Little Book of String Theory more confused than you started it, but in the best way
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