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Cut-price DNA test ignites genetic discrimination fears
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-17 1:46)
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Customers who take an insurance company up on its offer of a low-cost genetic test could stymie their chances of getting life insurance
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Today on New Scientist: 15 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-16 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the star that time forgot, a new operating system for life, and the experiment that's getting the vacuum of space into a twist
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Dusty mirrors on the moon obscure tests of relativity
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-16 2:53)
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Mirrors left facing Earth on the lunar surface aren't reflecting astronomer's lasers as well as they should
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Atom smasher shows vacuum of space in a twist
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-16 2:27)
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A heavy ion collider has produced evidence of vortices that form from the vacuum of space, boosting theories that explain how atoms get their mass
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Weather model shows where California will burn
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-16 2:17)
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A new wildfire risk map is the first to take into account the winds that stoke many of the worst fires
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Anti-ageing cream as good as drug at reducing wrinkles
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-16 0:07)
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An anti-wrinkle cream has gone head-to-head with a gold-standard prescription drug– after 16 weeks, it produced similar benefits
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A gene for Alzheimer's makes you smarter
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-15 23:42)
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Paradoxically, young people with a gene variant that increases the risk of Alzheimer's have better memories than their peers
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Pliable power pack will let gadgets feed on your body
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-15 21:49)
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Sheets of material that produce voltage when flexed could generate power from the motion of the human body
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Don't turn good scientists into poor entrepreneurs
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-15 20:00)
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How can we make money out of science? The UK's science minister has some good ideas, and one that is very bad
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Fractals, play and mosquito conspiracies: TED wraps up
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-15 18:30)
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The last few days of the conference offered a strange cocktail of speakers, from Bill Gates to Sarah Silverman, says Amanda Gefter
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