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This week's top stories [05 March 2010]
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 23:00)
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Our top articles ranked by reader popularity. Newborns' blood used to build secret DNA database Happiness ain't all it's cracked up to be Today on New Scientist: 26 February 2010 Greener gadget designs Innovation: Bloom didn't start a fuel-cell revolution Massive Antarctic iceberg threatens ocean circulation Women and children first? How long have you got? Pest control that's too hot for bugs to handle Hella way to describe massive numbers Giant dino-eating snake killed in action
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Journal editor: Tobacco-funded studies are bad for us
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:56)
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Several journals will no longer publish research supported by the tobacco industry. Ginny Barbour , the chief editor of one of them, explains why
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Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:49)
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NASA's WISE mission has spotted 16 near-Earth objects that had previously been hidden in the dark
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Bugging bugs: Learning to speak microbe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:36)
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Far from being silent loners, bacteria are little chatterboxes? when they're not snooping on us. Perhaps we should brush up our conversational skills
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For a long life, smile like you mean it
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 22:26)
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Players with honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than players who didn't smile and five years longer than those who faked it
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For smaller chips, borrow 18th-century tricks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 18:00)
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It's getting harder and harder to shrink silicon chips ever smaller– a solution might be to return to the roots of lithographic printing
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Methane bubbling out of Arctic Ocean - but is it new?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 4:00)
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An expanse of seabed is leaking the greenhouse gas into the air, rekindling fears that global warming might unlock billions of tonnes of the stuff
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Today on New Scientist: 4 March 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 3:00)
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All today's stories from newscientist.com at a glance, including: the third nuclear option, seven possible theories of everything, and a DIY space station
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Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 0:33)
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We still don't have a theory that describes the fundamental nature of the universe, but there are plenty of candidates
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Shields down! Earth's mag field may drop in a flash
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-5 0:21)
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Even our best models would fail to predict whether Earth's magnetic field will flip, exposing us to space radiation
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