Today on New Scientist: 19 October 2009
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-20 2:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: why your oldest ancestor may have been a rock, the colourful promises of electronic paper, and how to spot an alien by his pollution
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Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-20 0:18)
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Forget primordial soup: the cradle of life may have been a foaming stone
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First evidence that bird flu is spread sexually
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 23:15)
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Bird flu may be a sexually transmitted infection, at least in ducks– and the less well-endowed the male, the greater the chance of spreading the virus
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$500,000 treasure dug up in lunar soil
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 22:57)
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For the first time a robot labourer has dug enough simulated lunar soil to win NASA's annual prize
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We will be billions of dollars poorer when coral dies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 22:34)
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The world's coral reefs "earn" $172 billion every year, but they're on the brink of collapse, economist says
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[ニュース] JAXA「航空プログラムシンポジウム」レポート〜無人機や超音速旅客機などを題材に同グループ4年
from Robot Watch
(2009-10-19 22:26)
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Chromosome staining boosts IVF success
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 22:21)
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A new way of selecting which IVF embryos to transfer into the uterus appears to increase the chance of a successful pregnancy and birth
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'Monkey trial' drama is more than a defence of evolution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 21:33)
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The current London production of Inherit the Wind shows how the battle lines between Darwinism and intelligent design are not always easy to draw
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Stop giving antipsychotics to people with dementia
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 21:27)
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As we live longer, more of us face the horrors of Alzheimer's disease? and the very worst kind of treatment for it, says Irving Kirsch
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The colourful promises of electronic paper
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-10-19 19:03)
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E-readers are sure to be a popular present this Christmas– so why are they all in black and white, and where's the video?
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