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Zoologger: colour tricks help put a cuckoo in the nest
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-4 1:11)
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Unlike most birds, female cuckoos come in different colours– it's all part of a strategy to avoid raising their own chicks
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Two separate extinctions brought end to dinosaur era
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-4 1:04)
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Evidence of two distinct events may explain why such a high number– around three-quarters– of species died out 65 million years ago
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Video reveals how a moth can become invisible
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-4 0:57)
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Watch a moth use a clever trick to blend seamlessly into the bark of a tree
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Five civilisations that climate change may have doomed
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-4 0:43)
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The decline of many great civilisations, and periods of war and unrest, have coincided with changes in the climate
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Iran Space Agency to launch a monkey into space
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-4 0:28)
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A rhesus macaque may become the next space tourist after the Iran Space Agency announces plans to ramp up its space programme
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Z, the diamond-melting machine with lightning veins
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-3 23:36)
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This picture is as close as anyone has ever got to the Z machine - the huge electromagnetic pulses it generates to research nuclear fusion are deadly
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Feedback: Isaac Newton, action and reaction hero
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-3 21:15)
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Physics in development hell, Alan Turing meets the call-centre operative, algorithm-free software, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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US women begin receiving free birth control
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-3 20:46)
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Under new US healthcare law, birth control and other women's medical services will now be free for many women
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Tales of the first seafarers
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-3 20:30)
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Jaw-dropping insights into the first ocean-goers get lost in a sea of repetition, PLUS: letting the Mississippi flood and a hidden history of the cell
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Robot trading loses firm $440 million in 45 minutes
from New Scientist - Online news
(2012-8-3 20:07)
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An "unapologetic advocate" of high-frequency computerised stock trading has suffered a massive blow– thanks to a failure of its technology
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