'Private' BlackBerry network won't shield rioters
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-9 4:09)
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The messaging services used to help organise rioting in London will be accessible to law enforcement
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Today on New Scientist: 8 August 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-9 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Somali archaeology, beyond space-time, and the dinosaur that died in its tracks
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Black gold holds a charge for green cars
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-9 1:10)
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The next generation of electric-car batteries may thrive on a secret sauce that looks like crude oil
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Basics and batik of climate change
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 23:55)
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Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey's Global Climate Change: A primer is illustrated by Mary Edna Fraser's batiks
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The dinosaur that died in its tracks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 21:53)
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Palaeontologists often find new dinosaur bones, or new fossilised dinosaur footprints– but until now, the two types of fossil have never been found together
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North Korea turns to online game hacking to raise cash
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 21:48)
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Crushed by antinuclear weapons sanctions the North Korean regime is hacking computer games to make money
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NASA lands at the Lego convention
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 21:09)
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From duelling robots to NASA space shuttles, the annual Brickfair Lego fan festival featured Lego creations as varied as the builders' imaginations
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Somali archaeologist: We need culture in a time of war
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 19:34)
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As a child Sada Mire was forced to flee Somalia. Now she is back, uncovering ancient rock art and towns as the only working archaeologist in the region (full text available to subscribers)
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Mighty Mars rover on the blocks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 19:12)
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Curiosity, the biggest planetary rover ever constructed, was built in the ultimate custom shop– NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California
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Beyond space-time: Welcome to phase space
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-8 18:27)
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A theory of reality beyond Einstein's universe is taking shape? and a mysterious cosmic signal could soon fill in the blanks, says Amanda Gefter
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