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Existence: Is there more than one me?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-3 1:01)
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Travel far enough if any direction and you would meet a second version of yourself? no exotic physics required, says Marcus Chown (full text available to subscribers)
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Breast cancer gene patent reinstated
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-3 0:32)
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The genes patented by Myriad Genetics omit non-coding regions, making them "unnatural" and patentable, an appeal court has ruled
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Sense of place: Networked art probes virtual worlds
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-3 0:00)
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At the Siggraph art gallery in Vancouver, Canada, networked art explores the interplay of virtual and physical spaces
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Michael Brooks: Alleged hacker is my biggest fan
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 23:44)
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The author responds to the wave of publicity after alleged LulzSec hacker Jake Davis carried a copy of his new book, Free Radicals, into court
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Mob move into organised wildlife crime
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 23:20)
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Where animal heads might once have been put in people's beds, crime syndicates are now trading them– especially when they belonged to iconic animals
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The carbon cost of Germany's nuclear 'Nein danke!'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 22:19)
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Europe's energy consumers will find themselves paying a high price for Germany's decision to get out of nuclear power, says David Strahan
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Seattle scientists snuff out wildfire myths
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 20:53)
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In a discussion at a US Forest Service lab last week, wild fire scientists tried to dispel myths about battling the giant blazes
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Foxconn aims for a million robot workers by 2014
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 20:50)
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The Taiwanese gadget manufacturer wants to cut rising labour costs by employing robots, but such a large increase won't be easy
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Nuclear worries for Japan as quake rocks south coast
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 20:17)
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As an earthquake shook the ground near Japan's most perilous nuclear plant in Hamaoka, lethally high hot spots of radiation have been reported at Fukushima
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Patchwork people: Our hybrid origins
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-8-2 20:10)
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In the past year, we've learned that early Homo sapiens interbred with other hominins? and it's forcing us to rethink our family tree (full text available to subscribers)
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