Covert hard drive fragmentation embeds a spy's secrets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 22:50)
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A way of hiding messages stored on a hard disc by fragmenting them avoids arousing suspicion by using obvious encryption
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Feedback: When roads burst into song
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 22:28)
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Terrible driving music, the National Union of Stew Departments, pyramid telling, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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25 years after Chernobyl, we don't know how many died
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 21:13)
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A quarter of a century after the world's worst nuclear accident, experts still can't agree how many people it killed
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Deepwater Horizon: assessing the impact, one year on
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 21:04)
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One year ago the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing 11 workers and releasing 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
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Amazon server failure knocks out social web
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 20:25)
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Problems with the company's web-hosting service have taken many sites offline
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Stem cell art with a little bite
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 19:55)
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A new project aims to raise awareness of stem cells by building a palace of baby teeth
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Concern over weight-loss drug side effects
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 19:55)
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A consumer group wants the only US-approved weight-loss drug banned, after new evidence has linked it to liver and kidney problems
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File-sharers face clampdown after court battle fails
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 19:33)
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It looks like British internet service providers are going to be forced to poke around in their customers data traffic on behalf of the recording industry
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Want to stay anonymous online? Don't share files
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 19:05)
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The popular tool for staying anonymous online, Tor, has a flaw that could allow a large number of users to be traced
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How to be happy: Don't try too hard
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 18:15)
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The pursuit of happiness is in danger of becoming an unhealthy obsession. We should learn to go with the flow, says philosopher Pascal Bruckner (full text available to subscribers)
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