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Galactic liaisons on Hubble anniversary
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 1:00)
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An image of two interacting galaxies contains clues about a past rendez-vous and hints of a third hidden object
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The secret superpower of the cockroach
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 0:43)
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You don't need to be tough to conquer the world's kitchens, but you do need one extraordinary ability, discovers Wendy Zukerman (full text available to subscribers)
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How to be happy: The optimist manifesto
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-22 0:26)
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Psychology can and should do more than reduce mental suffering, argues positive psychology guru Martin Seligman in his persuasive book Flourish
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Build complex objects from Lego-like blocks
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 23:53)
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Watch a new digital system assemble complex stuctures from interlocking blocks
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Immortality of all cancer cells exposed as a myth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-4-21 23:01)
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Only aggressive cancer cells that spread have the ability to live forever, providing new clues to the best treatment
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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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