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Today on New Scientist: 1 July 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-2 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: cashing in on the genetic lottery, the oldest multicellular life, and playing Tetris in 3D
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Home birth increases risk of baby's death
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-2 1:55)
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Having your baby at home increases mortality risk by almost a third, reports Helen Thomson - but the overall risk is still small
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Water droplets create multilayered display
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 23:34)
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Projecting images onto a series of parallel "waterfalls" creates the illusion of a 3D display
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X-games in space: Record-smashing probes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 23:33)
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From the fastest to the farthest, meet the space missions that have set records for extreme achievement
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Plant nurseries in clover after finding four-leaf gene
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 23:04)
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Gene finds could give us all the four-leaf clovers we want, as well as other rare coloured and patterned varieties, and new ornamental hybrids
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Cosmic bubble made cold spot in big bang afterglow
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 22:54)
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Such bubbles might have formed just fractions of a second after the universe came into existence, when it grew dramatically in size
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Gulf oil spill: Are dispersants not so bad after all?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 21:37)
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The dispersants being used to clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be less toxic than initially thought
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Turbo-boosting plants won't save us from climate change
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 21:10)
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A slew of new studies suggest that plants will not start storing extra carbon dioxide and slow down global warming, says Michael Marshall
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When Egyptian plunder made Enlightenment propaganda
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 21:08)
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Catholic doctrine meets Egyptian astronomy in The Zodiac of Paris by Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz
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Fossilised cell blobs could be oldest multicellular life
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-7-1 20:50)
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At 2.1 billion years old, the 12-centimetre-long fossils from Gabon are 200 million years older than the previous record-holder
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