Laser 'tractor beams' to tidy up space junk
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-29 22:47)
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A new thruster design could make it possible for dead satellites to be pushed, pulled and steered by lasers aboard other craft
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UK election: Round one to the Science Party
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-29 22:00)
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The Science Party's candidate Michael Brooks has given his homeopathy-supporting opponent David Tredinnick a verbal mauling, says Adam Duckett
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Vaccine fever in Oz: Is the risk real?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 23:30)
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Just when you thought the swine flu fuss had died down, a new vaccine scare bubbles up in Australia. We shouldn't be worried, says Debora MacKenzie
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We're flying to an asteroid? but which one?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 22:39)
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Finding suitable space rocks to visit will be far from easy, and the problems don't end when astronauts get there
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Zoologger: The most bizarre life story on Earth?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 22:09)
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There's something strange living on lobster mouths– an animal unlike any other, with an astonishingly complex way of reproducing itself
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Leonardo da Vinci, the untaught genius
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 21:42)
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Stefan Klein's new book outlines a life of study and speculation about anatomy, flying machines, weapons and hydrodynamics? all without long division
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Towel-folding robot hopes to be labs' standard model
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 21:00)
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See a new robot intended to help researchers spend less time fiddling with unreliable hardware and more time developing smarter behaviour
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Anil Seth: How we'll find out what consciousness is
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 20:15)
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The co-director of a new centre for studying consciousness talks about the essence of redness, the dimensions of experience– and feeling unreal
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Bubble-blowing black holes explain stellar dearth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 16:00)
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A puzzling lack of stars in the centre of galaxy clusters could be down to the "bubbles" of hot gas blown by a black hole
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Native American settlement highlights DNA dilemma
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-28 2:30)
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How can the principle of informed consent be squared with the wide-ranging possible uses of donors' DNA?
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