Innovation: Bloom didn't start a fuel-cell revolution
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-27 0:55)
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The Californian company has grabbed the headlines, but fuel cells are already sparking a new era in energy
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This week's top stories [26 February 2010]
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 23:00)
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Our top articles ranked by reader popularity. Newborns' blood used to build secret DNA database Today on New Scientist: 19 February 2010 Robot film crew knows what sports fans like Who needs banks if you have a mobile phone? Even in the virtual world, men judge women on looks A headbutt spells danger in bee talk Visualization Challenge: Prizewinning pictures Silicon wire forest makes wearable solar cells Linchpin of immune system doubles as stroke protector Fight HIV with HIV: 'safe' virus proposed as vaccine
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Arctic arch failure leads to sea-ice exodus
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 22:00)
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Dams of ice that usually plug straits leading out of the Arctic Ocean are failing to form, letting sea ice escape to the Atlantic and Pacific
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A gigantic, muddled, jigsaw-puzzle view of science
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 21:00)
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From HIV denial to string theory and from postmodernism to petamachines, In Praise of Science by Sander Bais is a coffee-table love letter to science
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Killer whale: the clue's in the name
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 20:15)
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Perhaps the oddest explanation for a killer whale trainer's death this week is that the animal was enacting a mating behaviour, says Rowan Hooper
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The changing image of spam
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 19:54)
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Five snapshots of the spam lexicon that illustrate spammers' changing tactics
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A quiet sun won't save us from global warming
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 19:00)
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Even if there's a "grand minimum" in the sun's output over the next century, it won't be enough to counter rising temperatures caused by humans
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Spamdemic: Tracking the plague of junk mail
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 17:00)
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From Monty Python to mass-mailing misery, New Scientist charts the unstoppable rise of spam
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Getting the Royal Society stamp of approval
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 4:14)
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Take a look at new British postage stamps celebrating giants of science, in honour of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary
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50-year countdown to an apeless world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 4:00)
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Paul Raffaele has lost toenails and braved bushmeat hunters and animal attacks to meet great apes– it was well worth it, says Stephanie Pain
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