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Why is 'Neanderthal' still a byword for dumb brute?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 3:25)
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The notion that Neanderthals went extinct because they were too dim-witted to compete with modern humans is losing its currency among the general public. About time, says Ewen Callaway
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UK facilities crisis: cock-up or conspiracy?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 3:08)
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Physicist Brian Cox responds to John Womersley, director of science programmes at the British Science and Technology Facilities Council
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Today on New Scientist: 11 January 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 3:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how popping a pill could stop you hitting the bottle, an artificial leaf that could make green hydrogen, and designing highways the slime mould way
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UK facilities crisis: cock-up or conspiracy?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 2:22)
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Physicist Brian Cox responds to John Womersley, director of science programmes at the British government's Science and Technology Facilities Council
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Songs in the key of life: What makes music emotional?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 1:59)
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As with tunes, speech in a major key sounds cheerful, while minor-key tales sound gloomy and depressing
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Quantum computers do chemistry
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-12 0:54)
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Quantum computing's first big breakthrough could be to revolutionise the way chemists develop reactions needed to make new materials
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Crystal mountains speak of moon's molten past
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-11 23:38)
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They may not sparkle like Superman's Fortress of Solitude, but giant outcrops of pristine crystal have been found on our nearest neighbour
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Doing battle with the red devils of the Pacific
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-11 22:39)
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New Scientist joins a research ship tagging Humboldt squid? diablos rojos to Mexican fishermen? which are invading the waters off central California
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At the edge of thought
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-11 19:00)
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Over on the Edge website, intellectuals debate the internet's impact on the nature of human thought
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Could popping a pill stop you hitting the bottle?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-1-11 18:00)
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Convention says you shouldn't treat alcohol addiction with drugs? but alcoholism's "Prozac moment" is on the way
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