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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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World's most sensitive neutrino experiment begins
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 3:57)
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A manmade neutrino has travelled through the bedrock of Japan to hit a detector at the Super-Kamiokande– the experiment could shed light on why the universe is full of matter
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Today on New Scientist: 25 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-26 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how wireless speed freaks could leave Wi-Fi standing, a disease gene blocker that sneaks past cells' defences, and the heyday of arsenic
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