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Did Saddam Hussein model himself on Darth Vader?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-25 21:00)
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Saddam had more than a little fascination with Darth Vader helmets, sci-fi fantasy and lightsabres, finds Jessica Griggs
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Ten days to save hearing after deafening sound
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-25 20:54)
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A shot of gene therapy was enough to restore dying hair cells in guinea pigs? if administered soon enough after the damage
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Wireless speed freaks set to leave Wi-Fi standing
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-25 20:25)
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Can Wi-Fi rise to the challenge of super-fast, high-definition downloads or are its days as the "killer app" of connectivity numbered?
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Embattled NASA chief vows to outline path to Mars
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-25 10:08)
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At his first congressional hearing on NASA's new direction, agency chief Charles Bolden promised to develop a detailed plan to get astronauts to Mars
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Newborns' blood used to build secret DNA database
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-25 4:00)
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Texas state health officials secretly gave hundreds of babies' blood samples to the federal government to build a DNA database, reports Ewen Callaway
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Monster crocodile was ancient human nightmare
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 23:29)
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Our ancestors would have been no more than a snack for a newly identified man-eating croc
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Jane Goodall: 'There is no problem in having empathy'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 22:08)
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Fifty years after she began studying chimps, the conservationist explains why emotional involvement helped her understand them? and could save them
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Mouse grows human liver
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 22:00)
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It acts like a human one and could be used to study malaria, hepatitis and cirrhosis
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Requiem for a green, wooded land despoiled by mining
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 22:00)
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Reckoning at Eagle Creek, a family memoir by Jeff Biggers, shows how Illinois coal mining has consigned landscape and lives to the spoil heap
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Zoologger: Fireproofing tips from the great bowerbird
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 20:56)
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They might look like a cheap garden decoration, but the twig structures that the birds build for courtship are surprisingly resilient to bush fires
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