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Today on New Scientist: 3 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 3:00)
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Today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: why water is the strangest liquid, how green plants rely on quantum mechanics, and the evidence against natural selection
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Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 3:00)
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Darwin was only half-right about evolution: evidence against natural selection is mounting up, argue Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
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Bill Gates digs deep for geoengineering
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 3:00)
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The world's richest man has committed $4.5 million of his own money to funding a number of climate scientists interested in geoengineering
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Nature's hot green quantum computers revealed
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 3:00)
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The evidence is growing that quantum processes play a crucial role in photosynthesis, even at room temperature
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The strangest liquid: Why water is so weird
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 3:00)
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No other liquid behaves quite as oddly, but a controversial new theory may finally have wrung out water's secrets
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'Imaginary rabbit' breaks out of the body
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-4 2:22)
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A classic tactile illusion can spread to objects outside the body, suggesting our brain's body map is more malleable than once thought
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Iran launches animals into orbit
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 23:15)
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Iran has launched living organisms to low-Earth orbit - the aim is to to conduct scientific experiments, the nation claims
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Email accounts at risk from not-so-secret questions
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 21:40)
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Census data could help malicious software guess 1 in 80 "secret" answers, odds tempting enough for hackers to automate attacks on webmail services
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Zoologger: 'Living beach ball' is giant single cell
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 20:56)
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A single-celled giant of the seabed, the monstrous Syringammina forms a massive, complex network of tubes that may enslave bacteria
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Cars learn to keep an eye on the weather
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-3 19:00)
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In-car systems that monitor weather and road conditions could slash the number of road accidents
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