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Words set to music, with a few notes missing
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 22:00)
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In The Music Instinct, Philip Ball has gone further than anyone in challenging the dictum that writing about music is like dancing about architecture
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Dirty tricks of the egg and sperm race
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 21:44)
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You might think the battle of the sexes is over once mating occurs? but it's just shifted to a new, microscopic arena
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How the Chilean quake shortened the day
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 21:11)
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The Chilean earthquake on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and shortened the day, says Rebecca Thomson
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There's no war to fight over global warming
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 21:05)
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How should beleaguered climate scientists advance their cause? They shouldn't, argues veteran meteorologist Alan Thorpe
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The mystery of the silent aliens
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 19:00)
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As SETI approaches its 50th anniversary, three books tackle the question of why we have not yet found evidence of alien intelligence
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Star and flower-shaped moulds tell stem cells what to be
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 16:00)
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The shape makes a cell become fat or bone, which could lead to new ways of coaxing stem cells into specific tissues for transplant into people
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Dino-eating snake killed in action
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 10:00)
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A snake had just slithered into a sauropod's nesting ground, looking for dinner, but a sudden landslide enveloped and killed all involved, as stunning fossils show
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Mars rover Spirit could rise again
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 9:39)
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NASA's declaration last month that the rover would henceforth be a stationary lander was "a little bit premature", says a rover scientist
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Women and children first? How long have you got?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 5:00)
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When the Titanic went down, many women, children and older people were saved– it was a different story in the much faster sinking of the Lusitania
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Massive Antarctic iceberg threatens ocean circulation
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-2 3:11)
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The loss of a huge tongue of ice off east Antarctica could affect local marine life and global ocean currents
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