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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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Drug laws are painful for cancer patients
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 20:46)
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Overzealous regulation of opioids is having a painful knock-on effect on eastern Europeans with cancer
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Visualization Challenge: Prizewinning pictures
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 20:10)
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Salt-munching microbes and ball-throwing nanobristles were among the prizewinners in this year's competition? see them in our gallery
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The injustice of Henrietta's immortality
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 19:00)
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Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is about the science and racism that led to a dead woman's cancer being used in labs worldwide
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Lapdogs are Middle Eastern
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 9:01)
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The gene that turned a wolf into a Yorkshire terrier originated in the region more than 12,000 years ago
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Today on New Scientist: 23 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the new weapons trained on blindness, how a lawsuit could shut down the LHC, and why we should stop funding homeopathy
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NASA sets sights on inflatable space stations
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 2:44)
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The agency reveals plans to develop advanced new technologies, including orbiting balloon-like habitats
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Six tricks that alien trackers could use
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-24 2:25)
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We could find evidence of interstellar engineering projects or other signs of alien intelligence? even if no one is deliberately trying to contact us
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