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Venom is key to Komodo dragon's killing power
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-19 6:00)
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The discovery of poison glands in the large predatory lizards makes them the biggest venomous animals on the planetimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/438dd7a/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Venom is key to Komodo dragon's killing powerlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17156-venom-is-key-to-komodo-dragons-killing-power.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Venom is key to Komodo dragon's killing powerlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17156-venom-is-key-to-komodo-dragons-killing-power.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.co ...
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Taunted mockingbirds can tell human friend from foe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-19 6:00)
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Northern mockingbirds recognise and attack people who disturb their nests after only two brief encountersndash; but they leave other passers-by aloneimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/438dd7b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Taunted mockingbirds can tell human friend from foelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17154-taunted-mockingbirds-can-tell-human-friend-from-foe.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Taunted mockingbirds can tell human friend from foelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17154-taunted-mockingbirds-can-tell-human-friend-from-foe.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border=" ...
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Flat universe may be the new flat Earth
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-19 1:48)
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Today we dismiss flat-Earthers as ignorant, yet we may be making an almost identical mistake about the entire universeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4384f03/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Flat universe may be the new flat Earthlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.500-flat-universe-may-be-the-new-flat-earth.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Flat universe may be the new flat Earthlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.500-flat-universe-may-be-the-new-flat-earth.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/3 ...
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Spacewalks partially restore Hubble vision
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-19 0:57)
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A long-dormant spectrograph seems to be functioning once more, but a workhorse camera that has taken some of the telescope's most iconic images is only partially repairedimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/43829a2/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Spacewalks partially restore Hubble visionlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17155-spacewalks-partially-restore-hubble-vision.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Spacewalks partially restore Hubble visionlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17155-spacewalks-partially-restore-hubble-vision.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/ta ...
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Ultrasound weapon wipes out toxic algal blooms
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 22:39)
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Red tides and other poisonous algal blooms are vulnerable to a blast of high-frequency sound, researchers showimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/437a570/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Ultrasound weapon wipes out toxic algal bloomslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227086.000-ultrasound-weapon-wipes-out-toxic-algal-blooms.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Ultrasound weapon wipes out toxic algal bloomslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227086.000-ultrasound-weapon-wipes-out-toxic-algal-blooms.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da ...
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Nine games computers are ruining for humanity
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 20:30)
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Computers can now kick human rear at a wide range of games, from chess to rock-paper-scissors.iNew Scientist/i, for one, welcomes our new game-playing computer overlordsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/437185e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Nine games computers are ruining for humanitylink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17145-nine-games-computers-are-ruining-for-humanity.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Nine games computers are ruining for humanitylink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17145-nine-games-computers-are-ruining-for-humanity.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" / ...
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The art of science: Cement flowers and quantum cascades
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 20:08)
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Move over,a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227066.700" target="ns"C. P. Snow/a: Princeton University'sa href="http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/" target="ns"Art of Science/acompetition takes as its starting pointa href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16522275.500" target="ns"Leonardo da Vinci/a's embracing maxim: study the science of art and the art of scienceimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/436f83e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The art of science: Cement flowers and quantum cascadeslink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17138-art-of-science" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The art of science: Cement flowers and quantum cascadeslink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/d ...
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Oil road turns tribes into meat traders
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 19:11)
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A new road and free bus rides for Amazonian tribes have created a bushmeat trade that previously did not exist, say conservationistsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/436be51/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Oil road turns tribes into meat traderslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17152-oil-road-turns-tribes-into-meat-traders.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Oil road turns tribes into meat traderslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17152-oil-road-turns-tribes-into-meat-traders.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/3 ...
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Incestuous moths scrimp on sperm
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 18:22)
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Moths don't mind incest, but only when it doesn't cost them valuable resourcesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4369895/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Incestuous moths scrimp on spermlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.900-incestuous-moths-scrimp-on-sperm.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Incestuous moths scrimp on spermlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227084.900-incestuous-moths-scrimp-on-sperm.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/39771708478/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/70686869/a2.htm"img src="http://da.fe ...
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Quantum poker: Are the chips down or not?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-18 18:18)
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When quantum computers replace today's PCs, online poker players will have to master outlandish new strategies? such as betting and folding simultaneouslyimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4369896/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Quantum poker: Are the chips down or not?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.300-quantum-poker-are-the-chips-down-or-not.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Quantum poker: Are the chips down or not?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.300-quantum-poker-are-the-chips-down-or-not.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/ ...
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