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Innovation: Looking forward to the smarter smartphone
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-13 1:37)
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The new smartphones released this week bring few truly novel features to the tablendash; take a look at the research projects that may pep up phone hardware in the futureimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4af074d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Innovation: Looking forward to the smarter smartphonelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17302-innovation-looking-forward-to-the-smarter-smartphone.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=Innovation: Looking forward to the smarter smartphonelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17302-innovation-looking-forward-to-the-smarter-smartphone.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/im ...
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Editor of journal targeted by hoaxers resigns
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-13 1:30)
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The revelation that a journal had apparently accepted a nonsensical computer-generated paper has led to the resignation of the publication's editor-in-chiefimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4af074c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Editor of journal targeted by hoaxers resignslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17303-editor-of-journal-targeted-by-hoaxers-resigns.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=Editor of journal targeted by hoaxers resignslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17303-editor-of-journal-targeted-by-hoaxers-resigns.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/tabl ...
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10 scientific objects that changed the world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-13 0:18)
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See ten historical scientific objects selected as the most significant ever? and vote to pick your favouriteimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4a1d555/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=10 scientific objects that changed the worldlink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17273-ten-most-historic-science-objects" 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=10 scientific objects that changed the worldlink=http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17273-ten-most-historic-science-objects" 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/42084890818/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/77714773/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/42084890818/ ...
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Why we still love Star Trek
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 23:08)
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The enduring popularity of the TV and film phenomenon has much to do with our yearning to live long and prosper, saysbLawrence Krauss/bimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4ae8b26/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Why we still love Star Treklink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.900" 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=Why we still love Star Treklink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.900" 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/42085057211/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/78547750/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/42085057211/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/78547750/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Why we still love Star Trek
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 23:08)
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The enduring popularity of the TV and film phenomenon has its roots in our hope for a better and more rational society, saysbLawrence Krauss/bimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4ae8b26/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Why we still love Star Treklink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.900-why-we-still-love-star-trek.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=Why we still love Star Treklink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.900-why-we-still-love-star-trek.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/42085057211/u/0/f/10897/c ...
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Male pond skaters forced to 'sing' for sex
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 22:33)
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By evolving a genital "shield", female pond skaters can stop males mating with them unless they tap out sufficiently impressive courtship rhythmsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4ae3a4e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Male pond skaters forced to 'sing' for sexlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17301-male-pond-skaters-forced-to-sing-for-sex.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=Male pond skaters forced to 'sing' for sexlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17301-male-pond-skaters-forced-to-sing-for-sex.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://d ...
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This week's top stories [12 June 2009]
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 22:00)
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pOur top articles ranked by reader popularity./pullia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/48b279b/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn172620Efreefloating0Eblack0Ehole0Emay0Esolve0Espace0Efirefly0Emystery0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Free-floating black hole may solve space 'firefly' mystery/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/48c6603/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A2271110B90A0A0Escience0Ereinvents0Ethe0Eeconomy0Enetwork0Esolutions0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Science reinvents the economy: Network solutions/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/48c22ba/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A2271140B70A0A0Eearths0Eclearest0Eskies0Erevealed0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Earth's clearest skies revealed/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4a51463/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn172870Efirst0Eextragalactic0Eexoplanet0Emay0Ehav ...
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Virtual war spills into real world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 21:39)
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A dispute between rival gaming services has downed large chunks of China's internet and caused slow web services for millions of peopleimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4addcb9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Virtual war spills into real worldlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.300-virtual-war-spills-into-real-world.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=Virtual war spills into real worldlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227126.300-virtual-war-spills-into-real-world.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/4208 ...
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Get a grip: Truth about fingerprints revealed
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 21:07)
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At last someone has tested the long-held notion that fingerprints increase grip and found it to be falseimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4adab46/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Get a grip: Truth about fingerprints revealedlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17300-get-a-grip-truth-about-fingerprints-revealed.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=Get a grip: Truth about fingerprints revealedlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17300-get-a-grip-truth-about-fingerprints-revealed.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/4208504 ...
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Unique roots let plant forage in the snow
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-6-12 20:41)
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Botanists have discovered a new form of root in a small Alpine plant species, which grows upwards into the snow to extract nutrientsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4ada450/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Unique roots let plant forage in the snowlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17299-unique-roots-let-plant-forage-in-the-snow.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=Unique roots let plant forage in the snowlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17299-unique-roots-let-plant-forage-in-the-snow.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 ...
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