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Swine flu: Can science save us from the second wave?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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The flu outbreak may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths than feared, but health officials now fear that a more virulent version will return to kill millionsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e5c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Swine flu: Can science save us from the second wave?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227073.500-swine-flu-can-science-save-us-from-the-second-wave.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=Swine flu: Can science save us from the second wave?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227073.500-swine-flu-can-science-save-us-from-the-second-wave.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedspor ...
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Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island human
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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iHomo floresiensis/i, aka the hobbit, could be an ape-footed offshoot ofiHomo erectus/i, or much older, according to two new studiesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e5f/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island humanlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17081-bigfoot-hobbit-could-be-ancient-island-human.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=Bigfoot hobbit could be ancient island humanlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17081-bigfoot-hobbit-could-be-ancient-island-human.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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Hunting the mysterious monopole
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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Imagine a magnet with a north pole, but no south pole. It sounds bizarre, but theory predicts that monopole particles should existndash; and now we may have found themimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e61/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hunting the mysterious monopolelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227071.100-hunting-the-mysterious-monopole.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=Hunting the mysterious monopolelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227071.100-hunting-the-mysterious-monopole.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.fe ...
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Five futurist visionaries and what they got right
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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Many imagine what the future might hold for the human race, but few have thought so sharply about it, or tried to make their vision come trueimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e64/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Five futurist visionaries and what they got rightlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17082-five-futurist-visionaries-and-what-they-got-right.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=Five futurist visionaries and what they got rightlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17082-five-futurist-visionaries-and-what-they-got-right.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/tab ...
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Ray Kurzweil: A singular view of the future
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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For one futurist, being human with limited intelligence and doomed biology was never enough. So he came up with the idea of merging man and machine foreverndash; but will any of us live to see it?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e66/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Ray Kurzweil: A singular view of the futurelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227076.200" 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=Ray Kurzweil: A singular view of the futurelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227076.200" 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/38124826415/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/68693606/a2.htm"img src="http://d ...
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Ask Alpha: Quizzing the world's first answer engine
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 2:00)
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Stuffed with facts and figures on just about everything, this revolutionary search engine is designed to answer complex queries posed in ordinary languageimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4182e6b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Ask Alpha: Quizzing the world's first answer enginelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227075.600-ask-alpha-quizzing-the-worlds-first-answer-engine.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=Ask Alpha: Quizzing the world's first answer enginelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227075.600-ask-alpha-quizzing-the-worlds-first-answer-engine.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmar ...
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The man who revealed the secrets of sweat
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-7 0:05)
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Edward Adolph marched men around the scorching heat without water until they droppedndash; his discoveries made it possible to run marathons in the desertimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/417d3c0/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 man who revealed the secrets of sweatlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227061.500" 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 man who revealed the secrets of sweatlink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227061.500" 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/38124824009/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/68670400/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/38124824009/u/0/f/10897/c/ ...
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Farmers' crops keeping US cool
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-6 21:44)
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While cities create a warm bubble known as the urban heat island, most farms have an opposite effect and are counteracting climate change in the US, say researchersimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4150fcc/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Farmers' crops keeping US coollink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17079" 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=Farmers' crops keeping US coollink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17079" 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/38124701469/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/68489164/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/38124701469/u/0/f/10897/c/749/s/68489164/a2.img" bor ...
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Unknown web: Is the net hurting the environment?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-6 19:34)
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Sending an email across the Atlantic Ocean does not burn any jet fuel, but the internet is not without its own, huge carbon footprintimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/416cca3/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Unknown web: Is the net hurting the environment?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.600" 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=Unknown web: Is the net hurting the environment?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.600" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div
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Science and art: Still two cultures divided?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-6 18:11)
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In his 1959 essay, the novelist C. P. Snow argued that science and the humanities were dangerously divided? but is it still true in 2009?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/41675e0/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Science and art: Still two cultures divided?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227066.700-science-and-art-still-two-cultures-divided.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=Science and art: Still two cultures divided?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227066.700-science-and-art-still-two-cultures-divided.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 ...
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