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Virtual reality: It's time for garage inventors again   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:00:00
Palmer Luckey, the man driving the renaissance of virtual reality, started out with only his passion    
Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:30:00
Groundwater influx is adding to the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water that the Japanese nuclear power plant needs to dispose of (full text available to subscribers)    
The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:00:00
Evolutionary biology could help us outmanoeuvre the enormous genetic variation found within each tumour    
Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:00:00
A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter    
Dreams on demand: Virtual reality finally delivers   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:53:25
Virtual reality is rising from the dead thanks to a start-up with global ambitions and crowdfunded technology to back them. Pleased to meet you, Oculus Rift    
Today on New Scientist   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:00:00
All the latest on newscientist.com: nature that isn't real still heals, Google's Project Loon, tumours' Achilles' heel, and more    
Rapid evolution of tumours may be their Achilles' heel   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:00:00
One man's sacrifice has revealed how his cancer mutated from its emergence to its last lethal change, opening the door to a Darwinian approach to therapy (full text available to subscribers)    
Naked mole rats reveal why they are immune to cancer   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:00:00
Heavy "gloop" that allows mole rats to slip through tight spaces may also protect them from cancer    
The fake outdoors: Nature that isn't real still heals   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:00:00
Can virtual reality mimic nature's restorative properties? It seems that simulated green spaces can have surprising health benefits (full text available to subscribers)    
Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:45:00
Extreme weather called for extreme remedies to staunch the flow of the river Elbe in Germany on Sunday    
Farmed fish overtakes farmed beef for first time   Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:00:00
For the first time in modern history, the world has been producing more farmed fish than farmed beef. It's not good news for the environment    
Google's Project Loon to float the internet on balloons   Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:39:00
Google admits its new balloon-based connectivity project is a "moonshot" to bring the last two-thirds of the global population online. How realistic is the audacious plan?    
Today on New Scientist   Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:00:00
All the latest on newscientist.com: living without oxygen, writing the body, how the Med is killing the Atlantic, Lego Curiosity, slimy computers, and more    
China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017   Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:50:00
After suffering the worst smog on record earlier this year, China has decided to cut the emission of air pollutants by 30 per cent in five years    
New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown   Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:29:00
Eight people have been selected as the first US astronauts since Apollo to be trained for deep space, but will they visit an asteroid or Mars?    
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