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| Feedback: How to unwind your DNA Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:00:00 |
| Paying for open-access, impersonating websites, gravity-defying beds, and more (full text available to subscribers) |
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| Bradley Manning and "hacker madness" scare tactic Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:55:00 |
| Technophobia may have played a role in the conviction of Bradley Manning for handing information to WikiLeaks, says an internet law specialist |
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| Online gamers harnessed to help disaster response Fri, 02 Aug 2013 09:00:00 |
| Adding quests to tag damage in a virtual recreation of a stricken city means online gamers could help in the aftermath of a disaster – without leaving a game |
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| Science in a photo: New Scientist Eureka prize winners Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:01:00 |
| A charred elephant carcass and an egg-carrying sea dragon are among the top entries in this year's photography competition sponsored by New Scientist |
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| Climate change may make civil wars much more common Thu, 01 Aug 2013 18:00:00 |
| The world could soon be a more violent place, according to research that pools existing studies on climate and conflict, but its conclusion is contentious |
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| Today on New Scientist Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:52:00 |
| All the latest on newscientist.com: Tour a mini-world under glass, how your cellphone can be traced, and more... |
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| Coral mappers reach Caribbean waters Thu, 01 Aug 2013 17:25:00 |
| The Catlin Seaview Survey plans to map all the world's reefs. With the Great Barrier Reef done, the team is now heading to the more damaged Caribbean |
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| Food stamps could help US trim obesity epidemic Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:53:00 |
| The US's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program feeds nearly 48 million people, but may soon suffer deep cuts. Will a big research opportunity be missed? |
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| Asteroid pinpointed as likely source of Russian meteor Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:16:00 |
| The parent of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which exploded over Russia earlier this year, may have been a known rock cluster that could pose a future threat |
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| What are the options for right-to-die campaigners? Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:11:00 |
| This week, two severely paralysed men received the verdicts in their right-to-die cases at the UK's Court of Appeal. New Scientist unpicks the issues |
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| Super-supernovae spell trouble for dark energy Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:00:00 |
| Some obscenely bright stellar explosions are undermining our attempts to work out why the universe is accelerating (full text available to subscribers) |
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| Any cellphone can be traced by its digital fingerprint Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:15:00 |
| Slight differences in cellphone components give every handset an unalterable secret signature – that offers a simple way to track them |
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| Giant clouds of lead glimpsed on distant dwarf stars Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:05:00 |
| A lead balloon is a metaphor for something unpopular, but giant clouds of the heavy metal are helping to boost a theory of star evolution |
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| Earth in miniature: Tour a mini-world under glass Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:23:58 |
| Back in the 1980s, Biosphere 2 was created in Arizona as a trial Mars colony and to study several of Earth's ecosystems. Visit the site on our virtual tour |
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| After tweeted rape threats, Twitter promises change Wed, 31 Jul 2013 21:16:00 |
| The company faces a public outcry and demands for better policing of bad behaviour online, after a British member of parliament was repeatedly threatened |
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