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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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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