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Gloomy octopus is 'moody' octopus (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-12-2010 at 07:01:19
| The world's brainiest invertebrates can be tricked by HD images, so we can study their personalities and behaviourimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97a036c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Gloomy+octopus+is+%27moody%27+octopuslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18640-gloomy-octopus-is-moody-octopus.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Gloomy+octopus+is+%27moody%27+octopuslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18640-gloomy-octopus-is-moody-octopus.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750309477/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158991212/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750309477/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158991212/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
England has failed with dangerous, disturbed offenders (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-12-2010 at 07:01:19
| That's the message of a review of a pioneering programme run over the past decade in two jails and two secure mental hospitalsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97a2b08/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=England+has+failed+with+dangerous%2C+disturbed+offenderslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527513.000-england-has-failed-with-dangerous-disturbed-offenders.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=England+has+failed+with+dangerous%2C+disturbed+offenderslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527513.000-england-has-failed-with-dangerous-disturbed-offenders.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750194924/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/159001352/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750194924/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/159001352/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Digital Economy Bill is disaster for digital economy (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-12-2010 at 06:00:53
| The proposed new laws would result in the innocent being punished for offences that have not even taken place, says Jim Killockimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97984c7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Digital+Economy+Bill+is+disaster+for+digital+economylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fdigital-economy-bill-is-disast.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Digital+Economy+Bill+is+disaster+for+digital+economylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fdigital-economy-bill-is-disast.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750305072/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158958791/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750305072/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158958791/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Electric cars jostle for position on the power grid (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-12-2010 at 06:00:53
| When the surge of plug-in vehicles hits the streets over the next few years, how will our electricity grids cope?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9798a09/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Electric+cars+jostle+for+position+on+the+power+gridlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.700-electric-cars-jostle-for-position-on-the-power-grid.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Electric+cars+jostle+for+position+on+the+power+gridlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.700-electric-cars-jostle-for-position-on-the-power-grid.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750305748/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158960137/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750305748/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158960137/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Complete genomics finds its first diseases (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 01:00:51
| Whole-genome sequencing has found its first disease-causing mutations #8211; but will it illuminate our genetic "dark matter", asks Ewen Callawayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9773936/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Complete+genomics+finds+its+first+diseaseslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-thousand-dollar-genome-may.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Complete+genomics+finds+its+first+diseaseslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-thousand-dollar-genome-may.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750056943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158808374/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750056943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158808374/kg/63/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Today on New Scientist: 11 March 2010 (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 01:00:51
| All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how the climate science battle spread to US classrooms, the world's oldest rivers, and an upgraded robot toddlerimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9774d0d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+11+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-11-marc.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+11+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-11-marc.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750286008/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158813453/kg/42/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750286008/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158813453/kg/42/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 01:00:51
| We'd better make sure that we send a big enough bomb to stop an incoming asteroid ? if we don't, the space rock could reassembleimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97751a2/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=%27Terminator%27+asteroids+could+re-form+after+nukelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527514.700-terminator-asteroids-could-reform-after-nuke.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=%27Terminator%27+asteroids+could+re-form+after+nukelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527514.700-terminator-asteroids-could-reform-after-nuke.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750286817/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158814626/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750286817/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158814626/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Shoddy construction beats precision in quantum world (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 01:00:51
| Instead of striving to eliminate imperfection physicists would do better to inject a bit of randomness into their quantum devicesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97742fa/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Shoddy+construction+beats+precision+in+quantum+worldlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18638-shoddy-construction-beats-precision-in-quantum-world.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Shoddy+construction+beats+precision+in+quantum+worldlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18638-shoddy-construction-beats-precision-in-quantum-world.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750058473/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158810874/kg/31/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750058473/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158810874/kg/31/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Natural history museums - a photographer's playground (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 12:00:50
| What is it about the museums that seems to draw art photographers to them? bNew Scientist/b asked three to explain why in an online gallery of their workimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/976a83f/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Natural+history+museums+-+a+photographer%27s+playgroundlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fgallery%2Fmuseum-photography%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Natural+history+museums+-+a+photographer%27s+playgroundlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fgallery%2Fmuseum-photography%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750167448/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158771263/kg/63-68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750167448/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158771263/kg/63-68/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
World's oldest rivers mapped under huge desert dunes (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 12:00:50
| Ancient waterways buried beneath Australia's Simpson desert have been traced ndash; even though massive dunes make remote sensing impossibleimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/976e956/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=World%27s+oldest+rivers+mapped+under+huge+desert+duneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18636-worlds-oldest-rivers-mapped-under-huge-desert-dunes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=World%27s+oldest+rivers+mapped+under+huge+desert+duneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18636-worlds-oldest-rivers-mapped-under-huge-desert-dunes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750167449/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158787926/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750167449/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158787926/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
The green revolution sweeps into the bathroom (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 12:00:50
| The humble toilet is set for a techno upgrade that could reduce pollution and save water, says Helen Knightimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9770c9c/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+green+revolution+sweeps+into+the+bathroomlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-green-revolution-sweeps-in.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+green+revolution+sweeps+into+the+bathroomlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-green-revolution-sweeps-in.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750283444/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158796956/kg/43/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750283444/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158796956/kg/43/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Your partner has herpes - now the good news (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 12:00:50
| The genes that allow herpes virus to evade our immune system have been identified and deleted to form a new vaccineimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9772909/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Your+partner+has+herpes+-+now+the+good+newslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18637-your-partner-has-herpes--now-the-good-news.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Your+partner+has+herpes+-+now+the+good+newslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18637-your-partner-has-herpes--now-the-good-news.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750169573/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158804233/kg/65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750169573/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158804233/kg/65/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Complete genomics flags its first disease triggers (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 12:00:50
| Whole-genome sequencing has found its first disease-causing mutations #8211; but will it illuminate our genetic "dark matter", asks Ewen Callawayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9773936/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Complete+genomics+flags+its+first+disease+triggerslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-thousand-dollar-genome-may.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Complete+genomics+flags+its+first+disease+triggerslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fthe-thousand-dollar-genome-may.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750056943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158808374/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750056943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158808374/kg/63/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Battle over climate science spreads to US schoolrooms (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 10:00:51
| In three states, alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming must be taught ? and there seem to be links to efforts to teach creationismimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/976849f/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Battle+over+climate+science+spreads+to+US+schoolroomslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527514.100-battle-over-climate-science-spreads-to-us-schoolrooms.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Battle+over+climate+science+spreads+to+US+schoolroomslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527514.100-battle-over-climate-science-spreads-to-us-schoolrooms.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750050622/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158762143/kg/20-42-68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750050622/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158762143/kg/20-42-68/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Robot toddler gets an upgrade (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 10:00:51
| See the springier legs and more sensitive hands developed for a toddler-sized robot that will test theories about how flesh-and-blood children learnimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/976849d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Robot+toddler+gets+an+upgradelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18634-robot-toddler-gets-an-upgrade.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Robot+toddler+gets+an+upgradelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18634-robot-toddler-gets-an-upgrade.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750050623/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158762141/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750050623/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158762141/kg/45/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Innovation: Sending botnets the way of smallpox (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 08:00:54
| Could forcing computer owners to keep their machines up to date with the latest security software help stop cybercrime in its tracks?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/975eb5f/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%3A+Sending+botnets+the+way+of+smallpoxlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18635-innovation-sending-botnets-the-way-of-smallpox.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Innovation%3A+Sending+botnets+the+way+of+smallpoxlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18635-innovation-sending-botnets-the-way-of-smallpox.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750274951/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158722911/kg/40-45-63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750274951/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158722911/kg/40-45-63/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
The blessing and curse of choice (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 08:00:54
| Choosing is important to us, but also disquieting #8211; The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar ranges far and wide to help you do it betterimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/975ef64/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+blessing+and+curse+of+choicelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fcant-decide.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+blessing+and+curse+of+choicelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fcant-decide.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750275555/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158723940/kg/45-63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750275555/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158723940/kg/45-63/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Extreme physics at the ends of the Earth (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 06:00:52
| Anil Ananthaswamy visits some of the bleakest locations on Earth to explore the most tantalising mysteries of the cosmos in The Edge of Physicsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9753e22/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Extreme+physics+at+the+ends+of+the+Earthlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fextreme-physics-and-the-ends-of-the-earth.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Extreme+physics+at+the+ends+of+the+Earthlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fextreme-physics-and-the-ends-of-the-earth.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750155286/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158678562/kg/65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750155286/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158678562/kg/65/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Video: Extreme physics (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 06:00:52
| Check out video of Anil Ananthaswamy's journeys to some of the world's most extreme locales where physics experiments are under wayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9753e21/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Video%3A+Extreme+physicslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fvideo-extreme-physics.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Video%3A+Extreme+physicslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F03%2Fvideo-extreme-physics.php%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750155287/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158678561/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750155287/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158678561/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Mom and dad, stop stifling me - it's damaging my brain (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-11-2010 at 06:00:51
| Overprotective parents don't just limit their children's freedom ndash; they may also slow brain growth in an area linked to mental illnessimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9757ca0/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Mom+and+dad%2C+stop+stifling+me+-+it%27s+damaging+my+brainlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18633-mom-and-dad-stop-stifling-me--its-damaging-my-brain.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Mom+and+dad%2C+stop+stifling+me+-+it%27s+damaging+my+brainlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18633-mom-and-dad-stop-stifling-me--its-damaging-my-brain.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750156943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158694560/kg/45-63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750156943/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158694560/kg/45-63/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Science funding: less hot air and more specifics (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-10-2010 at 03:00:50
| At the third science debate between the three main British political parties, it was unclear how secure the science budget will be after the upcoming general electionimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9733bcd/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+funding%3A+less+hot+air+and+more+specificslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fscience-funding-less-hot-air-a.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Science+funding%3A+less+hot+air+and+more+specificslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fscience-funding-less-hot-air-a.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750253722/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158546893/kg/43-63-68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750253722/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158546893/kg/43-63-68/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Today on New Scientist: 10 March 2010 (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-10-2010 at 12:00:50
| All today's stories from newscientist.com at a glance, including: the (accidental) origin of species, why food kills but flab protects, and why women with good genes might get more seximg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/972da05/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+10+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-10-marc.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+10+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-10-marc.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023572/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521861/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023572/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521861/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Turning tables on prostate cancer's drug resistance (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-10-2010 at 12:00:49
| Prostate cancer drugs trigger the release of a molecule that makes tumours grow ? the discovery could lead to a way to keep the cancer at bayimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/972da06/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Turning+tables+on+prostate+cancer%27s+drug+resistancelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.100-turning-tables-on-prostate-cancers-drug-resistance.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Turning+tables+on+prostate+cancer%27s+drug+resistancelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.100-turning-tables-on-prostate-cancers-drug-resistance.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023573/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521862/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023573/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521862/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-10-2010 at 12:00:49
| The mathematician and self-proclaimed incurable optimist talks about his cameo in an Oscar-nominated movie and why he has no time for string theoryimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/972da07/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Roger+Penrose%3A+Non-stop+cosmos%2C+non-stop+careerlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527511.300-roger-penrose-nonstop-cosmos-nonstop-career.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Roger+Penrose%3A+Non-stop+cosmos%2C+non-stop+careerlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527511.300-roger-penrose-nonstop-cosmos-nonstop-career.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023574/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521863/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023574/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521863/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
Obesity: Food kills, flab protects (View Original Story)
Source: newscientist.com Posted: 03-10-2010 at 12:00:49
| Disease and obesity go hand in hand, but an increase in body fat may actually be part of our body's attempts to protect itself from the effects of unhealthy eatingimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/972da08/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Obesity%3A+Food+kills%2C+flab+protectslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527513.700-obesity-food-kills-flab-protects.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Obesity%3A+Food+kills%2C+flab+protectslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527513.700-obesity-food-kills-flab-protects.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023575/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521864/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750023575/u/53/f/10897/c/749/s/158521864/a2.img" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5"//a |
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