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Today on New Scientist: 28 January 2011
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: stretchy DNA, Egypt's internet disconnected, a scanner for two brains, and fish on antidepressants
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Friday illusion: Help solve a shape-shifting mystery
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:50)
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Here's a mind-boggling visual illusion to kick off our new series - but can you explain how it works?
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Challenger disaster: NASA's rude awakening
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:43)
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On 28 January 1986, space shuttle Challenger disintegrated just after lift-off– despite promises that the shuttles would be safer than previous craft
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Emotion 2.0
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:22)
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The word robot originally meant "forced labourer". But 90 years after the word was first used, robots could become a very different kind of companion
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Do you speak the language of love?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:15)
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A set of new studies predict your relationship's health from your writing style - and suggest marriage is good for your physical or mental well-being
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Nabokov was right about butterflies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:07)
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The author of Lolita was a fine butterfly taxonomist too– a new DNA analysis confirms what Nabokov termed his "drastic" reassessment of a major group
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First HDR video system shows all the light and shade
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 2:02)
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Glaring, overlit faces and blacked-out night-time backgrounds could be thing of the past thanks to the world's first high-dynamic-range video system
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Beetle pest may encourage nesting turtles to move
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 1:45)
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La Escobilla beach in Mexico is one of the world's largest sea turtle nesting sites? but troublesome beetles could force the turtles to move
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Stretchy DNA shows off its elastic qualities
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 1:30)
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The discovery could help to develop anti-cancer drugs, and also points to a more prosaic role as a reference for measuring the tiniest of forces
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Feedback: The dusky nightjar sings jazz
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-1-29 1:27)
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Eagles songs in a metal style, where to buy a dead rabbit with a side order of uranium, accidental sex changes, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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