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Large brains bust baggage allowance for migratory bats
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 1:18)
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Migratory bats have smaller brains than their stay-at-home cousins, suggesting they cannot afford the luxury of lugging a large brain on long journeys
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Best of the Ig Nobel prizes 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 1:03)
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A $10 trillion prize, reversed-order footwear, video too explicit to show and words too foul to print all featured in this year's Ig Nobel awards
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Tuskegee 2: How the US gave syphilis to Guatemalans
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 0:46)
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US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has apologised for a 1940s study that deliberately infected Guatemalans with syphilis
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China's Chang'e 2 blasts towards moon
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 0:26)
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Night launch for the next step in China's robotic lunar programme, which ultimately aims to bring samples from the moon to Earth
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Cosmic accidents: One giant leap for a single cell
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 0:26)
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A freak event created the ancestor of all multicellular life on Earth. Without this unconventional genesis, we might never have become more than bacteria
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Work light twice as hard to make cheap solar cells
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-1 23:25)
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The most energetic photons hitting a solar cell pack enough of a punch to free up two electrons, rather than the usual one, and generate more current
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Sound can leap across a vacuum after all
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-1 22:03)
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Sound waves are carried by vibrating particles, so how could the waves pass through a vacuum devoid of atoms? The key lies in crystals
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Social sensitivity trumps IQ in group intelligence
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-1 21:19)
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If you want to build a smart team, recruit people who are socially sensitive– and women– rather than chasing down intellectual stars
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Ditch the glasses for lifelike 3D
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-1 20:48)
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The race is on to find ways to display 3D images without clunky glasses? and gamers will get in first
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Hawaii will face more frequent cyclones
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-1 20:42)
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As the global climate warms, tropical cyclones will move from south-east Asia towards the centre of the Pacific
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