Are new cracks appearing in China's great firewall?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 0:41)
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Changes to the country's censorship tools may be allowing users in China to glimpse previously blocked web pages
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The climate-change nightmares of military strategists
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-9 0:30)
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Nuclear war, millions dead, Europe collapsed: Gwynne Dyer's mechanistic predictions of the coming decades makes Climate Wars terrifying but improbable
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Giant mimivirus does its replication in-house
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 23:34)
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Analysis of the monster's genome shows that it builds its own virus factory, supporting the idea that giant viruses shaped all animal and plant cells
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Avatars can't hide your lying eyes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 21:05)
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Eye-tracking systems could make virtual relationships more realistic by improving people's ability to spot when an avatar is telling them the truth
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The myth of the mid-life crisis
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 19:41)
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From empty nests to slow wits, there's little evidence for the stereotypes of middle age, says Barbara Strauch in The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain
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The shock of the old: Welcome to the elderly age
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 18:24)
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No one expected it to happen so quickly, and certainly not everywhere? but Homo sapiens is ageing fast. This is no bad thing, argues Fred Pearce
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Time waits for no quasar? even though it should
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 9:00)
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Events should appear to unfold more slowly in faraway objects, according to big bang theory? curiously, they do not seem to in distant galaxies
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Is that paradise beckoning, or just CO2 in your blood?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 8:01)
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People who have near-death experiences during heart attacks tend to have higher levels of the molecule coursing through their veins
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Today on New Scientist: 7 April 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the deep law that shapes our reality, how to fix the brain's circuit board, and the mud creature that lives without oxygen
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Japanese gut bacteria gain special powers from sushi
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-8 2:00)
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A seaweed-eating enzyme seems to have jumped from marine bacteria to the harmless bugs that call the intestines of sushi-eaters home
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