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The secret of long life is up in the trees
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 4:00)
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Tree-dwelling mammals live nearly twice as long as their earth-bound cousins, confirming a long-standing prediction of the biology of ageing
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Today on New Scientist: 22 February 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 3:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: how bugs could help us build sustainable cities, the quest to wipe out HIV for good, and an unexpected use for latex
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Latex could silence noisy neighbours
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 2:30)
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Thumping bass sounds are notoriously difficult to block, but they're no match for soundproofing panels just 15?millimetres thick
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Back to the drawing board with missile-beating laser
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 2:19)
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The Airborne Laser recently blasted two missiles out of the sky, but the Pentagon is starting again from scratch to make a practical aerial weapon
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John Adams: The robots' book club
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 2:00)
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The literary critic has been feeding literature to a computer program to see if machines could ever read between the lines
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How long till we wipe out HIV for good?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-23 1:00)
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A proposal that could see HIV eradicated using nothing but existing drugs is finally being taken seriously, say Celeste Biever and Andy Coghlan
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Atul Gawande: 'Lists have saved patients and saved me'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-22 23:56)
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The surgeon who wrote The Checklist Manifesto tells us why lists save us on planes, in the operating theatre and in daily life
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Messages from the Stone Age
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-22 23:55)
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Our ancestors seem to have had a regular system of 26 symbols, which may have been the origins of written language? find out more in our gallery
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Killer ants with taste for cat food attack toads
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-22 21:35)
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Cat food lures meat ants into places where they will attack large cane toads– a pesky invasive species, writes Wendy Zukerman
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Sun's warmth blows comet's icy heart apart
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-2-22 21:30)
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A comet that exploded with the energy of a small nuclear bomb in 2007 may have done so because of exotic ice at its heart
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