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Brain scan studies busted by statistics
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 23:10)
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The budding field of social neuroscience may be producing misleading results because of the statistical methods often used to analyse brain scansimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40f1675/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Brain scan studies busted by statisticslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.200-brain-scan-studies-busted-by-statistics.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Brain scan studies busted by statisticslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.200-brain-scan-studies-busted-by-statistics.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="ht ...
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Unknown internet 5: Is there only one internet?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 19:13)
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The internet is a disparate mix of interconnected computers, many of them on large networks run by universities, businesses and so on? so what unites them, if anything?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40ebd95/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Unknown internet 5: Is there only one internet?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.300-unknown-internet-5-is-there-only-one-internet.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unknown internet 5: Is there only one internet?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.300-unknown-internet-5-is-there-only-one-internet.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark. ...
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Chromosome clue to human miscarriage
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 18:56)
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Why do women have more miscarriages than females of other species? It may all be down to the number of chromosomesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40eb53e/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Chromosome clue to human miscarriagelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.100-chromosome-clue-to-human-miscarriage.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Chromosome clue to human miscarriagelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.100-chromosome-clue-to-human-miscarriage.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/38124446196/u/0/f ...
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Payments to doctors 'should be posted online'
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 17:00)
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So says a report addressing concerns that financial conflicts of interest are skewing medical practice and researchimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40e87aa/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Payments to doctors 'should be posted online'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.600-payments-to-doctors-should-be-posted-online.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Payments to doctors 'should be posted online'link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.600-payments-to-doctors-should-be-posted-online.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.fe ...
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Unknown internet 4: Did the credit crunch hit the web?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 5:40)
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Real-estate prices crashing, a big drop in growth, the threat of infrastructure collapse, and authorities printing more money to stave off disaster? and that's just the online worldimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40e1a00/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Unknown internet 4: Did the credit crunch hit the web?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.400-unknown-internet-4-did-the-credit-crunch-hit-the-web.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Unknown internet 4: Did the credit crunch hit the web?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.400-unknown-internet-4-did-the-credit-crunch-hit-the-web.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="ht ...
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Why tweeters should beware of worms
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-3 2:10)
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Microblogging service Twitter has holes in its security that make its users vulnerable to viruses, warns a leading computer security expertimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40deec6/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Why tweeters should beware of wormslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.700-why-tweeters-should-beware-of-worms.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Why tweeters should beware of wormslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.700-why-tweeters-should-beware-of-worms.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.co ...
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Climate sceptic backs carbon study
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-2 23:01)
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US senator James Inhofe, a prominent climate-change denier, is co-authoring legislation to study the harmful effects of soot in the atmosphereimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40dab9d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Climate sceptic backs carbon studylink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.400-climate-sceptic-backs-carbon-study.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Climate sceptic backs carbon studylink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227063.400-climate-sceptic-backs-carbon-study.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com ...
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Did asbestos help life evolve?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-2 20:25)
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Bacteria swap genes in the presence of an asbestos mineral and a good shake from an earthquake, suggesting that such conditions in early Earth aided evolutionimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40d7a21/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Did asbestos help life evolve?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.900-did-asbestos-help-life-evolve.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Did asbestos help life evolve?link=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.900-did-asbestos-help-life-evolve.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r ...
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Beating the science cheats
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-2 18:00)
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The case of the fraudster dubbed the "medical Madoff" shows that we need a new anti-corruption regime, says fraudbusterbEugenie Samuel Reich/bimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40d41ef/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Beating the science cheatslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227066.400-beating-the-science-cheats.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Beating the science cheatslink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227066.400-beating-the-science-cheats.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/38124393485/u/0/f/10897/c/749 ...
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Robotic wheelchair controlled by thought alone
from New Scientist - Online News
(2009-5-2 16:48)
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A wheelchair that responds to brain activity could give paralysed people the freedom to guide themselves unaided? even in a crowdimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/40d2770/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Robotic wheelchair controlled by thought alonelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Robotic wheelchair controlled by thought alonelink=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227065.900-robotic-wheelchair-controlled-by-thought-alone.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/b ...
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