- EU set to ban bluefin tuna trade
- Starling flock 'falls from sky'
- Ancient eggshell yields its DNA
- Zoologger: Mummy, can I have some more carrion soup?
- The luck of the Tasmanian devils is in their genes
- Harrabin's Notes
- Science 'is a key election issue'
- Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches
- World's largest meat-eating plant prefers to eat... small animal poo
- Women with good genes may have more sexual partners
- Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
- Galapagos tension
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EU set to ban bluefin tuna trade
Reports indicate that the EU has decided to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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Starling flock 'falls from sky'
Mystery surrounds the deaths of 75 starlings which fell from the sky on to the driveway of a Somerset house.
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Ancient eggshell yields its DNA
The eggshells of long-dead and extinct species are a particularly good source to find preserved DNA, researchers say.
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Zoologger: Mummy, can I have some more carrion soup?
Burying beetles have one of the more disgusting lifestyles known ndash; but hey, they are also terribly good parentsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/972750b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Zoologger%3A+Mummy%2C+can+I+have+some+more+carrion+soup%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18632-zoologger-mummy-can-i-have-some-more-carrion-soup.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Zoologger%3A+Mummy%2C+can+I+have+some+more+carrion+soup%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18632-zoologger-mummy-can-i-have-some-more-carrion-soup.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750133382/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158496011/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750133382/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158496011/a2.img" border="0"//a
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The luck of the Tasmanian devils is in their genes
The meat-eating marsupials are threatened by a deadly transmissible cancer – but the discovery of what makes some animals resistant could save themimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9727c37/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The+luck+of+the+Tasmanian+devils+is+in+their+geneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.300-the-luck-of-the-tasmanian-devils-is-in-their-genes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The+luck+of+the+Tasmanian+devils+is+in+their+geneslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527515.300-the-luck-of-the-tasmanian-devils-is-in-their-genes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750020029/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158497847/kg/43/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750020029/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158497847/kg/43/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Harrabin's Notes
Environmentalists and the EU lock horns over biofuels
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Science 'is a key election issue'
The science spokesmen of the three main political parties cross swords on the issue of UK research funding.
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Safety issues loom as humanoid invasion approaches
Robots are coming out of their industrial cages and into our lives, prompting engineers to search out new kinds of safety featuresimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/9712438/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Safety+issues+loom+as+humanoid+invasion+approacheslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18631-safety-issues-loom-as-humanoid-invasion-approaches.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Safety+issues+loom+as+humanoid+invasion+approacheslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18631-safety-issues-loom-as-humanoid-invasion-approaches.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750237313/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158409784/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750237313/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158409784/a2.img" border="0"//a
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World's largest meat-eating plant prefers to eat... small animal poo
The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo, scientists discover.
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Women with good genes may have more sexual partners
Female students with a genetically diverse immune system said they had sex with more people than their peers didimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/97005c7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Women+with+good+genes+may+have+more+sexual+partnerslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527504.800-women-with-good-genes-may-have-more-sexual-partners.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Women+with+good+genes+may+have+more+sexual+partnerslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20527504.800-women-with-good-genes-may-have-more-sexual-partners.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750228859/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158336455/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750228859/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158336455/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Ring may be giant 'impact crater'
Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, according to Italian scientists.
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Galapagos tension
Can all species live side by side in unique ecosystem?
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Obama criticised for lack of science reform
The Union of Concerned Scientists says the Obama administration is 'moving too slowly' to remove political interference from scienceimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f5f68/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Obama+criticised+for+lack+of+science+reformlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fobama-criticised-for-lack-of-s.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Obama+criticised+for+lack+of+science+reformlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fthesword%2F2010%2F03%2Fobama-criticised-for-lack-of-s.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750110344/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158293864/kg/43/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750110344/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158293864/kg/43/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Collider to shut for year to fix faults
The Large Hadron Collider must be shut down for a year starting in late 2011 to address design flaws, the BBC has learned.
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Extinct giant bird DNA recovered from fossil eggs
DNA from a 19,000-year-old emu eggshell has been isolated ndash; the first time such a feat has been pulled offimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f4d69/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Extinct+giant+bird+DNA+recovered+from+fossil+eggslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18628-extinct-giant-bird-dna-recovered-from-fossil-eggs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Extinct+giant+bird+DNA+recovered+from+fossil+eggslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18628-extinct-giant-bird-dna-recovered-from-fossil-eggs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750222273/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158289257/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750222273/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158289257/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Eyeless hydra sheds light on evolution of the eye
Molecules that help a jellyfish-like animal sense light suggest how similar compounds in the eyes of mammals could have evolvedimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f4d67/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Eyeless+hydra+sheds+light+on+evolution+of+the+eyelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18627-eyeless-hydra-sheds-light-on-evolution-of-the-eye.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Eyeless+hydra+sheds+light+on+evolution+of+the+eyelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18627-eyeless-hydra-sheds-light-on-evolution-of-the-eye.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750222272/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158289255/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750222272/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158289255/kg/45/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Apollo rocks dusted off to find new evidence of water
Forty years after the Apollo astronauts bounced across the moon, new studies are revealing water inside the samples they returned ndash; and showing how close they may have come to water-coated soilimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f59f6/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Apollo+rocks+dusted+off+to+find+new+evidence+of+waterlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18629-apollo-rocks-dusted-off-to-find-new-evidence-of-water.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Apollo+rocks+dusted+off+to+find+new+evidence+of+waterlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18629-apollo-rocks-dusted-off-to-find-new-evidence-of-water.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/div
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Music and lyrics: How the brain splits songs
When you sing along to the radio, is your brain processing the words and music separately or as one?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f0384/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Music+and+lyrics%3A+How+the+brain+splits+songslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18626-music-and-lyrics-how-the-brain-splits-songs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Music+and+lyrics%3A+How+the+brain+splits+songslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn18626-music-and-lyrics-how-the-brain-splits-songs.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749994599/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158270340/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749994599/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158270340/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Sushi restaurant raided after Hollywood sting
The producers of the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove teamed up with government agents to investigate a California restaurant rumoured to be selling whale meatimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96f0f69/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Sushi+restaurant+raided+after+Hollywood+stinglink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fsushi-restaurant-raided-after.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Sushi+restaurant+raided+after+Hollywood+stinglink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Fsushi-restaurant-raided-after.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750219349/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158273385/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750219349/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158273385/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Today on New Scientist: 9 March 2010
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: extermination in paradise, the "midwife molecule" that could have assembled Earth's first life, and why chameleons can eat breakfastimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/96e768c/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+9+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-9-march.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Today+on+New+Scientist%3A+9+March+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F03%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-9-march.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750103193/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158234252/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65750103193/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/158234252/a2.img" border="0"//a
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