Genetically modified bacteria that munch on sugar to produce refinable oil could bring down the cost of switching to cleaner liquid fuelsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c602a6f/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=E.+coli+engineered+to+make+convenient+%27drop-in%27+biofuellink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19238-e-coli-engineered-to-make-convenient-dropin-biofuel.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=E.+coli+engineered+to+make+convenient+%27drop-in%27+biofuellink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19238-e-coli-engineered-to-make-convenient-dropin-biofuel.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/77788040140/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207628911/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788040140/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207628911/a2.img" border="0"//a

All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: doubts over shaken baby syndrome, a new take on Alzheimer's and the decline of Phytoplanktonimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c600bd4/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+29+July+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-29-july.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+29+July+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-29-july.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/77788905106/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207621076/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788905106/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207621076/a2.img" border="0"//a

The World Heritage Committee has taken the Galapagos off its Danger List, says Michael Marshall. In other news, mice have nothing to fear from catsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c600262/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Galapagos+off+the+Danger+List+%26%238211%3B+but+why%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fgalapagos-off-the-danger-list.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=Galapagos+off+the+Danger+List+%26%238211%3B+but+why%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fgalapagos-off-the-danger-list.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/77788903979/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207618658/kg/65/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788903979/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207618658/kg/65/a2.img" border="0"//a

A trick used in 3D-movie theatres could enable totally secure quantum communication with satellitesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c5eca79/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Satellite+quantum+communication+circles+closerlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19234-satellite-quantum-communication-circles-closer.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=Satellite+quantum+communication+circles+closerlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19234-satellite-quantum-communication-circles-closer.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/77788591862/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207538809/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788591862/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207538809/a2.img" border="0"//a

Tiny marine plants that help support life in the oceans are declining in numbers #8211; and that's worth worrying about, says Michael Marshallimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c5e99be/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Phytoplankton+in+decline%3A+bye+bye+food+chain%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fphytoplankton-in-decline-bye-b.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=Phytoplankton+in+decline%3A+bye+bye+food+chain%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fphytoplankton-in-decline-bye-b.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/77788886465/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207526334/kg/45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788886465/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207526334/kg/45/a2.img" border="0"//a

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The emotions you feel have evolved as tools to manipulate others into cooperating with you, says a controversial new theoryimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c570aba/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+emotions+evolve+to+push+others+into+cooperation%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19232-did-emotions-evolve-to-push-others-into-cooperation.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=Did+emotions+evolve+to+push+others+into+cooperation%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19232-did-emotions-evolve-to-push-others-into-cooperation.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/77788801248/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207030970/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788801248/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/207030970/a2.img" border="0"//a

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A crowdsourced tattoo could have been a brave art experiment #8211; but did contradictory priorities make this project wide of the mark, asks Kat Austenimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c55656a/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Experiments+in+body+art%3A+Crowdsourcing+a+tattoolink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F07%2Fexperiments-in-body-art-crowd-sourcing-a-tattoo.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=Experiments+in+body+art%3A+Crowdsourcing+a+tattoolink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F07%2Fexperiments-in-body-art-crowd-sourcing-a-tattoo.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/77788777741/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206923114/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788777741/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206923114/a2.img" border="0"//a

The death of the computer mouse must rank as one of the slowest in history. Could Apple's latest offering provide the killer blow?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c554712/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Apple%2C+trackpads%2C+and+the+long+death+of+the+mouselink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fapple-trackpads-and-the-long-d.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=Apple%2C+trackpads%2C+and+the+long+death+of+the+mouselink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F07%2Fapple-trackpads-and-the-long-d.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/77788776376/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206915346/kg/68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788776376/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206915346/kg/68/a2.img" border="0"//a

If ever there was an animal that said "Don't even think about eating me," it would be the blood-spraying Texas horned lizardimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/c55148c/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+Horror+lizard+squirts+tears+of+bloodlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19231-zoologger-horror-lizard-squirts-tears-of-blood.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+Horror+lizard+squirts+tears+of+bloodlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19231-zoologger-horror-lizard-squirts-tears-of-blood.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/77788479269/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206902412/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/77788479269/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/206902412/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a