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Fundamental breast and ovarian cancer protein isolated

23 August, 2010 - 17:49
Three separate groups have isolated the BRCA2 protein involved in inherited breast and ovarian cancer, aiding the development of new cancer therapiesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d0b31f9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Fundamental+breast+and+ovarian+cancer+protein+isolatedlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19350-fundamental-breast-and-ovarian-cancer-protein-isolated.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=Fundamental+breast+and+ovarian+cancer+protein+isolatedlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19350-fundamental-breast-and-ovarian-cancer-protein-isolated.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/78868466776/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218837497/kg/68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868466776/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218837497/kg/68/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Artificial ape man: How technology created humans

23 August, 2010 - 17:06
Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to "survival of the weakest"img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d0adab9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Artificial+ape+man%3A+How+technology+created+humanslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F08%2Fartificial-ape-man-how-technology-created-humans.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=Artificial+ape+man%3A+How+technology+created+humanslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fculturelab%2F2010%2F08%2Fartificial-ape-man-how-technology-created-humans.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/78868513599/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218815161/kg/40/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868513599/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218815161/kg/40/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Innovation: Hand-held controls move out of sight

23 August, 2010 - 14:48
Fat fingers get in the way of touchscreen interaction, so why not banish touch to the back of mobile gadgets?img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d09dbc2/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Innovation%3A+Hand-held+controls+move+out+of+sightlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19347-innovation-handheld-controls-move-out-of-sight.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=Innovation%3A+Hand-held+controls+move+out+of+sightlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19347-innovation-handheld-controls-move-out-of-sight.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/78868501293/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218749890/kg/68/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868501293/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218749890/kg/68/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Online games are a gold mine for design ideas

23 August, 2010 - 12:37
When gamers play online, they leave a data trail that intelligent algorithms are picking up to build ever more challenging and entertaining gamesimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d08a24d/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Online+games+are+a+gold+mine+for+design+ideaslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727745.100-online-games-are-a-gold-mine-for-design-ideas.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=Online+games+are+a+gold+mine+for+design+ideaslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727745.100-online-games-are-a-gold-mine-for-design-ideas.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/78868437738/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218669645/kg/31/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868437738/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218669645/kg/31/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Biosemiotics: Searching for meanings in a meadow

23 August, 2010 - 09:30
Are signs and meanings just as vital to living things as enzymes and tissues? bLiz Else/b investigates a science in the makingimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d071344/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Biosemiotics%3A+Searching+for+meanings+in+a+meadowlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.200-biosemiotics-searching-for-meanings-in-a-meadow.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=Biosemiotics%3A+Searching+for+meanings+in+a+meadowlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.200-biosemiotics-searching-for-meanings-in-a-meadow.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/78868416146/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218567492/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868416146/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218567492/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Is quantum theory weird enough for the real world?

23 August, 2010 - 08:00
Our most successful theory of nature is bewilderingly remote from reality. But fixing that may require a weirder theory stillimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d06679a/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Is+quantum+theory+weird+enough+for+the+real+world%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.300-is-quantum-theory-weird-enough-for-the-real-world.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=Is+quantum+theory+weird+enough+for+the+real+world%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.300-is-quantum-theory-weird-enough-for-the-real-world.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/78868408839/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218523546/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868408839/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218523546/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Solar system slips back in time

22 August, 2010 - 18:00
New meteorite evidence has just pushed the age of the solar system back by hundreds of thousands of yearsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d034a44/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Solar+system+slips+back+in+timelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19344-solar-system-slips-back-in-time.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=Solar+system+slips+back+in+timelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19344-solar-system-slips-back-in-time.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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Lung-style fuel cell needs less bling for more oomph

22 August, 2010 - 10:00
Using "bronchial" structures to channel oxygen and hydrogen to a fuel cell's catalyst produces a device that is more efficient and needs less platinumimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d012168/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Lung-style+fuel+cell+needs+less+bling+for+more+oomphlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.900-lungstyle-fuel-cell-needs-less-bling-for-more-oomph.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=Lung-style+fuel+cell+needs+less+bling+for+more+oomphlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.900-lungstyle-fuel-cell-needs-less-bling-for-more-oomph.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/78868396316/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218177896/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868396316/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/218177896/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Killer T-cells, the fix for organ rejection?

21 August, 2010 - 10:00
Cells that selectively suppress immune response in the liver of mice could be used to create "immune-tolerant" organsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cfc90fd/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Killer+T-cells%2C+the+fix+for+organ+rejection%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.100-killer-tcells-the-fix-for-organ-rejection.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=Killer+T-cells%2C+the+fix+for+organ+rejection%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.100-killer-tcells-the-fix-for-organ-rejection.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/78868302922/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217878781/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868302922/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217878781/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Harvard confirms misconduct by morality researcher

20 August, 2010 - 21:48
Bowing to pressure from scientists in animal cognition, Harvard University confirms that an internal investigation has found evidence of misconduct by Marc Hauserimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cfa475a/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Harvard+confirms+misconduct+by+morality+researcherlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19346-harvard-confirms-misconduct-by-morality-researcher.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=Harvard+confirms+misconduct+by+morality+researcherlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19346-harvard-confirms-misconduct-by-morality-researcher.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/78868279136/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217728858/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868279136/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217728858/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Gulf spill: Is the oil lurking underwater?

20 August, 2010 - 18:29
What has happened to the 4.9 million barrels of oil from the busted Macondo well? Some say it's all dispersed – others say it'll be around for monthsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf95f20/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Gulf+spill%3A+Is+the+oil+lurking+underwater%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19345-gulf-spill-is-the-oil-lurking-underwater.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=Gulf+spill%3A+Is+the+oil+lurking+underwater%3Flink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19345-gulf-spill-is-the-oil-lurking-underwater.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/78868312671/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217669408/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868312671/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217669408/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a
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UK promises 'temporary ban' on new legal highs

20 August, 2010 - 18:15
New versions of the drugs will be banned for 12 months to allow independent experts time to consider potential health risks, says Cian O'Luanaighimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d077696/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=UK+promises+%27temporary+ban%27+on+new+legal+highslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fgovernment-promises-temporary.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=UK+promises+%27temporary+ban%27+on+new+legal+highslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fgovernment-promises-temporary.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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Today on New Scientist: 20 August 2010

20 August, 2010 - 18:00
All today's stories on NewScientist.com including: infrared chlorophyll for solar cells, plastic in the Atlantic, the shrinking moon, and moreimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d077697/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+20+August+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-20-augu.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+20+August+2010link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Ftoday-on-new-scientist-20-augu.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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How collapsing bubbles could shoot cancer cells dead

20 August, 2010 - 16:00
Jets of fluid propelled by the collapse of microscopic bubbles could puncture cell walls to deliver drugs directly into cancer cellsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf89814/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=How+collapsing+bubbles+could+shoot+cancer+cells+deadlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727745.300-how-collapsing-bubbles-could-shoot-cancer-cells-dead.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=How+collapsing+bubbles+could+shoot+cancer+cells+deadlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727745.300-how-collapsing-bubbles-could-shoot-cancer-cells-dead.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/78868301254/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217618452/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868301254/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217618452/a2.img" border="0"//a
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This week's top stories [20 August 2010]

20 August, 2010 - 14:00
pOur top articles ranked by reader popularity./pullia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cb8c19f/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn1930A30Eemc20Enot0Eon0Econservapedia0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'E=mc2? Not on Conservapedia/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc6f5a5/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn193130Etide0Eturns0Eagainst0Emilliondollar0Emaths0Eproof0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Tide turns against million-dollar maths proof/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cca1a16/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A7277340B10A0A0Eelephants0Efear0Ehumans0Emore0Ethan0Edynamite0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Elephants fear humans more than dynamite/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc77bbf/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn193140Eswissarmy0Eknife0Etelescope0Etops0Eastronomers0Ewish0Elist0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm''Swiss-army knife' telescope tops astronomers' wish list/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc6521b/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn193110Eflexible0Etubes0Ecould0Ebring0Ewallsized0Etv0Eprice0Ecrash0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Flexible tubes could bring wall-sized TV price crash/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc69629/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn193120Ehow0Emany0Edinosaurs0Ecould0Elive0Ein0Ecentral0Epark0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'How many dinosaurs could live in Central Park?/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc755fb/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Cshortsharpscience0C20A10A0C0A80Ctoday0Eon0Enew0Escientist0E130Eaugu0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Today on New Scientist: 13 August 2010/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc5f869/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cblogs0Cshortsharpscience0C20A10A0C0A80Cwould0Eyou0Elike0Ea0Estatin0Ewith0Ey0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Would you like a statin with your burger?/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/ccedc18/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg20A7277340B30A0A0Ethieving0Eparrots0Ehatch0Ea0Eplan0Eto0Eunlock0Efood0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Thieving parrots hatch a plan to unlock food/a/lilia href='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cc5c958/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn192490Efuture0Eon0Edisplay0Edesk0Elamp0Eturns0Etable0Etop0Einto0E3d0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story02.htm'Future on display: Desk lamp turns table top into 3D/a/li/ulimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/bbec660/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=This+week%27s+top+stories+%5B20+August+2010%5Dlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19303-emc2-not-on-conservapedia.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=This+week%27s+top+stories+%5B20+August+2010%5Dlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19303-emc2-not-on-conservapedia.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/78868244799/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/197052000/kg/34-170/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868244799/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/197052000/kg/34-170/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Flawed proof ushers in era of wikimath

20 August, 2010 - 13:58
The latest attempt to prove P ? NP may be in trouble, but it has still left its mark with a new way of doing mathematicsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf79ba7/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Flawed+proof+ushers+in+era+of+wikimathlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727742.800-flawed-proof-ushers-in-era-of-wikimath.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=Flawed+proof+ushers+in+era+of+wikimathlink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727742.800-flawed-proof-ushers-in-era-of-wikimath.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/78868244798/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217553831/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868244798/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217553831/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a
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You don't need brothers or sisters to be sociable

20 August, 2010 - 13:18
Does an only child have worse social skills than one with siblings? No, says a study of US students' patterns of friendshipimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf72790/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=You+don%27t+need+brothers+or+sisters+to+be+sociablelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.700-you-dont-need-brothers-or-sisters-to-be-sociable.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=You+don%27t+need+brothers+or+sisters+to+be+sociablelink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727744.700-you-dont-need-brothers-or-sisters-to-be-sociable.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/78867773005/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217524112/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78867773005/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217524112/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Making light work of LED droop

20 August, 2010 - 11:05
LEDs suffer from an embarrassing drop in performance when the power goes up. Tweaking their "quantum wells" could perk them upimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf68298/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Making+light+work+of+LED+drooplink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19343-making-light-work-of-led-droop.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=Making+light+work+of+LED+drooplink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19343-making-light-work-of-led-droop.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/78868271925/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217481880/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868271925/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217481880/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Ancient Chinese medicine could boost cancer therapy

20 August, 2010 - 10:26
An 1800 year-old recipe could boost cancer treatment and reduce side effects of chemotherapy, says Cian O'Luanaighimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf5bdf9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Ancient+Chinese+medicine+could+boost+cancer+therapylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fancient-chinese-medicine-could.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=Ancient+Chinese+medicine+could+boost+cancer+therapylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fancient-chinese-medicine-could.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/78868263315/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217431545/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868263315/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217431545/a2.img" border="0"//a
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Hydrogen bonds are caught on camera

20 August, 2010 - 09:00
They lead to water's high boiling point, ice's ability to float and DNA's double helix ndash; now hydrogen bonds have been imaged for the first timeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/cf4fbab/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hydrogen+bonds+are+caught+on+cameralink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19339-hydrogen-bonds-are-caught-on-camera.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=Hydrogen+bonds+are+caught+on+cameralink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19339-hydrogen-bonds-are-caught-on-camera.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/78868212400/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217381803/kg/43/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868212400/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/217381803/kg/43/a2.img" border="0"//a
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