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Robotic butlers, oily wrecks and avatars
Posted by plato1 22 hours ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
This month's New Scientist TV includes the training of a robot servant, high-tech deep sea salvage and body language for virtual stand-ins
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Did hair dryer stymy launch of human cannonball?
Posted by plato1 1 day 17 hours ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
The first rocket-launch attempted by the non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals didn't leave the pad, but its inventors haven't given up yet
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Why your brain flips over visual illusions
Posted by plato1 4 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
What happens in your brain when you view illusions in which two separate images can be seen?
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Can US Congress overturn stem-cell funding freeze?
Posted by plato1 5 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
Congress could find a way around the shock court ruling that has frozen US government support for work on human embryonic stem cells
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For self-healing concrete, just add bacteria and food
Posted by plato1 6 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
Adding limestone-forming bacteria to the mix could help the concrete seal dangerous cracks on its own
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Do artefacts belong in museums?
Posted by plato1 7 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
In Finders Keepers: A tale of archaeological plunder and obsession, Craig Childs outlines the opposing views about the proper place for history
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Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse
Posted by plato1 8 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
The Marxist philosopher says environmentalism is a new opiate of the people, Bill Gates has privatised part of our intellect, and reality is incomplete
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Real invisibility threads would be fit for an emperor
Posted by plato1 10 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
Combining techniques used to produce light-bending metamaterials with those used to make optical fibres might just make see-through threads a reality
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Sunspots squeeze and stretch the day
Posted by plato1 11 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
These dark regions may somehow alter the rate of Earth's spin – an insight that could help steer spacecraft more accurately
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Half a billion eggs recalled in US salmonella outbreak
Posted by plato1 12 days ago (http://feeds.newscientist.com)
Thousands of cases of egg-related food poisoning have occurred in the US while investigators search out likely sources of the outbreak
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