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12 May 2008

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Goodbye Arthur C. Clarke – Visionary
We must wish Andrey Kobilnyk, departing editor of FirstScience.com, good luck this week and...
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Scrape, scratch and ouch!
Scratch, scrape and ouch. Ugh... every morning... It's not much of a mystery - we're...
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Wait... A laptop for less than US$ 400?
Is a usable laptop for less than US$ 400 believable? Does it work? The short answer seems to...
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Bicycles - part of the urban transport solution?
Back when I was growing up - sometime after the invention of the wheel - I rode a bicycle...
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2008 - Year of the first cyber-war?
The concept of an attack by one nation on another seems on the cusp of being redefined. In...
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US 2008 Science budget slashed
The USA, the world's largest economy will be spending less on science in 2008, with physics...
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What we may believe...
“Why are scientists and government not making decisions for the future in a manner more in...
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A robot for dentists?
A robot for dentists would strike many of us as being a bit odd and perhaps frightening. But...
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Gifts for Geeks!
Christmas gifts for scientists, the curious, and the geek in your life.... It's now less than...
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Monkey Cloning: Are humans next?
Human cloning has taken a step closer to reality. While this is the first case of a cloned...
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Comet Holmes - A big surprise!
It wasn’t supposed to be a big show – but it is. Visible in the night sky without binoculars...
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Scientists and the media: victims or villains?
Do scientists get the media they deserve? Are scientists ambitious? Crazy? Irresponsible? ...
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Could Neanderthals speak?
Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals had a gene which is associated with speech in...
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50 years: Sputnik, the space race, and what next?
October 4, 2007 was the 50 year anniversary of human designed machines leaving the warm embrace...
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Do animals have rights?
Caligula, the mad Roman emperor, made his horse a senator. Circus lore recalls tales of...
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Bad news for Microsoft?
Earlier this week Microsoft lost a long running appeal in the European Court of First Instance. ...
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Farewell to Utopia?
What do we imagine the future will look like? How will people live 50 years from now � or even a...
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Is life delicate, or is it strong?
If the question can be phrased in this manner then it would appear that a recent report indicates...
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Massive hole found in the Universe!
It's an extremely odd discovery - a volume almost a billion light-years across and empty not only...
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ARMED WITH NOTHING BUT PEER REVIEWED SCIENCE
This was the banner under which protesters marched yesterday, the last day of a week long very...
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Words on the web: Cyberchondriac (sy.bur.KAWN.dree.ak)
I know I�m sick � very sick, with a very serious illness. Yesterday, I felt a bit tired, today...
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It's cold - but it's mine. I say so...
Last Thursday August 2nd, two Russian mini-subs travelled under the surface of the Arctic Ocean...
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Metal planes are impossible
Lord Kelvin, an extremely noted scientist and technologist said in 1895 that...
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Radiation and three-eyed fish
Could radiation from nuclear power plants or other sources really cause fish to grow three...
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Science? Why should I bother?
It�s unusual for a science publication to take this sort of tone � but let�s have a...
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Alien Life - Official: it's stranger than you think...
What are the limits to life in planetary systems? A new study from the National Research Council...
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Newton: Hypotheses non fingo
During the 16th and 17th centuries long held beliefs regarding the composition and behaviour of...
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How to get to Space - cheap...
There are many reasons why exploring and later living in space will be...
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The Internet Weather Report
It's probably not the kind of Internet Weather Report that you're thinking...
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Reigning cats and dogs
It must be something in the air, perhaps, but over the past few weeks my inbox...
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