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29 June 2013

Issue 2923

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Gaia's comeback: How life shapes the weather

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Gaia's comeback: How life shapes the weather

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Civic hackers: Techies volunteer to rescue government

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Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery

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Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery

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Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job

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What a new jumbo particle reveals about extreme matter

We're used to scientists making ever bigger atoms. Now it seems subatomic particles can be pushed to similar extremes to create new forms of matter. Researchers at two particle detectors reported on Monday the strongest evidence yet for a particle made of more than three quarks, the subatomic building blocks of matter. What does that mean for understanding of matter – and why does that matter? New Scientist investigates

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Zoologger: Pilot whales cuddle in the abyss

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Give picked veg some light to make it better for you

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New signs of language surface in mystery Voynich text

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Want fewer hurricanes? Pollute the air

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Evidence that Tamiflu reduces deaths in pandemic flu

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Video system detects pulse from tiny head movements

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Wild Alaskan weather intensifies climate debate

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Tabletop accelerator shoots cheap antimatter bullets

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Mathematicians think like machines for perfect proofs

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Submarine internet cables are a gift for spooks

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Life

Three habitable worlds found around the same star

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NASA launches new telescope to solve sun heat mystery

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Nerve grafts let paralysed rats pee again

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Life

Expectation alone turns a rubber hand into a 'real' one

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Indian flood deaths blamed on 'mindless' construction

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Go green to profit from environmental change

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How to grow human spare organs inside pigs

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Life

Oldest animal genome is sequenced from horse bone

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Genetic medicine hints at bloodletting for astronauts

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Mechanical eye will help wine-makers improve vintages

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Life

AI makes social game characters all too human

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Wi-Fi-hopping brings phone signal to remote villages

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Bloodhound robot navigates by its sense of smell

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Erosion helps keep mountains standing tall

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Life

Ready, aim, throw! Lobbing rocks key to meat-eating

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Is missing 'partial' neutrino a boson in disguise?

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Opinion

Why I've built a search engine that doesn't follow you

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Why I've built a search engine that doesn't follow you

"It's a myth that Google needs to track users to make money" Revelations about governments' online snooping have been good news for Gabriel Weinberg , builder of DuckDuckGo – a search engine that doesn't track its users What made you set up DuckDuckGo ? I started it a little over five years ago, just intending …

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Europe's carbon tax is down but not out

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My life goal is to cure colour blindness

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Don't stop stockpiling Tamiflu

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Don't take life sitting down

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Human-animal hybrids mean boom time for bioethicists

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Analysis

Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks

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Brazil uprising points to rise of leaderless networks

A call to arms BRAZILIANS are calling the protests sweeping through their country the Salad Uprising after police began arresting people carrying vinegar as a remedy for tear gas. The name could be more apt than protesters realise: uprisings of this sort could also have food links. But they spread like a disease. Brazil's uprising …

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Multi-shot video can identify civil rights abusers

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Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection

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Peaceful passenger pigeon waits for resurrection

(Image: Marc Schlossman/Panos) PASSENGER pigeons once formed flocks so vast that they would darken the sky for days as they flew past. In the 19th century there were some 5 billion individual birds in North America, more than any other wild bird species in the world. From a position of such super-abundance, it was unthinkable …

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Gaia's comeback: How life shapes the weather

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Gaia's comeback: How life shapes the weather

The world would be warming even faster if forests weren't calling in the clouds. Could it be that Gaia is not so helpless after all?

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Civic hackers: Techies volunteer to rescue government

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Blast from the past: Solving the Tunguska mystery

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Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job

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Enigma Number 1755

Sudoprime II The grid shows a cross-figure with two digits given as a start. All 11 two- and three-digit answers are prime and none has a leading zero; no digit appears more than once in any row, column or either of the two long diagonals; no even digit appears more than once anywhere. What are …

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Citizen scientist: Out of the lab and onto the streets

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Feedback: Holy breadsticks

Feedback: Holy breadsticks

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Holy breadsticks IDLY studying a packet of Sainsbury's grissini breadsticks, Chris McManus noted with approval that they were "Torinesi grissini", so presumably from Turin. But the small print on the back says "Produced in Italy (incl. Vatican City)". "Doesn't that …

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