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• Scientists develop ‘minicopters’ that can’t be knocked down

  
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  London, November 28 (ANI): A team of scientists has developed mini helicopters that can get airborne even after they are knocked to the ground, and can also warn fellow copters if they bump into an obstacle.According to a report in New Scientist, the ‘minicopters’ have been developed by researchers at Carnegie ...
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• Proper use of English could help virus dodge security

  
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  London, November 28 (ANI): Security researchers have pointed out a basic weakness in antivirus tactics, saying hackers could escape computer protection by hiding malware within ordinary English-language sentences.Josh Mason of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues found that the ...
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• 1996 Mars rock may harbor fossilized microbes

  
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  London, November 28 (ANI): Scientists studying a chunk of Mars rock that was found in Antarctica in 1996, have determined that it may show signs of life, in the form of fossilized microbes.In 1996, David McKay of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texax, and colleagues proposed that that a chunk of Mars rock ...
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• ‘Holographic videoconferencing’ comes one step closer to commercial use

  
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  London, November 27 (ANI): With a London-based company adopting a method that creates life-size hologram-like images for theatrical purposes to the needs of modern businesses, ‘holographic videoconferencing’ has come one step closer to commercial use. In the 19th century, Henry Dircks, and later John Pepper, ...
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• Brain scans could one day be used to tell a Dali from a Picasso

  
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  London, Nov 27 (ANI): Can brain scans help classify art? Well, researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan seem to have found the answer.Lead researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani insists brain activity patterns can be used to determine whether someone is looking at a surrealist landscape by ...
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• NASA’s new space telescope to start hunt for stealth asteroids

  
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  London, November 27 (ANI): NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is all set to start its hunt for stealth asteroids.According to a report in New Scientist, WISE, which headed to the launch pad last week, will map the entire sky in infrared. It will spot everything from nearby cool, failed stars to ...
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• How to trap a rainbow

  
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  London, November 27 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have used a convex lens to trap a rainbow for the first time.In 2007, Ortwin Hess of the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, and colleagues proposed a technique to trap light inside a tapering waveguide, which is a structure that guides light waves down its ...
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• British engineers found new way to stop computer viruses in their tracks

  
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  When a new virus hits the Internet, there is little that an anti-virus software can do to stop the malware on the very day. But now British engineers have come up with an answer to the problem. Engineers Simon Wiseman and Richard Oak from defence... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Eat less meat to save Earth and your heart

  
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  London, November 26 (ANI): In a new research, a team of scientists has determined that eating less meat may help save planet Earth, as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks in humans.According to a report in New Scientist, the research was done by Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical [...]
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• Greenland ice loss responsible for a sixth of global sea-level rise

  
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  London, November 23 (ANI): In a long term research, scientists have found that Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise. According to a report in New Scientist, Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and ...
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• Dark galaxy may be crashing into Milky Way

  
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  London, November 23 (ANI): New calculations by a team of astronomers have indicated that a dark galaxy may be crashing into our own Milky Way. In 2008, a cloud of hydrogen with a mass then estimated at about 1 million suns was found to be colliding with our galaxy. Now, according to a report in [...]
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• Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes could be brimming with hearty soup for life

  
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  London, November 23 (ANI): New calculations have suggested that Saturn’s moon Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms.At about -180 degree Celsius, Titan’s surface is far too cold for liquid water. But, two pairs of ...
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• US Army toyed with telepathic ray gun

  
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  Source: New Scientist A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for “ray gun” devices, which would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people’s heads. The report titled “Bioeffects Of Selected Nonlethal Weapons” was released ...
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• Qinetiq Energy: A Patent Leathering

  
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  I was rather scathing recently in a blog for AVIEN (the Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network) about a New Scientist report that described a pending patent from Qinetiq: since that blog was picked up by the Register , perhaps Ill qualify my "sarcastic" comments here. Notes to New Scientist: You might want ...
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• Elite sportsmen likely to be handsome (Re-issue)

  
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  London, Nov 22 (ANI): Apart from hard work, grit and, raw talent, there is another trait of the most accomplished jocks - a handsome face, says a new research.A research team led by Justin Park at the University of Bristol, UK, has concluded that the better an American football player, the more attractive he ...
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• Greenland ice loss responsible for a sixth of sea-level rise

  
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  London, Nov 22 (ANI): Between 2000 and 2008, Greenland lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice, which is responsible for one-sixth of global sea-level rise, says scientists.Michiel van den Broeke of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and colleagues say that the bad news is that the rate of ice loss is increasing.To reach ...
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• How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world

  
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  Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. But that is not the only scandal in the shipping world. Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An ...
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• US ‘to ban drinks containing combination of alcohol, caffeine’

  
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  London, Nov 22 (ANI): The US Food and Drug Administration has announced that drinks, which contain a combination of alcohol and caffeine, will be banned within months if proven to be unsafe.The agency has asked for scientific evidence to prove it is safe, as they are worried that consuming the drinks, which can mask ...
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• US Plans to Ban Irish Coffee….

  
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  Echoing the prohibition that hung round the great depression, the current global economic crisis seems to be encouraging people to ban things, almost at random. From New Scientist : THE US Food and Drug Administration is unimpressed by the fad for drinks that contain a double hit – alcohol and caffeine. Unless ...
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• Comets may have delivered water on Moon

  
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  London, November 21 (ANI): Evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction with the solar wind.In October, the mission crashed two impactors - a spent rocket stage and a few minutes ...
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