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Americans would pay more for green energy
The American public would pay extra to get green electricity, but partisan politics means their elected representatives still won't adopt it
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Touch sensitivity is genetically linked to hearing
Impaired touch among deaf students indicates that some of the genes causing deafness may also dull finger sensitivity
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Font for digits lets numbers punch their weight
With FatFonts, the area of each digit is exactly proportional to its value, a system that could transform the art of data visualisation
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Acoustic graphene could act as a sonic cloak
The amazing electrical properties of graphene have inspired the creation of a perspex material with remarkable sound-channelling characteristics
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Scarecrow Mars rover takes spin in California desert
NASA's Curiosity rover, still en route for Mars, has an Earthly double with no computer brains. This week, scientists took it out for a trial run
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Today on New Scientist: 11 May 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: snow snaps give you a better weather picture and ghostly glows mark violent deaths of stars
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Camera app and patent take on iPhone face recognition
Facial recognition is a computer-power-hungry task but it is finally starting to arrive on Apple's smartphone
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Antiviral drug backed for use in HIV prevention
The drug Truvada could soon be available to prevent people from catching HIV, following recommended approval by US health experts
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Zoologger: Bug evolved a self-propelling corkscrew
The marine bacterium Synechococcus has no flagellum to propel itself, but it still gets around thanks to a twisted rod inside its body
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Ghostly glows mark violent deaths of stars
Supernovae leave glowing embers behind – see some of the most beautiful remnants of exploding stars in our gallery
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Astrophile: Two craters that launched 1000 meteorites
Vesta thought its days as the solar system's punching bag were over – then along came two bullies that are solely responsible for a whole class of meteorite
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Neuroscience clues to who you aren't
This week's roundup looks at our multiple selves, the clues to ancestry lying in our genes, and our individual experience of time
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Thermostat protein could help burn off the flab
Turning the body's brown fat into a furnace fuelled by unwanted flab might provide a new way to lose weight
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Smart jug tells your phone when milk runs low
A jug equipped with a weight sensor sends alerts to your smartphone when you are close to running out of milk
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Self-bending light boomerangs could help surgeons
Microscopic light beams that turns corners could make curving incisions in the body and improve the way microscopic components are carved and transported
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Friday Illusion: Ballerina spins in two ways at once
See a new version of a twirling illusion that confuses your brain with multiple interpretations
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Feedback: The oxygen of terror
Purveyors of the finest oxygen, BBC enters temporal loop, where you can shove a sculpture, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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With no paper trail, can science determine age?
When faced with immigrants who claim to be children but have no proof, officials resort to X-ray scans – but such tests cannot be trusted
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Snow snaps give you a better weather picture
Analysing Flickr photos tagged with the word "snow" can help fill in the gaps in satellite weather data
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Death Valley provides rover's-eye view of Mars geology
New Scientist visits Death Valley to find out how human geologists read Earth's past in its present – and how the rover Curiosity will apply those tricks on Mars
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Eco-warrior probing Papua New Guinea's forests
Biologist Vojtech Novotny has to cope with warring tribes as he works in one of the most biologically diverse regions on Earth (full text available to subscribers)
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Maya astronomical tables found daubed on wall
For the first time archaeologists have found astronomical writings dating from the height of the Maya civilisation in the 9th century
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Sun too sluggish to act as a cosmic Concorde
Our star is moving through a cloud of interstellar gas too slowly to create a "sonic boom" that would shield the solar system from some galactic cosmic rays
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Today on New Scientist: 10 May 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the biochemistry of love, the improbable ape, incurable TB and missing supernovae
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America's report card - science skills improving
The US National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals good news about science education – but can Obama take credit for the boost?
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Unknown language found stamped in ancient clay tablet
Women's names listed on a 2700-year-old clay tablet are in a language never seen before – perhaps a sign that they were forced from their homeland
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Does literature impact what scientists study?
A new research project analyses the influence of literature on scientists' pursuits
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Ferrofluid dances to live earthquake activity
See a new installation that uses ferrofluid to visualise earthquake activity worldwide in real time
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Roulette beater spills physics behind victory
World-famous mathematician breaks his decades-long silence over how he turned the odds of roulette against the house
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The biochemistry of love and empathy
Neuroeconomist Paul Zak tells how his curiosity about morality led him on a biochemical hunt for oxytocin.
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Next Xbox could have a biometric controller
Microsoft has patented an Xbox controller able to take biometric readings of your hand, letting it identify individuals or read their emotions
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We are the improbable ape
If evolution is all about "climbing mount improbable", humans have climbed higher than any
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AI branding automates the brainstorm
Coming up with a name for your new product can be a head-scratcher. Automating the process might make things easier
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Fears over incurable TB deepen after retesting
A strain of tuberculosis in India continues to resist all drugs, and the country re-opens a new sanitorium to help deal with the TB's resurgence
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Seeking neutrino clues to missing supernovae
Half the universe's supernovae explode without a trace. Stuart Clark trails the neutrino sleuths looking for the faintest of clues (full text available to subscribers)
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Peek inside a next-generation SpaceX taxi
A cosy scene provides a glimpse of how NASA astronauts may soon make their way to the International Space Station
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Human brain prosciutto builds up 3D atlas
Watch how slicing and staining the brain is helping to create the first open-access 3D atlas of the organ in high resolution
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Silicon Valley reaches for the sky
An experimental, entrepreneurial spirit may be just what space exploration needs
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Today on New Scientist: 9 May 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Belle de Jour on sexuality, the gene switch that made our brains, the new commercial space age, and more
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Private firm SpaceX gears up to spark next space age
Docking with the ISS would be a first for a commercial craft – and a key milestone for making space flight cheaper and more innovative (full text available to subscribers)
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