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UK Pirate Bay block could be 'easily circumvented'
A UK High Court order to force ISPs to block access to an online file-sharing site may do little to stop illegal downloads
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California meteorite is rare rock laden with organics
Fragments of the meteorite have revealed that it is much more exciting than scientists thought
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When humans attack: The fallout of the shark slaughter
We are killing so many of the ocean's top predators that their numbers are plummeting. Does it matter? (full text available to subscribers)
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Getting a feel for happiness
A new exhibition in Dublin makes guinea pigs of its visitors to find out what make people happy
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Guerilla enlightenment: Defending science online
Pro-reason bloggers are doing a better job than scientists at challenging alternative medicine. Long may it continue, says Nicoli Nattrass
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Robot sensing and smartphones help blind navigate
Technology that helps robots navigate has another purpose: helping blind people find their way around
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Dramatic storm clouds win photography prize
A photograph taken of a Texas supercell storm has been announced as the winner of the L'Iris d'Or photography prize
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Today on New Scientist: 30 April 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how the internet can read your mind and wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery
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Wind turbines can cause localised warming
Satellite observations show that wind farms may be responsible for surface warming in an area of Texas which hosts four of the world's largest wind farms
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Wrinkled doughnut solves geometrical mystery
A shape has finally been visualised that had evaded mathematicians since the 1950s, including John Nash
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Don't let up in war against antibiotic resistance
There is fresh hope in the global battle to tackle the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Let's press home the advantage, says Shelley Hearne
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Countering the drug industry's marketing machine
Campaigning psychiatrist David Healy says patients, not drug companies, should give feedback on medicines for a true picture of their effectiveness
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Let commerce, not just inspiration, drive innovation
We're often blinded by the brilliance of fundamental breakthroughs, with little regard to what follows. We must change to prosper, says John Fisher
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The medical prescience of Edgar Allan Poe
Master wordsmith Edgar Allan Poe wrote about frontal lobe syndrome before the medical community got their heads around brain trauma
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'Bullet time' to stop cyber attacks on power grids
Slowing down internet traffic using hyper-speed signals could give networks time to deal with cyber attacks on crucial infrastructure
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A dusty home may influence a baby's gut
Baby gut bacteria have been found in dust from their home. The finding suggests that people who share a dusty home may also share gut bacteria too
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How the internet can read your mind
Watch an animation that show how algorithms can extract personal information from social networking sites
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Street wise: Giant brains go on outdoor display
Neuroanatomist and stroke survivor Jill Bolte Taylor tells Kat Austen why she hopes her display of cerebral artwork will raise awareness of the brain
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‘Bullet time' signals to stop cyber attacks on grid
Slowing down internet traffic using hyper-speed signals could give networks time to deal with cyber attacks on crucial infrastructure
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Waterway robbery
Countries must be stopped from seizing their neighbours' rivers
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Three golden rules for budding entrepreneurs
If you want your start-up to be successful, follow Myshkin Ingawale's three hard-earned lessons
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Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld
The elusive particles could reveal Earth's origins and inner workings – if only we can catch enough of them, says Anil Ananthaswamy (full text available to subscribers)
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Move over graphene, silicene is the new star material
Wonder material graphene now has a silicon-based competitor that could be more compatible with electronic devices
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Give treatment earlier to slow spread of HIV
Treatment should be given to HIV carriers with an uninfected partner to reduce transmission and slow the epidemic, says the World Health Organization
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Gut-microbe swap changes eating habits
Obesity-resistant rats pile on the pounds after receiving gut bacteria from obese rodents
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Japan's last operational nuclear reactor to go offline
Japan will take its last operational nuclear reactor offline next weekend – but the country may not remain nuclear-free for long
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Older than Giza – ancient burial chamber revealed
A laser-scanning project has revealed what's hidden inside Maeshowe, the 5000-year-old tomb in Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland
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Today on New Scientist: 27 April 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: cells reprogrammed to mend a broken heart and how to win a Nobel for someone else's work
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Epigenetic changes linked with ageing
Some of the genetic changes associated with ageing may be the result of epigenetics – which suggests they could be reversed
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Strange fat explains skin's waterproof properties
The fat molecules in skin have a unique arrangement that forms an impermeable layer. Finding ways to break through could improve drug delivery
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Cells reprogrammed to mend a broken heart
Damaged heart cells can be transformed into healthy beating muscle cells that could help treat a heart attack
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Pigeon brain's global positioning system located
We may not know how birds detect the magnetic fields that help them navigate, but we have now identified where in the brain the signals are processed
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Brain may not be hard-wired to link numbers and space
Our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – must be learned
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Friday Illusion: Upright balance beam seems to tilt
See how visual cues can make parallel lines look skewed
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Super-accurate atomic clock sets time travel record
The clock's tick traversed an optical fibre 900 km long, paving the way for a network of synched clocks that could test Einstein's theory of gravity
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How to win a Nobel for someone else's work
Claiming credit for scientific breakthroughs. PLUS: cartoon treatment of quackery, remembering Mars successes and the new subconscious
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Evolution re-run test to probe life's predictability
A 500-million-year-old bacterial protein has been resurrected to test whether it would evolve in a similar way given a second chance
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Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur?
Remarkable fossil finds in China seemed to have settled a long-running argument once and for all – birds really do represent the last living dinosaur. But do they? (full text available to subscribers)
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Feedback: Do hairpieces reduce vitamin D?
Why comb-overs could damage your health, how many 5-minute walks would cross the English Channel, hydrogen-rich water, and more (full text available to subscribers)
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Crowdsourced piano-playing lets you choose the tune
An experiment in "collaborative improvisation" at MIT's Media Lab lets online listeners choose what direction the music should take
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