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Vaccines win victory in autism court

8 hours 16 min ago
US parents who say that vaccines triggered autism in their children now face yet another setback

Could moon rocket demise bring space shuttle reprieve?

9 hours 30 min ago
Opponents of the plan to retire the space shuttle later this year have been emboldened by the cancellation of NASA's Constellation programme

Amputees could get a helping hand in the virtual world

10 hours 18 min ago
The rubber hand illusion is even more powerful in virtual environments, where people adopt virtual appendages as their own without physical stimuli

Crystals + sound + water = clean hydrogen fuel

16 March 2010 - 10:41pm
A novel material absorbs the energy of sound waves and uses it to rip apart water molecules, releasing hydrogen gas

Mind-reading gorillas love a good game

16 March 2010 - 10:16pm
Not only humans cajole bored friends to keep playing with them – it shows that gorillas may have "theory of mind", and maybe even a sense of humour

If mum is happy and you know it, wave your fetal arms

16 March 2010 - 10:08pm
Not only food and oxygen pass from woman to fetus – fleeting sadness or happiness can also be transmitted to an unborn baby

Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms

16 March 2010 - 9:36pm
The guinea worm grows to a metre long in its victim's body before punching its way out – but hopefully not for much longer

Levitate cancer cells for rapid 3D tissue

16 March 2010 - 8:07pm
Iron-rich cells that grow into balls when "levitated" by magnets could provide a new way to study cancer in the lab – and produce replacement tissue for grafts

Kees van Deemter: The importance of being vague

16 March 2010 - 8:00pm
The computational linguist argues that the world is not made of discrete objects nor represented by binary logic – time to embrace our fuzzy reality

'Bug' prints can put you at crime scene

16 March 2010 - 5:00am
By comparing the unique collection of bacteria found on a person's hand with those recovered at a crime scene, microbes could act like fingerprints

Today on New Scientist: 15 March 2010

16 March 2010 - 4:00am
All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: the extreme empaths who feel your pain, the true forces driving elephant poaching, and the power of the "Wasabi" gene

Animal activists' unsettling bid for freedom

16 March 2010 - 3:00am
Freedom of information requests on animal experiments are unsettling researchers at British universities, says Andy Coghlan

Hurtling star on a path to clip solar system

16 March 2010 - 2:42am
The orange dwarf Gliese 710 has an 86 per cent chance of passing through the Oort cloud around the solar system, sending comets speeding our way

Evidence for life on Mars may be staring us in the face

16 March 2010 - 2:11am
The sulphur compounds that litter the surface of Mars may contain the signature of life

Law enforcement: the elephant in the ivory room

16 March 2010 - 1:25am
The real forces that drive elephant poaching are being obscured by squabbles over whether stockpiled ivory should be sold legally, says Tom Milliken

Corruption raises doubts over ivory sales

16 March 2010 - 1:20am
Arguments over whether to allow one-off sales of ivory stockpiles have dominated the opening of a two-week summit on trade in endangered species

We feel your pain: Extreme empaths

15 March 2010 - 11:45pm
For some people, horror films are literally agonising to watch. Finding out why could reveal the roots of compassion

It is time to geek the vote

15 March 2010 - 11:40pm
Science will only become an election issue if the voters care about it, says Nick Dusic

Brain chemical is reward for psychopathic traits

15 March 2010 - 8:42pm
Overvaluing the pleasure of getting what they want may cause psychopaths to pursue these rewards at any cost

Electronics 'missing link' brings neural computing closer

15 March 2010 - 8:21pm
Memristors, the "missing link of electronics", behave uncannily like the junctions between neurons in the brain

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