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Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 08:10:38 PDT
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NewScientist.com newsletter, 15 July 2004
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week reveals how Stephen Hawking may have solved the black hole
information paradox, why people prefer polite computers and how
exploding eggs could pinpoint space junk.
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Exploding eggshells could reduce space junk risk
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Cold waters leave whales washed up
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MRI used to detect lone electron
Gulf war veterans have fertility problems
Astronauts could save Hubble, says panel
Dust worms hold the key to planet formation
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PRIONS SHAPE UP
CLEVER, BUT NOT SMART
HUNTING THE HIGGS
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PARADOX LOST
After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys
everything that falls into it, Stephen Hawking now says he was
wrong. The about-turn might solve one of the long-standing puzzles
in modern physics, known as the black hole information paradox - and
cost the physicist an encyclopaedia. MORE
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996151
Polite computers win users' hearts and minds
Computer glitches are less annoying if PCs are programmed to
acknowledge errors gracefully, finds a researcher
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996156
This improbable link is based on the idea that eggshells and
discarded space rockets will break up in a similar way
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996153
The finding, even in hearing babies, supports the idea that human
infants have an innate sensitivity to the rhythm of language
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996154
Whale strandings are no longer quite such a mystery - on the beaches
of south-east Australia at least
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996155
The danger is highlighted in a report written by radiation experts
for the UK government, which has been leaked to New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996152
The technique could one day reveal the 3-D shape of molecules and
atomic-scale features inside transistors
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996158
The effect is small but significant - however claims that there is
no unique Gulf War Syndrome continue
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996157
NASA must not rule out a shuttle mission to repair the telescope,
says a top-level panel - a robotic mission would be "experimental"
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996150
A six-minute experiment aboard an unmanned rocket suggests that dust
orbiting a young star coalesces to form tiny elongated "worms"
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996149
New world computer chess champ crowned
The winner is an aggressive and daring software program called
Junior, which is also prone to the odd human-like error
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996144
World falling short on condom provision
Condoms, the main scientifically proven way of preventing HIV
transmission, are in woefully short supply in key regions
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996135
If your home is plagued by ants, could you usefully employ an
anteater to gobble them all up? Or is there a more effective way to
get rid of them without using environmentally unfriendly ant powder?
Find out more in this week's Last Word section...MORE
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/article.jsp?id=lw1118
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TAMING THE FOURTH DIMENSION
After 100 years, Poincare's conjecture on the properties of space
might just have been proved
Shape-changing proteins like the ones that cause CJD could set our
body clocks and aid memory
If intelligence is such a great idea, how come so many so many
animals are stupid?
The Higgs particle is thought to be what gives everything mass. But
does it really exist, and is so, where is it?
Migrating birds don't sleep
Neurons use geometry
Double quick disaster prediction
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