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This week's top stories from the web's No.1 science and technology news service

17 March 2010

 

 

 

 

Dear Dr.v.n., welcome to the New Scientist newsletter. This week, we reveal how pulsars could reveal gravitational waves, why polluting ships aren't all bad, and how to use games to see the future...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDITOR'S CHOICE

 

 

 

 

Valerie Jamieson, features editor

Cosmic clocks: Relativity's final test Pulsars tick with absolute regularity. So if these stellar corpses' timekeeping is off, something must be warping space-time – and that something could put Einstein's theories to their sternest test...MORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOP STORIES

 

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Are Venus and Earth in a long-distance relationship?

Algae's solar electrons hijacked to steal power

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Levitate cancer cells for rapid 3D tissue

Could moon rocket demise bring space shuttle reprieve?

Anti-vaccine autism campaigners lose court battle

Innovation: Sending botnets the way of smallpox

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Window shopping for alternate realities

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FEATURES

The predictioneer: Using games to see the future

The CIA says Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's political predictions come true 90 per cent of the time. So how does he do it?

Bugs beware: we're gunning for your genes

Genetic insecticides promise to pick off pests – even cockroaches – species by species while leaving all other animals unharmed

Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

Get enough of the right brain cells to talk about the same thing, and out pops a conscious thought

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