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Senin, 30 Juli 2012

Today on New Scientist: 30 July 2012

Quantum weirdness: Catching the ghost in the atom

Watch an animation that shows why the wave function may be part of the physical world and not just a mathematical formula

Ugandans urged to avoid contact as Ebola spreads

An outbreak of one of the world's most feared viruses has killed 14 people in Uganda's capital city

Mega ice avalanche on Saturn moon has liquid flow

Icy landslides on Saturn's weird moon Iapetus behave strangely, flowing like fluids for immense horizontal distances

An appeal for fairness in society

To tackle inequality we must first overcome our own biased belief that people deserve their position on the social ladder

High-tech clothes let fashionistas bare all

A wearable lie-detector dress and a frock that can turn transparent are some of the technologically enhanced clothing on show at an exhibition in Vienna

The battle of freedom and control in a networked world

Networked individualism is reshaping social interaction as we renegotiate the balance between the one and the many, say Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

A human guinea pig in the brown fat lab

See how our trim reporter Andy Coghlan helped obesity research by submitting to a battery of body scans and measurements - with no room for embarrassment

Robots move into the mining business

The dirty, back-breaking work of extracting minerals from the Earth is being taken over by machines

The age of inequality: The 1 per cent and the rest

Our special report investigates the 1 per cent who control so much of the world's wealth: who they are, how inequality evolved, and whether it really matters

Hairy sensors to give robots sensitive skin

A coating of hairy, electronic skin could soon help robots feel the slightest breath of air

Flaring black holes may solve cosmic ray puzzle

Swallowing stars might cause otherwise weak galactic black holes to have violent outbursts, generating spurts of high-energy rays

Chimps catch yawns from dominant males

Captive chimps are more likely to yawn back to a yawning male than a yawning female, a preference which may cause a group to act in step with its alpha males


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