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Why your brain flips over visual illusions What happens in your brain when you view illusions in which two separate images can be seen?
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Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs Cotton impregnated with silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes could provide a cheap and effective method of purifying water in remote locations
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Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable The fallout from the current mass extinction of life on Earth will be far from simple to predict
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Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found Theory says the Earth's magnetic field can't flip in just a few years, yet for the second time evidence has been found of it happening in the past
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Briefing: How bad is the new Gulf oil rig fire? Less than five months after the largest oil spill in US history, another fire has occurred on an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico
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Physicists divided over life extension for US collider A panel of physicists recommends keeping Fermilab's Tevatron collider alive for an extra three years, but others worry about collateral damage
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Space ribbon deployed to surf Earth's magnetic field Future spacecraft could change their orbits simply by unfurling electrically conducting tethers – Japan has now tested one in a suborbital mission
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Today on New Scientist: 2 September 2010 All today's stories on NewScientist.com including: the flaws in criminal profiling, a birds-eye view of hurricane Earl and weird water inside planets
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Instant Expert: The unseen universe There is more to the cosmos than meets the eye. Astrophysicist Michael Rowan-Robinson explores what invisible rays from radio to gamma have shown us
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A birds-eye view of hurricane Earl An astronaut on the International Space Station has captured a serene-looking view of hurricane Earl – but things aren't so calm down below
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