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Mystech: Well, I could have told you this! (New Scientist) Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected – men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight...
(New Scientist) A new analysis by physicists shows that if the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to destroy the English parliament and kill the King had succeeded, it would have taken a large part of central...
(New Scientist) The latest variant of a six-month old virus called Mimail appears to be being used as a double-pronged spammer’s tool, says a victim of the attack, the anti-spam company Spamhaus. The virus...
(New Scientist) An entirely new way of generating electricity has been discovered. The way it works is simple: squeeze water through fine pipelines and an electrical current flows. If the output can be increased,...
(New Scientist) Mysterious rock carvings engraved into strange shapes are baffling UK archaeologists. One resembles a heart, another a human footprint. Aron Mazel and Stan Beckensall, who stumbled across the unusual carvings close to...
