Saturday, June 22, 2013

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Snail shell stripes reveal Irish origins
Say bonjour and dia duit to a snail that hitched a ride with the Stone Age humans who migrated from the south of France to Ireland

What a new jumbo particle reveals about extreme matter
A long-sought tetraquark may finally have surfaced, potentially providing insights into the make-up of the most exotic regions of the universe

Heed the evidence: Cops need more than common sense
Police tend to think that intuitive strategies are best for fighting crime, but they should be using research to discover what works ? and what doesn't

Learn to shake your new tail as a virtual animalMovie Camera
We can quickly learn to control an avatar in the form of an animal if our movements are mapped onto its digital representation

Virtual reality: Get your head in the game
The explosive popularity of the Oculus Rift headset has launched a revolution for virtual reality, promising to make it more immersive than ever

Why I've built a search engine that doesn't follow you
Revelations about governments' online snooping have been good news for Gabriel Weinberg, builder of DuckDuckGo ? a search engine that doesn't track its users

Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox
A new kind of wormhole may resolve whether you'd be crushed or burned if you fell in a black hole, which could in turn lead to a theory of quantum gravity

Virtual reality: It's time for garage inventors again
Palmer Luckey, the man driving the renaissance of virtual reality, started out with only his passion

Inside Fukushima: Draining a radioactive flood
Rob Gilhooly finds that groundwater influx is swelling the huge amounts of contaminated water that the Japanese nuclear power plant needs to dispose of

The battle to find a cure for every cancer is evolving
Evolutionary biology could help us outmanoeuvre the enormous genetic variation found within each tumour

Dreams on demand: Virtual reality finally delivers
Virtual reality is rising from the dead thanks to a start-up with global ambitions and crowdfunded technology to back them. Pleased to meet you, Oculus Rift

Cosmic preheating baked planets, stars and people
A new model bridges the gap between the cold, empty universe after inflation and the dense, hot soup that gave rise to all matter

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