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Bendy battery gives smart fabrics a charge
A flexible battery that can be woven unobtrusively into fabrics could one day provide electricity for your gadgets
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Silver packs a punch as chemotherapy drug
Compounds of silver are as effective against breast and colon cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug and may result in fewer side effects
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Asteroid orbits modelled in a single atom
The model of atoms as mini solar systems was supplanted by quantum fuzziness – now atoms have been forced to act more like the classical systems
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Astrophile: Pinball planets get wild, deadly ride
Planets orbiting one star in a stellar pair could get bounced from star to star repeatedly – until they fall into the great beyond
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Today on New Scientist: 3 February 2012
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: high time to welcome the friendly drones and malaria may kill far more people than we thought
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Tiny volcanic moon controls Jupiter's auroras
Stuff spewed out of Io's hyperactive volcanoes make the rings of auroral light on Jupiter's poles grow and shrink
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How's your willpower? Take our survey and find out
Do you have the willpower to resist our survey? Take it and the results will be analysed by Roy F. Baumeister to check your self-control
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Double-sided touchscreen changes when you fold it
A projection-based touchpad demonstrates the wide range of uses for a foldable touchscreen that can act like an iPad, or a book
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Brain-eavesdropping tech can't steal your thoughts
Mind-reading technology notwithstanding, there is no prospect of anyone looking inside your skull without your consent
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High time to welcome the friendly drones
Attempts to fly drones in civilian airspace are a classic example of an irresistible force (innovation) meeting an immovable object (the law)
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Designs for eradicating medical mistakes
An exhibition at London’s Hunterian museum demonstrates how good design can combat human errors in the hospital.
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Civilian drones to fill the skies after law shake-up
Law changes mean uncrewed aerial vehicles aren't just for the military any more – civilian uses are taking off, too
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Malaria may kill far more people than we thought
Models suggest that malaria kills eight times as many adults in Africa as the World Health Organization estimates
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Spacecraft probes gas cloud swaddling the solar system
A cloud of interstellar matter envelops the solar system – new observations reveal just how alien it is
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Slow graphene down, speed computers up
Graphene is hailed for its astonishing conductivity but a way to kill this easy flow of electrons brings superfast computers closer
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Visualization Challenge winners show spectacular science
The oniony layers of an eyeball and the crevices of a new material are among the winners of the 2011 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
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