New Scientist headlines

Bring dingoes back to stop species extinction

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn10432&feedId=online-news_rss20

Bizarrely, reintroducing Australia's top natural predator could improve the survival of smaller marsupial species that they often prey on

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Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=mg19225764.900&feedId=online-news_rss20

The plesiosaur has been described as a snake threaded through the body of a turtle, and some imaginative people think there's one living in Scotland

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Mate like crazy and let the sperm fight it out

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=mg19225763.800&feedId=online-news_rss20

Have sex and die: that's the lot of a shrew-like marsupial that can't afford to waste time picking out the ideal mate but produces great offspring all the same

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The quantum world is about to get bigger

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=mg19225764.400&feedId=online-news_rss20

A new technique will allow objects big enough to be seen with the naked eye to exist in two places at once

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Global survey puts reproductive health on the map

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn10412&feedId=online-news_rss20

Marriage may be good for your sex life, but religion could harm your health, say reproductive health experts in the first global survey of sexual behaviour

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Brain defect may cause 50% of cot deaths

Structural abnormalities in a baby's brainstem may lie behind about half the cases of sudden infant death syndrome, new research reveals

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Alexandre Dumas

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."

The journey continues

If you have enough patience, you can film the moment when a squabble breaks out in an Antarctic penguin colony and they collectively 'exhale' warm air.
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