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Today on New Scientist: 14 May 2012

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the Majorana particle mystery, engineering lifelong romance and gadgets that work under your skin

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Dust rings not 'smoking gun' for planets after all

Sharp-edged rings of dust around stars are not necessarily carved by planets, as was thought, but can take shape on their own

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KERS comes under the microscope after F1 blaze

Did a fire that engulfed a Formula 1 garage start with a spark from the Kinetic Energy Recovery System?

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Bioluminescent bloom makes beach a magical minefield

A bloom of bioluminescent plankton on a Maldive beach: it doesn't get much better than this

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Gadgets work under your skin – but are you ready?

Everyday electronics have been implanted into human tissue, and they still worked. Soon we could become one with our electronics – if we can stomach it

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Evening Star's rare path across the sun

With the last transit of Venus of the 21st century weeks away, authors trace how this rare event sparked international scientific collaboration in 1761

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Love machine: Engineering lifelong romance

Divorce makes it look like we're outliving our capacity to love. But chemical tweaks might help keep love alive, say Julian Savulescu and Anders Sandberg (full text available to subscribers)

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DIY circuit turns your alphabet soup into a keyboard

An easy-to-use kit lets you turn anything into a computer key or mouse click – even food

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Truth of the matter: The Majorana particle mystery

Can a single entity be matter and antimatter at the same time? It looks like it, say Michael Brooks and Richard Webb (full text available to subscribers)

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'Solar panel' eye implant promises sight without wires

Tiny panels implanted in the eye could restore vision to the blind without the need for external power sources

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Americans would pay more for green energy

The American public would pay extra to get green electricity, but partisan politics means their elected representatives still won't adopt it

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Touch sensitivity is genetically linked to hearing

Impaired touch among deaf students indicates that some of the genes causing deafness may also dull finger sensitivity

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Font for digits lets numbers punch their weight

With FatFonts, the area of each digit is exactly proportional to its value, a system that could transform the art of data visualisation

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Acoustic graphene could act as a sonic cloak

The amazing electrical properties of graphene have inspired the creation of a perspex material with remarkable sound-channelling characteristics

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Scarecrow Mars rover takes spin in California desert

NASA's Curiosity rover, still en route for Mars, has an Earthly double with no computer brains. This week, scientists took it out for a trial run

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Today on New Scientist: 11 May 2012

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: snow snaps give you a better weather picture and ghostly glows mark violent deaths of stars

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Camera app and patent take on iPhone face recognition

Facial recognition is a computer-power-hungry task but it is finally starting to arrive on Apple's smartphone

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Antiviral drug backed for use in HIV prevention

The drug Truvada could soon be available to prevent people from catching HIV, following recommended approval by US health experts

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Zoologger: Bug evolved a self-propelling corkscrew

The marine bacterium Synechococcus has no flagellum to propel itself, but it still gets around thanks to a twisted rod inside its body

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Ghostly glows mark violent deaths of stars

Supernovae leave glowing embers behind – see some of the most beautiful remnants of exploding stars in our gallery

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