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Today on New Scientist: 25 April 2013

Quantum effects get a weirdness scale
A ranking system for quantum effects gives us a sense of how close ? or not ? we are to realising Schr?dinger's cat

Mindscapes: The woman who was dropped into her body
Depersonalisation disorder ? in which your memories feel alien and your world unreal ? is less rare than you might think. We speak to someone who has it

Zoologger: The rat with two faces
The African ice rat is both friend and foe to its companions ? cooperative when underground in a burrow, but nasty once they go outside

Kinect plus projector makes anything a remote controlMovie Camera
A combination of depth cameras and projectors called WorldKit lets you create zappers for TVs, room lighting, and more, on any bit of household furniture

A portrait of neon hedgehogs in a nanosphere garden
An award-winning image of brightly coloured microscopic pom-poms reveals how a novel material affects crystal growth

Humans may have reached the Americas 22,000 years ago
A controversial find of stone tools in Brazil suggests that humans somehow reached the Americas at the height of the last ice age

Stress has unexpected health benefits ? sometimes
Chronic stress can increase our risk of age-related diseases, but in the right conditions a little stress can protect against the effects of ageing

Oases of cool: Taking the heat out of urban living
Can new technology and astute planning keep our cities cool in the face of global warming? Kat Austen investigates the best ideas

Water worlds bring us closer to finding Earth's twin
A pair of planets roughly the size of Earth are adding to the diversity of life-friendly worlds we may find across the galaxy

Voice-based web access helps illiterate get online
A new internet system is giving a voice to people in Africa who cannot read or write or who lack a computer

Ice-bound hunter sees first hint of cosmic neutrinos
Two high-energy particles glimpsed by the IceCube neutrino detector may be opening the door on a new way of exploring the universe

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