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Today on New Scientist: 21 March 2013

Anti-hunting group hires 'ethical' surveillance drone

A drone-hire organisation wants to help conservationists and animal welfare groups gather evidence - but pro-hunt groups doubt they'll succeed

The body: Can you eat yourself to death?

What happens when you take "all you can eat" all too literally - and how do competitive eaters stretch the limits of their stomachs?

String theorist wins $3 million physics prize

The most lucrative prize in physics has this year been given to Alexander Polyakov, in part for work to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity

Design Oscars: and the nominations are...

Visit London's Design Museum to check out the innovative nominations for its Designs of the Year awards

Planck shows almost perfect cosmos - plus axis of evil

The best map yet of the cosmic microwave background, from ESA's Planck satellite, confirms our view of the early universe but strange anomalies remain

Making your own phone is easier than you might think

Lisa Grossman builds a handcrafted cellphone using widely available parts and online instructions

Apollo moon mission engines rise from the ocean floor

Rockets that sent people to the moon have just been pulled from the bottom of the sea as part of an effort led by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos

US patent change angers inventors

Small inventors fear the move to "first to file" will only help mega corporations invent around their ideas and patent first

Women abused as children likelier to bear autistic child

A disturbing new dimension is added to the heated debate over autism's underlying causes, following a study of thousands of women in the US

World's thinnest endoscope is width of a human hair

The tiny light source can be used to investigate parts of the body that are just a third of the diameter of a red blood cell

Architecture between fiction and reality

The visionary architecture of Lebbeus Woods is more potent than science fiction because it comes with blueprints and models

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