Poll: Do you listen to movies or TV over headphones?

I suppose it's still a fair assumption that more people listen to music than movies with headphones, but there has to be a growing audience listening to movies, TV shows, and YouTube videos via their headphones. Thanks to the booming popularity of tablets, might the ratio of movies-to-music listening time be moving away from music? Or not?I watch a lot of movies at home with headphones on. They present...

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Space Pictures This Week: Sun Dragon, Celestial Seagull

Solar DragonImage courtesy SDO/NASAResembling a dragon's tail, remnants of a solar filament strain to escape the sun's gravity in an image released this week by NASA's Solar Dynamics...

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Northeast Digs Out After Blizzard

A fierce winter storm brought blizzard conditions and hurricane force winds as the anticipated snowstorm descended across much of the Northeast overnight.By early Saturday morning, 650,000 homes and businesses were without power and at least five deaths were being blamed on the storm, three in Canada, one in New York and one in Connecticut, The Associated Press reported.The...

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Today on New Scientist: 8 February 2013

Webcam and CCTV security flaw shows us to prying eyes A networking loophole has made it easy to have a peek at what everyone else is doing by accessing cameras connected to the internetWorld of life's jewelled beauty in new museum shrine The latest additions to a London zoology museum would all fit in a wardrobe: vintage glass microscope slides that form a fascinating, dazzling tribute to lifeSleep...

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EU agrees historic cut to budget after marathon talks

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders agreed to cut back the bloc's budget for the first time in six decades on Friday after marathon all-night talks driven by sharp differences over priorities for the next seven years."Deal done!" summit chair and EU President Herman Van Rompuy said on Twitter after more than 24 hours of tough talks between the bloc's 27 heads of state and government."There's...

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Friday Poll: Which 'Star Wars' character should get the first spin-off film?

Will your favorite character get a spin-off?(Credit:Lucasfilm)First, Disney bought Lucasfilm and "Star Wars" fans everywhere had mixed feelings. Then, a rumor became reality as J.J Abrams signed on to direct the next "Star Wars" movie. Now, almost everybody is feeling hopeful about the future of the franchise. To put a cherry on the sci-fi sundae, we've now been told that a series of character spin-off...

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Debate Continues: Did Your Seafood Feel Pain?

Part of our weekly "In Focus" series—stepping back, looking closer.Chefs have been grappling with the question for years: What's the best way to humanely kill a lobster?Some cooks recommend tucking the invertebrate into the freezer for an hour, while others prefer quickly stabbing it behind the eyes. For the serious seafood gourmand, there are even stun devices that are advertised as the...

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Rescued Ethan Spends Birthday With SWAT Heroes

As a beaming 6-year-old Ethan said "cheese" for photos and played with toy cars at his birthday party, there were no immediate signs of the turmoil the young boy had endured just days earlier.The boy, identified only as Ethan, was held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama. He was physically unharmed after Jimmy Lee Dykes kidnapped him from a school bus and held...

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Today on New Scientist: 7 February 2013

Light-taming window conjures Turing's image Watch how a surface can be manipulated to cast images, allowing designers to paint with lightNew map pinpoints cities to avoid as sea levels rise Sydney, Tokyo and Buenos Aires are in for some of the biggest sea-level rises by 2100, finds one of the most comprehensive predictions to dateTour of the body hardly gets under the skin Anatomies by Hugh...

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War crimes court wants Gaddafi spy chief handed over

THE HAGUE: International Criminal Court judges on Thursday demanded Libya hand over Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief Abdullah Senussi to face charges of crimes against humanity.The latest broadside in the legal tug-of-war between The Hague-based ICC and Tripoli over where Senussi and Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam should be tried repeated a demand for Senussi to be handed over.The ICC "orders...

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