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Today on New Scientist: 15 March 2013

Zoologger: The fish with a chemical invisibility cloak

Pirate perch hide behind a unique chemical camouflage that makes all other animals unable to smell them

Astrophile: Dizzy dwarf star will spin itself to death

A wildly spinning white dwarf star could be doomed to a spectacular end in a few million years' time

Donor livers kept alive outside the body for 24 hours

Two livers have been successfully transplanted into people after being kept alive in a device that mimics the body

Hours after death, we can still bring people back

Resuscitation specialist Sam Parnia believes we can bring many more people back to life after they die - it's just a matter of training and equipment

Robotic swim buddy snaps your stroke from below

Swimoid glides underneath you, capturing images of your breaststroke and makes laps less boring

The role of luck in a eureka moment

Science keeps quiet about luck, but discovery relies on it - and we can generate more by bringing creative ideas from all quarters into the mix

Threatwatch: The cost of drugs for a dead disease

Does the US need an expensive new drug for smallpox - which was eradicated in 1980? Or could the money be better spent on more immediate dangers?

Samsung's new Galaxy goes beyond the touchscreen

Scrolling via facial tilt recognition is the latest addition to smartphone functionality, care of Samsung's launch of its Galaxy S 4 phone

Friday Illusion: Mystery of the colour-changing banana

A prize for the first person to figure out why a filter affects a banana's colour in different ways

Feedback: Right is wrong

Wind farm paranoia, DNA-free food, to "inthinity" and beyond, and more

14th-century plague bodies unearthed at London station

Archaeologists working on London's new Crossrail underground railway have discovered a lost medieval plague burial ground

More HIV 'cured': first a baby, now 14 adults

A small group of adults given rapid drug treatment after HIV infection no longer need drugs to keep the virus in check

Lowly aspirin fights deadly skin cancer in women

Just by taking aspirin twice a week women can signficantly reduce their risk of melanoma, the most dangerous kind of skin cancer

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