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Mom and dad, stop stifling me - it's damaging my brain
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-11 20:35)
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Overprotective parents don't just limit their children's freedom– they may also slow brain growth in an area linked to mental illness
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Mars glacier lubricant could fuel rockets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-10 1:41)
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The ice at the planet's north pole may be moving on a bed of salty sludge, which one day could be handy for fuel
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Decision-makers betrayed by their wide eyes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-10 1:27)
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When people make a decision, their pupils dilate? a cue that could betray intentions, or even converse with people with locked-in syndrome
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Dyson helps to fill Tory policy vacuum
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-10 0:10)
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At last we have a glimpse of what is going through the mind of the Conservative party, thanks to a report from the industrial designer James Dyson
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How could boozing help you lose weight?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-10 0:07)
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A report suggests that women who drink moderately are less likely to pile on the pounds– what does the study really mean, asks Jessica Hamzelou
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Extermination in paradise
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-9 22:00)
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Rats have long wreaked bloody devastation in the wildlife haven of South Georgia? now conservationists are planning brutal retaliation
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Nanotube cuff is 'solar cell' for exhaust pipes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-9 21:54)
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A new material based on nanotubes matches the efficiency of solar cells– but scavenges power from heat leaking from hot pipes, not sunlight
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Why chameleons are the only lizards that eat breakfast
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-9 21:28)
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High-speed video images show the lizards can catch prey with their rubber band-like tongues equally well whether their body temperature is a cool 15°C or a warmer 35 °C
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Chile quake moved a city by three metres
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-9 21:15)
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile moved the city of Concepción by around 3 metres, says Richard Fisher
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Did 'midwife molecule' assemble first life on Earth?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-3-9 19:59)
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A previously unrecognised molecule, similar to a type found in meteorites, may have helped the first biomolecules assemble from their building blocks
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