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US reserves of rare earth elements assessed for first time
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 5:58)
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The US has 13 million tonnes of rare earth elements but it would take years to begin to extract them, suggests the first detailed report on the country's supply
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People powered bike pumps out poo
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 5:30)
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Handling human waste in poor, overcrowded slums is a major public health problem– enter the sewage cycle
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A dust storm in the unlikeliest of places
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 3:10)
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NASA's Terra satellite has snapped a dust storm sweeping across the Gulf of Alaska
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Today on New Scientist: 19 November 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: the first planet from another galaxy, the truth about full-body scans and a new weird supersolid
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Extreme survival: The toughest beast in the world
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 2:45)
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What shrugs off lethal gamma rays, temperatures close to absolute zero, the vacuum of space, unearthly pressure and 120 years without water? (full text available to subscribers)
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Vikings brought first native American to Europe
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 2:26)
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DNA and geneaological records of native Icelanders reveal that an Amerindian woman may have been the first native American to set foot in Europe
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Brian Marsden, the man who made asteroids sexy, dies
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 2:15)
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The longtime head of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center calculated the orbits of thousands of asteroids and comets
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Truth in the time of cholera
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 1:29)
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The United Nations doesn't want to be blamed for the cholera outbreak in Haiti– but what could it have done to avoid such accusations?
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Rosalind Franklin and sexism in the theatre of science
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-20 0:00)
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Named after Rosalind Franklin's breakthrough X-ray of DNA, the play Photograph 51 does little to resolve arguments about how much credit she is due
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Red wine packed with antidiabetes compounds
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-19 23:54)
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Compounds in red wine target the same receptor as a common diabetes drug– and do a better job of it in lab tests
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