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'Swirl tubes' make quiet, efficient jet planes
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 13:02)
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A new patent claims that by creating a vortex while flying and during landing, planes can be made quieter and more fuel-efficient.
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Mystery 'missile' likely a jet contrail, says expert
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 5:26)
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An optical illusion probably caused an approaching plane to look like a rising missile to a California helicopter crew, says an astronomer
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Today on New Scientist: 9 November 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 3:00)
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All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: why we should axe fossil fuel subsidies, 115 years of X-rays and gender-bending cannabis compounds
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Follow that cab! Racing Google Maps on city streets
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 3:00)
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Experienced cabbies know short cuts to avoid jams at rush hour– soon Microsoft Bing map users could benefit from their knowledge
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French export drive threatens to crush Europe's eels
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 1:53)
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Tiny, slimy and pricey, glass eels are in trouble. A French move to maintain exports to China last week risks crippling efforts to restock rivers
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Axe fossil fuel subsidies to stop climate change
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 1:53)
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If governments want to cut greenhouse gas emissions and power society with renewable energy, they should stop subsidising fossil fuel use
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Strange matter flow suggests inflation was incomplete
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 1:40)
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New evidence for a mysterious flow of matter through the universe could change our view of the rapid expansion that occurred just after the big bang
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All-seeing eye for CCTV surveillance
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 1:35)
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The technology identifies and isolates any movement, before playing all events back simultaneously
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The shrinking watery heart of Central Asia
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-10 1:21)
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The heart-shaped Small Aral Sea nestles amid the white salt plains of the Aralkum Desert in Kazakhstan
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Cannabis compounds make newborn females more masculine
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-11-9 5:00)
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Activating cannabis receptors in newborn female rats make them play like males and have more masculine brains
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