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Engine strip-downs establish safe volcanic ash levels
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 19:44)
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After saying that no level of volcanic ash was safe to fly through, UK authorities have now decreed some parts of the cloud are navigable
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Maxed out: How much can we remember?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 17:00)
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Chao Lu has accurately recited 67,890 digits of pi from memory? but even that only hints at the brain's true capacity
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Maxed out: How long could you survive a vacuum?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 16:00)
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It's every astronaut's worst nightmare? but does losing pressure really mean your head will explode?
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UK university ordered to give data to climate sceptic
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 2:01)
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Queens University Belfast must accept a freedom-of-information request for its tree-ring data from an amateur climate analyst and climate sceptic
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Today on New Scientist: 20 April 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 2:00)
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All today's stories from newscientist.com at a glance, including: how to mint quantum money, the black hearts of neutron stars, and what it means if your fetus kicks a lot
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Brain training gains modest outside the mind gym
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 2:00)
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People who played "mind-boosting" games made the same modest cognitive gains as those who spent a similar amount of time surfing the web
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Sense of smell makes flies' time fly
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 1:32)
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Female flies deprived of the ability to smell food outlive their peers, suggesting that smells may be linked to the ageing process in people too
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Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll - and tanning salons
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 1:30)
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A growing body of research suggests that some people who regularly use tanning salons show behaviours linked to addiction, says Kate McAlpine
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Rats on junk food pass cancer down the generations
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 1:25)
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Feeding pregnant rats a fatty diet puts even granddaughters at greater risk of breast cancer
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Can we fly safely through volcanic ash?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-4-21 1:14)
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Aero engine makers can't or won't say how much ash is dangerous, while a physicist who's made an in-flight ash detector can't get funding to test it
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