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Spin doctors: How PR trumps trust in modern medicine
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-28 23:38)
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In White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the dark side of medicine, Carl Elliott reveals the tactics the pharmaceuticals industry uses to boost profits
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Did volcanoes really kill off the Neanderthals?
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-28 22:43)
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Humanity's closest cousins were wiped out by volcanic eruptions, according to a new study– but there is a host of other possible explanations
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Cosmic accidents: 10 lucky breaks for humanity
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-27 19:03)
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We wouldn't be here without a chain of coincidences that's led from the big bang to our big brains? taking in Martian attack and dino doom along the way
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A little aspirin may prevent bowel cancer
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-26 18:00)
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Small doses of aspirin may be as effective as higher doses at preventing bowel cancer, with less risk of side effects
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Kilimanjaro's vanishing ice due to tree-felling
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-25 18:00)
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Local deforestation could partly explain why the ice cap on Africa's highest peak is vanishing fast
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Today on New Scientist: 24 September 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-25 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com at a glance, including: crunch time for the Gulf oyster fisheries, spotting organ transplant rejection, and how to get older with a ladder
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Aurora saturnalis: halos at the poles of the ringed planet
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-24 23:50)
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Saturn was already the solar system's undisputed lord of the rings. Now newly processed images from the Cassini spacecraft are revealing previously unseen halos above the planet's poles
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Out-of-this-world proposal for solar wind power
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-24 22:00)
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The world's energy needs could be met 100 billion times over using a satellite to harness the solar wind– but only if we can figure out how to focus
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Brain-hacking art: Getting your wires crossed
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-24 21:42)
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What's the colour of a trumpet blast? David Hockney, Wassily Kandinsky and other synaesthetes could tell you
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Courgettes, judo throws and bear attacks on humans
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-9-24 21:13)
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As the story of a Montana woman throwing a courgette at a grizzly shows, bear stories capture the public imagination, says Rowan Hooper
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