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Mental muscle: six ways to boost your brain
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-4 16:00)
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Brain training games won't make you smarter? but a dose of blue light or an electrical shock just might
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The slippery slope to obesity
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-3 20:00)
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Reward centres in the brain become less responsive as people gain weight causing them to eat more, reducing the reward response still further
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Homebrew technology: Love letter meets jewellery
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-3 19:00)
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A device that generates a wire representation of the spoken word performs double duty as a nifty jewellery maker
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Cosmic accidents: The certainty of chance
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-3 18:00)
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Tiny changes at the beginning make big differences in the end. That's why our existence is perilously perched on a great pyramid of trivia
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Homebrew technology: The $100 airplane
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 21:00)
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With some scrap materials, a few cheap electronics and a bit of improvisation, even a child can build a $100 aircraft
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Artificial fertility treatments create a sex bias
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 20:00)
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Fertility treatments alter the natural sex ratio, with IVF more likely to produce boys while ICSI favours girls
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Anyone can dupe biometric scanner
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 19:00)
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Natural changes in the human body may leave biometrics systems inherently fallible? something their manufacturers will have to accept
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Cosmic accidents: Inventing language, the easy way
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 18:00)
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Fresh pastures meant a cosier life for early humans? if they hadn't, we would never have loosened up enough to learn to speak
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Cosmic accidents: Killer asteroid with a silver lining
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 2:30)
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A 10-kilometre-wide rock did for the dinosaurs, but smashed open a window of opportunity for unimpressive little animals called mammals
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Today on New Scientist: 1 October 2010
from New Scientist - Online News
(2010-10-2 2:00)
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All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: how to recruit a smart team, homebrew technology, Facebook movie, 3D without glasses, and more
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