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Mars One plan to colonise red planet unrealistic, says leading supporter

24.02.2015 17:35
The budget and timeline for plans by a Dutch organisation to colonise Mars are highly unrealistic, one of the project’s most eminent supporters has suggested. Gerard ’t Hooft, a Dutch Nobel laureate and ambassador for Mars One, said he did not believe the mission could take off by 2024 as...

Artificial glacier could help Ladakh villagers adapt to climate change

24.02.2015 17:21
Villagers of the high desert of Ladakh in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state used to harvest bountiful crops of barley, wheat, fruits, and vegetables in summer. But for years the streams have run dry in spring, just when farmers needed water to sow seeds. They had water when it wasn’t needed during...

You dirty rat! Turns out giant gerbils were responsible for the Black Death

24.02.2015 17:18
Age: Immaterial. Just keep replacing them until your child is old enough to contemplate pet-death with equanimity. Appearance: Happily, interchangeable. Oh, gerbils! Cute little snuffly things, racing around their wheels and digging through their sawdust and lapping at their little bottles! So...

Speeding up the battle against slowing minds

24.02.2015 17:04
Christopher Devas has Alzheimer’s disease , the most common form of dementia. For his wife, Veronica, this not only means watching Alzheimer’s rob Christopher of his memory and identity, it also means watching their shared memories slip away. “Close couples are joint custodians of each other’s...

Monitoring Group Says ISIS Has Abducted 90 Christians in Syria

24.02.2015 16:55
Islamic State militants have abducted at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group that tracks violence in Syria said on Tuesday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out dawn raids on rural villages...

Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry

23.02.2015 16:23
A prominent academic and climate change denier’s work was funded almost entirely by the energy industry, receiving more than $1.2m from companies, lobby groups and oil billionaires over more than a decade, newly released documents show. Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the...

Urgent call for new drugs to treat causes of Parkinson’s

23.02.2015 16:20
Deryal Wood was 45 when she first began to suffer tremors in her hands. Her symptoms slowly worsened and she was diagnosed nine years ago as having early onset Parkinson’s disease. “I was given the drug L-dopa. The tremors disappeared,” she said. But the tremors returned a few years later and...

A fairground ride that reads your mind?

23.02.2015 16:16
A small and scholarly laboratory in north London is home to a very unusual chair. Its scarlet plastic bucket seat is suspended in the air on black hydraulic elbows, and coloured wires and pipes straggle around it like blood vessels. It is a mean-looking thing, but this uninviting piece...

There's no evidence e-cigarettes are as harmful as smoking

23.02.2015 16:12
In his recent ‘Comment is free’ piece Nash Riggins claims that vaping is just as dangerous as smoking, and expresses robust support for NHS Boards in Scotland who intend to ban the use of electronic cigarettes when their grounds go tobacco free in April. The reader might be left with...

Why reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain

23.02.2015 16:10
My son is 18 months old, and I’ve been reading books with him since he was born. I say “reading”, but I really mean “looking at” – not to mention grasping, dropping, throwing, cuddling, chewing, and everything else a tiny human being likes to do. Over the last six months, though, he has begun not...
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