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Today on New Scientist: 14 October 2011

What it means to donate your brain

Geographer Bronwyn Parry and artist Ania Dabrowska explore brain donation in the Mind Over Matter project

Smart sensors stop flickering wind turbines

An algorithm that determines when annoying shadows from wind turbines reach residential areas could end complaints of "shadow flicker"

Friday Illusion: Trippy dots do the wave

Watch a static pattern dance before your eyes when you fix your gaze on a moving object

Green Machine: Electric cars to get universal charger

Drivers won't need to worry about finding a compatible recharging point, with seven major manufacturers agreeing on a standard

Clean air fixes cold poles in model of ancient climate

Computers can at last model extremely hot climates of the past - the trick is cleaning out modern air pollution

Artificial crystals get their own textbook laws

An alternative chemistry of DNA-bonded nanoparticles, rather than chemically bonded atoms, could lead to materials with novel properties

Studio portrait of big, brainy octopus

To show its true colours, a huge North Pacific giant octopus was photographed in a tank using strobe lighting

Green Machine: Towering factory will have humble needs

By building up instead of out, architects of the 24-storey edifice hope to save land and cut energy use in half compared to other factories

Improve miscarriage guidelines to prevent misdiagnosis

Guidelines on diagnosing miscarriage need updating in light of reports of women being told they have miscarried only to go on to have a healthy baby

Dolphin with prosthetic tail hits Hollywood

Inspired by the real-life story of a dolphin with an artificial fin, Dolphin Tale just manages to keep its head above the saccharine waters of its heavy-handed script

When will the 7 billionth human be born?

The UN is jumping the gun in declaring the world's population will reach 7 billion by the end of the month

Radiation in Tokyo not from Fukushima

Government officials say the radiation may be linked to old bottles found in underneath an abandoned house in a neighborhood of the city

Prostate screening does more harm than good in US

Preventive Services Task Force says screening for prostate-specific antigen "has no net benefit"

The real Greek tragedy may be the climate

Greece's debt crisis threatens more than the collapse of the euro and the European Union - it would also be a climate disaster, warns David Strahan

Feedback: The salmonella sniff myth

We boldly venture beyond the sell-by date, meet some sophisticated crabs, supplements that alter the very fabric of space-time, and more

App tracks ROSAT satellite's crash to Earth

Solar activity is bringing down a defunct space telescope sooner than anyone expected

Oldest artist's workshop in the world discovered

In a South African cave, really old masters used tools for making reddish-yellow paint 100,000 years ago, 40,000 years earlier than previous finds

Sickle cell disease cured by gene knock-out

Adult haemoglobin, but not the fetal kind, can spark sickle cell anaemia. Using gene-blocking to make the blood "young again" cures the condition in mice

Twisting artificial muscle fibre made with nanotubes

A yarn made of carbon nanotubes could power swimming nanobots

Pluto's rival is tinier but shinier than thought

Eris, the dwarf planet that got Pluto kicked out of the planet club, is actually no bigger than Pluto, new observations suggest - but it's blindingly bright

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