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Today on New Scientist: 6 March 2013

Don't let US knee-jerk secrecy slow down space flight

Government red tape threatens to deprive the fledgling space-flight community of important technical insights

Salty food exacerbates multiple sclerosis in mice

If a high-salt diet also aggravates autoimmune diseases in humans, the discovery may lead to new ways to control conditions such as psoriasis

Astrophile: Glistening cloud acts as cosmic centimetre

Eclipsing stars have yielded the best measurement yet of the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, the first rung on the cosmic distance ladder

Fire destroys the City of Science in Naples, Italy

Born to revive an old industrial site and to spread scientific culture in Italy, the City of Science may have been destroyed by Italian Camorra

Need to get fit? Try running from zombies

The undead could soon be helping the living for the British National Health Service if an app in development for doctors takes off

Old dog tricks: The survival of the friendliest

The wolves bold enough to approach humans and eat our scraps evolved into dogs - did we too "self-domesticate", asks evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare

Shy Higgs boson continues to vex particle hunters

The latest results from CERN still don't say whether the boson discovered there is the Higgs predicted by theory, or something more surprising

The father of all men is 340,000 years old

We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years ? but one African American man has broken the mould

Trafficking now the greatest threat to wild apes

Tourist entertainment and private collectors are now a greater threat to wild apes than deforestation and bushmeat poachers

Sucking salamander uses jaw power to bend prey

Watch a giant salamander engulf a roach, showing how amphibian jaws evolved the ability to suck

Solve four big problems to get people to Mars by 2018

Inspiration Mars has identified four challenges standing between them and the Red Planet - whatever happens, the effort will aid future deep space missions

Who needs sex? Six animals that cloned alone

A growing number of animals are turning out not to have had a father. Meet some of our favourites

Physics crunch: The dark void at cosmology's heart

Our established picture of the universe is supremely successful - maybe because most of it is completely made up, says Stephen Battersby

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