How the size and shape of your glass affects how much you drink
You drink more slowly from a straight glass than a curved one, but more quickly from a large glass than a small one – effects your local pub might by exploiting (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Shampoo bottles get nano-makeover to squeeze out every drop
Wash and go: Plastic embedded with silica molecules repels sludgy hair products so that every last blob slides out of the bottle, even without you shaking it
(Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Watch a baby sea turtle being hypnotised so we can weigh it
Baby sea turtles won’t stay still long enough for conservation biologists to weigh and measure them. Now we have a way to stop them squirming – hypnotise them (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Could a vast rubber boom clean up tonnes of ocean plastic?
A 100-metre prototype boom is being tested in the North Sea as part of an unproven scheme to tackle the gyres of plastic waste in the Pacific (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Tourists pick up antibiotic-resistance genes in just two days
When you travel to countries such as South Korea, India and China, it takes just days for your gut flora to acquire genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Who needs water? Dry volcanic vents more alive than wet soil
High up a Chilean volcano, there's more microbial diversity in bone-dry vents than icy patches - which could alter our search for life out in the solar system (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 24, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Hubble spots a new long-lived storm raging on Neptune
Neptune is known for its Great Dark Spot, but a new blemish appeared last summer and has been roiling ever since (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: solar system space Source Type: research
Save the driver or pedestrian? Such robot car dilemmas are folly
Should autonomous cars sacrifice those inside to save more lives outside in a crash? That is a misleadingly simple dilemma, warns Hal Hodson (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Stop vets offering homeopathy – placebo doesn’t work for pets
Homeopathy has no effect beyond placebo and is pointless in animal medicine, so let's end its use by those vets who still offer it, says Danny Chambers (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
IKEA of energy delivers clean, green solar power-plant in a box
A start-up offering flat-packed solar generators is hoping to give a boost to poor villages off the grid (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Will bad weather have an impact on today’s EU referendum vote?
It's a commonly held belief that bad weather can reduce voter turnout, so does today's rain mean the UK is heading for Brexit? (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: London psycholo Source Type: research
Listen to secrets of a honeybee hive in Kew’s latest sculpture
An ingenious new installation at London’s Kew Gardens offers visitors a novel way to experience life inside the hive – and commune with nature (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 23, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits
Carlo Rovelli reflects on why time is fundamentally human, and how physics is like music – you don't have to be able to create it to appreciate it (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 22, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
One man’s little slice of nature is a historical microcosm
Richard Fortey bought 4 acres of wooded wonderland and treats us to a diary of its natural and local history, inhabitants and future – even a few recipes (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 22, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Feedback: Noel Edmonds zapped over electropad cancer claims
Plus aliens appear over tax office, the half-life of teaspoons, 131 flavours of frog, dining out of nappies, ancient bog butter, and more (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - June 22, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
