High Court backs campaign to fund preventative AIDS drug on NHS
A leading AIDS charity has won a High Court battle over whether a preventative treatment for HIV which charities say is a "game-changer" can legally be funded by the NHS (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Pregnant women travel warning as Florida Zika cases rise to 14
Following 10 further cases of Zika thought to be contracted in Florida, pregnant women have now been told to avoid a so-called “transmission area” in Miami (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
The art of climate change impresses but doesn ’ t go down a storm
A weather and climate-themed exhibition in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, does everything but bring home the scariness of global warming, finds Sjef van Gaalen (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
The Pandora Effect: Why curiosity usually beats common sense
Research shows that we just can ’t help ourselves and find it hard to curb our curiosity – even when it’s better that we do (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
US police use machine learning to curb their own violence
With US policing in the spotlight, the police are turning to AI to predict which officers are at risk of cracking under stress (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
California ’s wildfires blaze on as communities evacuate
A massive wildfire in California continues to grow in several areas and to force evacuations of people and their animals (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Ocean-cleaning sea bins will gobble up plastic waste to recycle
Bins designed to suck up debris floating on the sea are in the final stages of testing, shame they won ’t make it to Rio in time to clean up dirty waters at the Olympics (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Now you see me: true invisibility cloak impossible to build
New calculations say an invisibility cloak would only work for a tiny sliver of light, and would make all other wavelengths grow brighter (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Autoimmune diseases may be side effect of a strong immune system
We finally have evidence from human studies that disorders like lupus could be a by-product of being well protected against other diseases (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Inbreeding has destroyed the English bulldog ’s genetic diversity
Decades of extreme selection and inbreeding mean there is little genetic variation left to save the English bulldog from its many severe health problems (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 29, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Why Hinkley Point is a nuclear folly of Titanic proportions
The French firm EDF has approved plans for a massive nuclear reactor in the UK, but the UK government is hesitating. Let ’s hope it scuppers the project, says Michael Le Page (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 28, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Desk job death risk is eliminated by an hour ’ s walk or cycle
People who spend eight or more hours sitting a day are 60 per cent more likely to die prematurely – but doing moderate exercise counteracts this risk (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Spiky new ant species is named after Game of Thrones dragons
Two newly named species of ant from New Guinea have big spines behind their necks that are full of muscle, which could help supporting their giant heads (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Red wolf may lose endangered status because it ’ s just a hybrid
Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Done right, seabed mining could be environmentally friendly
The world is on the brink of exploiting marine mineral deposits but a legislative vacuum could lead to a destructive free-for-all (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 27, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
