Forest flying takes drone swarms to places once off limits
For drone swarms, forests are the ultimate challenge. Avoiding trees and shrubs while keeping formation shows they could tackle almost any obstacle course (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol
Urban living means plentiful fruit trees and many sugary snacks for Colombia ’s tamarin monkeys – but they pay the price for this unhealthy diet (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies
NASA's greatest telescope has turned its eye on a distant patch of the universe, revealing a gaggle of galaxies, some of which date back to 1 billion years after the big bang (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
AI needs oversight – time to set standards for autonomous tech
Questions are being asked about the safety of autonomous systems in cars, robots and drones. We need a regulator for the AI era, says Paul Marks (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Eating each other ’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine
The odd feeding behaviour may even help keep the young insects together in a primitive form of social living (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: biology evolution Source Type: research
The long scientific voyage of Tudor warship the Mary Rose
Henry VIII’s favourite warship is on view again, and it’s been a long battle to get to a point where people can breathe the same air as the ship’s ancient timbers (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises
After a hot day, some honeybees become living water tanks – they store water in their gut in anticipation of demand from their sisters (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Cosmological conceits blossom under Finland ’ s midnight sun
Finland's first cosmologically minded art exhibition traces the fault line between our scientific understanding of the world and our love of it (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Who should we believe when it comes to fertility?
Difficult choices over when to start a family are not made any easier by conflicting signals from doctors and fertility clinics (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Feedback: Weak-handed Millennials struggling to get a grip
Plus why a dog bowl makes a great hat, patriotic Italian scientists rehabilitate pasta, the war on skin, chemical-free farming with Cerys Matthews and more (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Brain training game for troops tackles effects of combat trauma
The Israeli army has announced that by the end of the year its soldiers will play a game designed to prevent PTSD as part of their combat training (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer
For the first time, researchers are able to extend the lifetime of a quantum bit, or qubit, using error correction – an essential step to useful quantum computers (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
One part of Antarctica has been cooling since 1998 – here’s why
The once fast-warming Antarctic Peninsula has cooled over the past 18 years thanks to shifting winds – but global warming will soon override their effect (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Self-destructing bacteria are engineered to kill cancer cells
Harnessing Salmonella strains that can live without oxygen could provide a much-needed weapon against the parts of a tumour that are hardest to attack (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: health medicine Source Type: research
We took his-and-hers fertility tests – this is what it was like
Should couples curious to know the implications of postponing parenthood take a fertility test? Jessica Hamzelou and her boyfriend tried one to find out (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
