I was there at Ebola ’ s bloody beginning
Forty years ago, Peter Piot raced to the scene of an outbreak of an unknown deadly disease. What he discovered gave him his life's purpose (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Meet the robot champion being house-trained in a Korean lab
What's next for the winner of the world's toughest robot challenge? Hal Hodson catches up with last year's DARPA Challenge star (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Baidu uses millions of users ’ location data to make predictions
The Chinese search giant has analysed vast amounts of phone location data to monitor employment, consumer behaviour, and even Apple sales (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Let ’ s ditch the idea that only home-cooked food is good for kids
Kids' ready meals fared well compared with home-cooked in a new study – another reason to stop shaming mums who buy convenience foods, says Anthony Warner (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Stitching a drone ’s view of the world into 3D maps as it flies
Combining multiple images from a drone-mounted camera gives highly detailed models of the ground – and this can now be done in real time (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Stitching a drone’s view of the world into 3D maps as it flies
Combining multiple images from a drone-mounted camera gives highly detailed models of the ground – and this can now be done in real time (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Menopause reversal restores periods and produces fertile eggs
Women who have already passed through the menopause may be able to have children following a blood treatment usually used to heal wounds (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Internet 3.0: How we take back control from the giants
Monster companies run the internet and gorge on our data. But what if we abolished the server farms and ran it ourselves? (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics
Sets of superatoms have been linked up to make molecules for the first time – these could be the building blocks for new kinds of magnetic or conductive materials (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Boozy primates seek out nectar with the highest alcohol content
Aye-ayes and a slow loris preferred artificial nectar with more booze in lab tests, suggesting that tippling is an ancient strategy for primates (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
UK ’s £1 billion cut to carbon storage could cost £30 billion
The government cancelled its support for carbon capture and storage technology last year, without which, the costs of meeting its climate targets will skyrocket (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
UK’s £1 billion cut to carbon storage could cost £30 billion
The government cancelled its support for carbon capture and storage technology last year, without which, the costs of meeting its climate targets will skyrocket (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Dingo cannibalism makes for a dog-eat-dog world in Australia
Australia’s wild dogs have been caught on camera for the first time savaging dead dingoes, a rare case of cannibalism unprovoked by hunger (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: biology Source Type: research
Next-gen Mars orbiters to help human missions become more real
NASA has funded studies to investigate how new orbiter spacecraft can best serve a human ground crew on Mars for a potential mission in the 2020s (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Humans decimating the diversity of life should worry us all
A global limit set for safe biodiversity loss may be a blunt tool, but we still need to worry about breaching it far and wide says Georgina Mace (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - July 19, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
