Zika virus prompts increase in unsafe abortions in Latin America
Early signs suggest the fallout from Zika includes a rise in illegal, and unsafe abortions throughout Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 22, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
I smelled comet 67P’s deadly pong and lived to tell the tale
Researchers with ESA's Rosetta mission have commissioned a perfume that mimics the odour of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Jacob Aron shares his first sniff (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 22, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
AI just got a big boost in its ability to understand the news
A reading algorithm developed at Stanford just beat Google DeepMind’s accuracy by 10 per cent. Prepare for a world where you can ask AI about any text ever published (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 20, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
We now have the tech to fingerprint babies – but should we?
Babies can now have their fingerprints taken, which could help with vaccinations and finding missing children. But the technology makes some people uneasy (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 15, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock – and stays there
Carbon dioxide rapidly turns into solid carbonates when injected into basalt rocks. Done on a massive scale it could help limit climate change (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap
The ions could act as qubits in a quantum simulator to search for new properties of metals, or act as a quantum computer – if we can control them individually (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour
Two nearby supernovae explosions may have increased cancer rates and changed the behaviour of early humans - but that's a pretty big may (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Ancient enzyme resurrected from the ancestor of all bacteria
The reconstruction of an enzyme used by bacteria thought to have lived in a hot spring 3.4 billion years ago tells us they became complex earlier than thought (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Artificial dome world set for largest indoor weather experiment
A huge weathering experiment in the isolated ecosystem at Biosphere 2 in Arizona will aim to answer key questions about water and soil in the landscape (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 9, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: biology Source Type: research
How future-proof are the ideas of Buckminster Fuller?
A new appreciation of design guru Buckminster Fuller shows how he shaped a world that now manages to see him as both quaint and challenging (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 8, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
How New York fashion show owes its success to old encyclopaedia
Creative people and machines can work in perfect harmony - and in haute couture, they've been doing so for years
(Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 8, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Ghostly neutrino could be behind cosmic expansion mystery
An undiscovered, aloof particle could help explain why the universe is expanding faster than it should – and we may have already seen hints of it (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 8, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Feedback: All hands on deck as Noah’s ark resurfaces in Kentucky
Plus fresh scented sea slugs, university seeks future crime-fighters, vulva canoe lands good-for-nothing in hot water, and more (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 1, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
The Oracle of Oil: The man who predicted peak oil
M. King Hubbert was a smart geologist with canny ideas about oil that no one listened to at the time. Can a fascinatingly flawed book rescue his legacy? (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 1, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Prisoners’ code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls
Plug a machine-learning system in to prison phone lines and you can find out secrets a human monitor would never notice (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 1, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
