Storks dine out on giant landfill sites instead of migrating
White storks traditionally make the annual epic migration from Europe to West Africa - but some have wised up to the fact that there ’s an easy meal much closer to home (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
1970s science follies look groovy in a new light
Why define science by its great works? Events taking place at its fringes are just as revealing (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
A field guide to technology gone feral
Tech systems are so interwoven that even if we could understand their complexity, they change too fast to keep up. We have to study them like an ecology, says a new book (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Fertility facts: How late can you leave it to have a baby?
You want kids, just not yet. So here’s how to work out when to start trying – and whether you should take a fertility test (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells 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 - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 20, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Planet Nine may have tilted entire solar system except the sun
The sun's spin isn't totally upright compared with the orbits of the planets. Could this be because a jealous, distant world shoved its siblings? (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 19, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws
Historic software flaws could render thousands of fMRI studies inaccurate, but researchers failing to use the right statistical methods is a big problem too (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 18, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: biology health Source Type: research
Einstein’s clock: The doomed black hole to set your watch by
Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 18, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: space Source Type: research
SpaceX launches DNA sequencer and new docking port to the ISS
A Falcon 9 rocket has just blasted off NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching a Dragon capsule to the ISS before landing back on the ground (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 18, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
First evidence that GM mosquitoes reduce disease
A trial in Brazil suggests that the approach not only reduces the number of mosquitoes, it also reduces the number of people who get dengue (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 15, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Are your sperm up to scratch? Phone microscope lets you check
A cheap clip-on microscope could spare some men a potentially embarrassing visit to a fertility clinic (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 15, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose
A new species of dinosaur, Gualicho shinya, had tiny arms like T. rex despite coming from a separate continent, suggesting this feature evolved for a reason (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 13, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
I help repurpose everyday drugs like aspirin to fight cancer
Specialist drugs are getting outwitted by cancer. Pan Pantziarka says a solution may be right under our noses (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 13, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Darwin’s discovery: The remarkable history of evolution
Not long ago, it was thought that god created all species. That changed in 1858, but the story of evolution is riddled with myths, says Darwin expert John van Wyhe (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 13, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Graphene sheets open like a flower’s petals when poked
The unexpected discovery of self-folding abilities in graphene suggests we’re closer to making the single-atom sheets into useful electronic components (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 13, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
