Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain ’s white matter
People who are overweight have less white matter in their brains, making them look a decade older – an effect that doesn’t seem to kick in until middle age (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 4, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Giant honeybees may act like a collective lung to beat the heat
Curtains of bees appear to draw air in and out of their colonies, keeping their colonies cool (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Can polio success help India improve its public health?
The legacy of polio eradication gives India a golden opportunity to fix its scandalously poor healthcare system. Will it take it? (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: healthcare India polio Source Type: research
Have black holes hurled half the universe into the wilderness?
Billions of years ago, half the universe ’s visible matter disappeared. The monstrous culprit might have been unmasked – and with it, the future of our galaxy (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
Activating specific neurons in fruit fly brains sends them straight to sleep, or rouses them from slumber – and we may have a similar switch (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips
Superconducting chips were the front runner for use in future quantum computers, but now trapped ions are showing they can perform just as well (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Ghost particles may explain why gravity is so surprisingly weak
Gravity is weaker than it should be – a new theory suggests that’s because the universe is full of invisible particle families which ignore each other (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data
A brain-inspired computer chip made by IBM can sift through chaotic data by switching between crystalline forms (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
First evidence birds nap in flight without dropping out of sky
Brain recorders fitted to 14 great frigatebirds show these birds sleep on the wing, usually while circling in rising air currents (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Spatter from blood-soaked sponges could aid gun forensics
Complex analysis of the physical forces behind blood droplet patterns caused by gunshot wounds could be major step forward for crime scene investigators (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
African ibis and South American coati among 37 on EU ’s kill list
Europe ’s list of 37 species of invasive exotic plants and animals that should be banished from the continent comes into force on 3 August (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Gas halo flips galaxies from bright young things into has-beens
Deep inside every galaxy is a tug of war between its forming stars and its voracious black hole, and its gas and mass that can make the difference (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?
VR and sex robots might treat an intractable problem – or they could make it worse. Either way, it’s time to stop putting discomfort ahead of science (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
July was bad news but I ’m fine – so why do I feel so terrible?
Police shootings, terror attacks, deep political division. It's a lot to take in but Frank Swain's situation hasn't changed so why does it weigh so heavily? (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
Mathematicians finally starting to understand epic ABC proof
A theory developed by mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki has baffled his peers for nearly four years, but now a glimmer of understanding hints at the deep nature of numbers (Source: New Scientist - Cancer)
Source: New Scientist - Cancer - August 2, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research
