There could already be 40,000 people carrying Zika in the US
Modelling estimates suggest that many people could already have the virus in areas of the US where mosquitoes are able to spread it further (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 3, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Record-breaking year shows Earth ’s climate is in real trouble
Our planet's “annual physical” check-up finds it severely ill, with dozens of various climate records broken last year (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 3, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: environment ocean Source Type: research
Miracle meal or rotten swindle? The truth about superfoods
Trendy foods like wheatgrass and goji berries are lauded for their miraculous health benefits, but do the claims stack up? New Scientist chews on the evidence (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 3, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Videos reveal the Russian doll parasitic world of the deep seas
Footage from the ocean depths shows the wealth of parasites hitching rides on fish - and yet others hitching rides on them (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 3, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Large carnivores under threat as prey they depend on decline
Up to 60 per cent of prey species of iconic predators, such as the clouded leopard, are threatened, which puts them at risk of extinction, too (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 2, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: conservation environment extinction Source Type: research
First diagnosis of dinosaur arthritis shows it lived in pain
The 70 million year old dinosaur must have lived in pain as it had septic arthritis, an especially nasty form of the disease caused by infection (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 2, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: disease environment Source Type: research
Tolerance of smoke may have given us an edge over Neanderthals
Modern humans carry a mutation that allows us to deal with health effects of smoke inhalation – something our Neanderthal relatives seem to have lacked (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 2, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
America ’ s last mammoths died of thirst on an Alaskan island
Three kinds of data all agree that 5600 years ago, one of the last mammoth populations went extinct when climate change dried up their lakes (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 1, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Indonesian fires sent huge smoke plume halfway around the globe
World ’s worst fires for 20 years reveals tipping point vital for predicting and preventing blazes (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 1, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Child dies in anthrax outbreak linked to thawed reindeer corpse
First death reported this week as Russian authorities tackle anthrax outbreak among herders in remote Siberian peninsula (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 1, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Cactus bugs compensate for lack of weapons with bigger balls
Reallocation of resources to testes may increase the insect ’s chances of reproductive success – even when its hind leg sparring weapons have been lost (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - August 1, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Fossil tumour is oldest evidence of human cancer discovered yet
A 1.7 million year-old ancient human foot bone found in South Africa shows signs of osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 28, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Save the world ’s largest living thing: build a fence around it
The most massive organism on Earth lives in Utah, and it is in danger of being eaten to death. The answer might simply be to build a fence around it (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 28, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Detective gulls sniff out illegally dumped trash from the skies
Attracted by the smell of ripe organic waste, seagulls fitted with GPS trackers led scientists to hard-to-spot illegal dumping sites (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 28, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
See beautiful magnetic liquids bloom into stunning shapes
A magnet entices ferrofluids – oil speckled with magnetic particles – to interact in strange yet spectacular formations of colour (Source: New Scientist - Genetics)
Source: New Scientist - Genetics - July 27, 2016 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: ferrofluids liquids magnetic Source Type: research
