Natural selection may be the answer to the cancer riddle, but can we beat evolution?
Aug 31, 2016 11:14 am UTC| Science Nature
Essential organs tasked with keeping us alive and reproducing such as the heart, brain or uterus may have evolved better protection against cancer than larger and paired organs, we have proposed. In an article...
Will superfast 'quantum' computers mean the end of unbreakable encryption?
Aug 27, 2016 12:57 pm UTC| Science Technology
There is a computing revolution coming, although nobody knows exactly when. What are known as quantum computers will be substantially more powerful than the devices we use today, capable of performing many types of...
Say hello to the Earth's nearest exoplanet neighbour: Proxima Centauri b
Aug 27, 2016 12:51 pm UTC| Science
After years of searching, an international team of astronomers says theyve found definitive evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun. The details are published in Nature today, and this...
Why STEM subjects and fashion design go hand in hand
Aug 27, 2016 12:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Business
The fashion industry evokes images of impossibly beautiful people jet setting around the world in extravagant finery. Like a moth to the flames, it draws many of our most creative young minds. Often, the first instinct of...
Quantimentals, signal surfing and fast walkers: mapping the rise of weird data
Aug 23, 2016 09:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
One of the lesser understood aspects of what you can do with massive stockpiles of data is the ability to use data that would traditionally have been overlooked or in some cases even considered rubbish. This whole new...
Faster, higher, stronger: science shows why triple jumpers may be the ultimate Olympians
Aug 16, 2016 13:25 pm UTC| Science Sports
No athletes arguably embody Pierre de Coubertins Olympic motto faster, higher, stronger more fully than those competing in the triple jump. This dynamic track and field event comprises an approach run, followed by three...
AI can excel at medical diagnosis, but the harder task is to win hearts and minds first
Aug 13, 2016 11:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Science
Scientists in Japan reportedly saved a womans life by applying artificial intelligence to help them diagnose a rare form of cancer. Faced with a 60-year-old woman whose cancer diagnosis was unresponsive to treatment, they...