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Reluctance to be tested puts large numbers of people potentially at risk from second largest cause of cancer
More than three quarters of eligible Australians are not being screened for bowel cancer despite it being offered for free, which is putting them at risk from the second biggest cause of cancer death in the country.
A study, published in BMC Public Health on Wednesday, found that just 25% of eligible men and 20% of women were screened for bowel cancer during the study period.
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by Helen Davidson
18 Jun 2013 at 5:44pm
Plan supported by Office for Fair Access aims to encourage talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds
Universities are being urged by the government to sponsor new free schools specialising in mathematics, in a plan supported by the Office for Fair Access (Offa) to encourage talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study maths at degree level.
As an incentive to open the new schools, universities will be allowed to fund them using budgets otherwise reserved for improving access...
by Richard Adams
18 Jun 2013 at 5:01pm
Letters: Northern museums
We are concerned at the threatened closure of the northern "national" science museums: Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, the National Railway Museum, York, and the National Media Museum, Bradford (Report, 5 June). These are of enormous value to both scholarly and popular understanding of our industrial and scientific heritage, and represent one of the few areas where there has been a concerted attempt to develop national museums outside London. The news of the threatened closure of i...
18 Jun 2013 at 1:02pm
Wenlock Edge: This shock of blue, exploded from a scattering of plants here over a century or more, has reached a zenith
Blue as an ambulance light, the patch of bugle flowers in the wood. Once open, maybe a long-abandoned garden before trees took hold, this place becomes the dreamy point of midsummer, with its own reality surrounded by a pervading anxiety. At the entrance to the wood is a pull-in off the lane where cars stop for dog walkers, fly-tipping, canoodling. A man gets out. "A good da...
by Paul Evans
18 Jun 2013 at 1:01pm
From time to time, it's important to pause the bureaucratic debate about open access and recognise how stupid scientific publishing is
Like many academics, I am currently trying to work out what I should think and do about Open Access. I share with many scientists strong personal commitments to the idea of openness. I am in this game because I think research is valuable, and I work at a University because I like the idea that research that should be in the public interest should mostly be publ...
by Jack Stilgoe
18 Jun 2013 at 12:24pm
The Met Office held a crisis meeting today. But why do Brits turn trivial weather nuisances into dashers of hopes?
Everyone bewildered by the seemingly unprecedented weirdness of this year's summer might spare a thought for those living in 1783, who went through another kind of trial by weather. Gilbert White of Selborne's account of the events of 23 June to 20 July is a masterpiece of deadpan gothic: "The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust coloured ferruginous li...
by Richard Mabey
18 Jun 2013 at 11:30am
The white male-dominated Republican party is still living in the stone age on social issues. It just goes from bad to worse
It's a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward equal rights for gays. The last election cycle saw incredible gains for marriage equality and representation for gays and lesbians in government. There is a movement in the Republican party to at least stop fighting the issue, and at least a recognition that they cannot hope to grow the party as lon...
by Ana Marie Cox
18 Jun 2013 at 10:49am
The green credentials of biofuel crops have been sullied in recent years. Rienk van Grondelle believes the answer to the world's clean energy needs will be super-efficient algae
Driving through the countryside in the south of France, you would probably be charmed by the vineyards and delighted at the thought of drinking fine French wine. But when Rienk van Grondelle looks at the same view, he envisages something completely different. Where farmers now grow vines or corn to feed animals, he see...
by Lou Del Bello
18 Jun 2013 at 9:53am
The G8 has the information and tools to prioritise nutrition in development, but it will have to create the right political environment to hold true to commitments
The G8 countries are being asked to make firm financial and strategic commitments to fight malnutrition on a scale never before imagined. Can they do it? If not, we can point to a lack of political will, but not lack of information and viable solutions.
Nutrition researchers, economists, and other champions in the fight against under...
18 Jun 2013 at 8:42am
Four women and four men made it through pool of 6,100 applicants for opportunity to take part in leading space missions
Members of Nasa's newest astronaut class, a group that includes the highest number of women since the program began more than 50 years ago, have been speaking about their selection.
The agency's 21st astronaut class, announced on Monday, includes four women and four men, who made it through a pool of 6,100 applicants, the largest ever. Those who make it through the program wil...
by Amanda Holpuch
18 Jun 2013 at 6:22am
ScienceDaily
Small satellites soar in high-altitude demonstration
Four tiny spacecraft soared over the California desert June 15 in a high-altitude demonstration flight that tested the sensor and equipment designs created by NASA engineers and student launch teams.
18 Jun 2013 at 2:26pm
Finding all asteroid threats to human populations: NASA announces asteroid gr...
NASA has announced a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists. It complements NASA's recently announced mission to redirect an asteroid and send humans to study it.
18 Jun 2013 at 2:20pm
Cassini probe to take photo of Earth from deep space
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inviting the public to help acknowledge the historic interplanetary portrait as it is being taken.
18 Jun 2013 at 1:19pm
Academics earn street cred with TED Talks but no points from peers
TED Talks, the most popular conference and events website in the world with over 1 billion informational videos viewed, provides academics with increased popular exposure but does nothing to boost citations of their work by peers, new research has found.
18 Jun 2013 at 11:14am
Tiny batteries: 3-D printing could lead to miniaturized medical implants, com...
Three-dimensional printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine to communications, including many that have lingered on lab benches for lack of a battery small enough to fit the device, yet provide enough stored energy to power them.
18 Jun 2013 at 11:14am
Personality test finds some mouse lemurs shy, others bold
In the last 10 years the study of animal personality has gained ground with behavioral ecologists. Researchers have now found distinct personalities in the grey mouse lemur, the tiny, saucer-eyed primate native to the African island of Madagascar.
18 Jun 2013 at 11:14am
Chemical probe confirms that body makes its own rotten egg gas, H2S, to benef...
A new study confirms directly what scientists previously knew only indirectly -- that poisonous "rotten egg" gas hydrogen sulfide is generated by the body's blood vessel cells. Researchers made the confirmation by developing a chemical probe that lights up in reaction to rotten egg gas. The scientists observed the process in real-time through a microscope.
18 Jun 2013 at 10:18am
Fiber-optic pen helps see inside brains of children with learning disabilities
For less than $100, researchers have designed a computer-interfaced drawing pad that helps scientists see inside the brains of children with learning disabilities while they read and write.
18 Jun 2013 at 10:18am
Getting enough sleep could help prevent type 2 diabetes
Getting more sleep increases insulin sensitivity and reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes.
18 Jun 2013 at 10:18am
Early-life air pollution linked with childhood asthma in minorities
Scientists have found that exposure in infancy to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a component of motor vehicle air pollution, is strongly linked with later development of childhood asthma among African Americans and Latinos.
18 Jun 2013 at 10:18am
New Scientist
Google's Project Loon to float the internet on balloons
Google admits its new balloon-based connectivity project is a "moonshot" to bring the last two-thirds of the global population online. How realistic is the audacious plan?
18 Jun 2013 at 1:39pm
Today on New Scientist
All the latest on newscientist.com: living without oxygen, writing the body, how the Med is killing the Atlantic, Lego Curiosity, slimy computers, and more
18 Jun 2013 at 10:00am
China aims to slash its air pollution by 2017
After suffering the worst smog on record earlier this year, China has decided to cut the emission of air pollutants by 30 per cent in 5 years
18 Jun 2013 at 9:50am
New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown
Eight people have been selected as the first US astronauts since Apollo to be trained for deep space, but will they visit an asteroid or Mars?
18 Jun 2013 at 9:29am
Virtual reality display lets fire crews see in a blaze
Wearable infrared sensors will give firefighters vital information about temperature and layout when they enter a burning, smoke-filled building
18 Jun 2013 at 8:05am
Everest's final frontier: Life without oxygen
People living at high altitude have evolved different ways to cope with low oxygen levels. Understanding how could benefit people in intensive care (full text available to subscribers)
18 Jun 2013 at 8:00am
World's first baby born from 'natural' IVF
Meet Heath, the first baby born using a new hormone that should reduce risk of a dangerous IVF-related condition
18 Jun 2013 at 8:00am
New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler
NASA might not be able to save its damaged space telescope Kepler, but it could begin a second career spotting new worlds with a gravitational lens
18 Jun 2013 at 7:37am
How should we write about the body?
Bright and breezy or complex and serious? Gulp and Life's Vital Link highlight two ways to tell the story of key parts of our anatomy
18 Jun 2013 at 7:00am
Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers
The ability to "remember" electrical resistance could make slime mould a useful material for building living computers
18 Jun 2013 at 5:49am
Scientific American
All humans evolved to find certain female traits attractive, across cultures, because they signal a potential mate's reproductive potential. Right? Actually, a new study finds that cultural norms can also play a big part. At least when it comes to big feet.
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Colorado Wildfire Snuffs Over 500 homes; California Fire a Threat
By Keith Coffman and Alex Dobuzinskis
DENVER/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, as another threatening blaze grew in California.
Authorities said the so-called Black Forest Fire, which has killed at least two people and has burned in the rolling hills outside Colorado Springs for the past week, was 85 percent contained by Tuesday.
The...
18 Jun 2013 at 4:10pm
NASA's Grand Challenge: Stop Asteroids from Destroying Earth
There may be killer asteroids headed for Earth, and NASA has decided to do something about it. The space agency announced a new "Grand Challenge" today (June 18) to find all dangerous space rocks and figure out how to stop them from destroying Earth.
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Details in Death of Yuri Gagarin, 1st Man in Space, Revealed 45 Years Later
The circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space says he can reveal what really happened to his friend and fellow Russian cosmonaut.
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Pesticides Spark Broad Biodiversity Loss
Agricultural pesticides have been linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss in two new research papers.
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Dog Genetics Spur Scientific Spat
Scientists investigating the transformation of wolves into dogs are behaving a bit like the animals they study, as disputes roil among those using genetics to understand dog domestication.
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30 under 30: Fueling Industry with Sunlight--and Science with Collaboration
Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting . There, the newest generation of scientists mingles with Nobel Prize winners and discusses their work and ideas. The 2013 meeting is dedicated to chemistry and will involve young researchers from 78 different countries. In anticipation of the event, which will take place from June 30 through July 5, we are highlighting a group of attendees under 30 who represent the future of c...
18 Jun 2013 at 11:45am
New Astronauts Face Limited Opportunities for Spaceflight NASA announced on Monday its 2013 class of astronaut candidates, but the current state of the agency's human spaceflight program makes it hard to get excited about what lies ahead for these remarkable individuals.To mark the announcement, NASA hosted a Google Hangout on Air with several administrators and former astronauts. [More]
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A Cosmic Map of the Exoplanets [Interactive]
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PhysOrg
18 Jun 2013 at 5:10pm
Research shows moves to ban pay-to-delay deals are justified Controversial deals that delay generic versions of drugs coming onto the market can lead to consumers paying significantly more for some treatments, according to new research by an academic from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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DreamWorks says TV revenue to hit $200M by 2015 DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says its new deal to provide original TV shows to Netflix will help it double the revenue it gets from TV shows to $200 million by 2015.
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