A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
By Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge and Muzaffer Kaser, University of Cambridge
By Patrik Jones, Imperial College LondonConverting renewable energy into electricity is one thing; converting it into fuel is quite another. The vast majority of global energy demand is for fuel, and a renewable source could help us heat our houses and travel efficiently long into the future. It might even mean we could avoid the conflicts that will arise while competing for the last remaining fossil fuels.
Jennifer Lawrence at the 83rd Academy Awards. CC BY-SA 2.0By Emma Rees, University of Chester
Bamboo can also be a tasty snack. Credit: Chris Ison/PABy Dirk Hebel, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZurichBamboo, a common grass which can be harder to pull apart than steel, has the potential to revolutionize building construction throughout the world. But that’s not all. As a raw material found predominantly in the developing world, without a pre-existing industrial infrastructure built to skew things towards the rich world, bamboo has the potential to completely shift international economic relations.
A simple solution to a persistent problem. Credit: Ashok A. KumarBy Ashok A. Kumar, Harvard UniversityEvery year, 300,000 children are born with sickle-cell disease, primarily in Africa and India. It is a genetic disorder that causes some blood cells to become abnormally shaped. The result is that those who suffer from it have a shorter lifespan.
Scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus budding from the surface of a Vero cell (African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line. Credit:NIAIDBy Rob BrooksMy social media accounts today are cluttered with stories about “mutating” Ebola viruses. The usually excellent ScienceAlert, for example, rather breathlessly informs us “The Ebola virus is mutating faster in humans than in animal hosts.”
Nano-robots have cancer in their sights. Credit: StephenMitchell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDBy Dr. Jason Liu, Monash UniversityIt sounds like a scene from a science fiction novel – an army of tiny weaponized robots traveling around a human body, hunting down malignant tumours and destroying them from within.
Kell Brook and two of the Sheffield Hallam University team. Credit: Sheffield Hallam University.By Alan Ruddock, Sheffield Hallam UniversityAmid all the flashing lights, it was a moment of sheer exhilaration when the winner was finally announced: “By a majority decision, the new IBF welterweight champion on the world – Kell Brook.”
Checking for glaucoma. Image credit: communityeyehealth, CC BY-NCBy David Crabb, City University LondonScientists have proposed a way to monitor glaucoma using a tiny device implanted in the eye. Readings from the device could be monitored by a smartphone. The technology could help prevent some people from going blind.
Research that found links between abortion and breast cancer also found men who had 'much opportunity to participate in parties' were more likely to have stomach cancer. Credit: burningmax/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SABy Louise Keogh, University of Melbourne
While MOOCs are free, their value lies in providing information about how students. Credit: learnFlickr/Ilonka Talina, CC BY-SABy Gregor Kennedy, University of Melbourne
Humans transport microbes around their environment. Image: Argonne National LaboratoryBy Emma Saville, The Conversation and Penny Orbell, The ConversationMicrobial communities vary greatly between different households but are similar among members of the same household – including pets – according to research published in Science today.
