Science

2024-10-15

Induction chemotherapy followed by standard chemoradiotherapy versus standard chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer: Research finds that a bout of chemotherapy before the standard chemoradiotherapy reduces deaths from, and recurrence of, cervical cancer.

2024-10-13: New Scientist Live talks 2024

2024-10-04

New Scientist Live: The “festival of ideas and discoveries” is back in London later this month.

2024-09-29: How unique is Covid-19?

2024-09-27

Reducing Food Cravings: Pratik shares 4 things that research suggests can diminish food cravings: visualising nature, diverting your focus, physical creativity and (certain?) smells.

2024-09-23

Two New Studies Point to Diabetes from COVID: Getting Covid may be a risk factor for developing diabetes, whilst having diabetes is a risk factor for getting severe Covid symptoms.

2024-09-23: A new study finds 3,601 of the more-than-14,000 chemicals known to be used to store, process, …

2024-09-18

‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.

2024-09-10: Recent research provides some (weak) evidence that labelling menu items with calories might cause harm to some

2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …

2024-09-03: Research suggests that GLP-1 pharmaceuticals can prevent Covid-19 deaths

2024-08-26: The US Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccines for Covid-19 last week. The recommendation …

2024-06-17: Being thin is (in part) a genetic trait

2024-05-29: The study behind the trial that Novo Nordisk stopped early last year for efficacy reasons has been …

2024-05-21: The randomizr package for R (and apparently Stata) provides some nice simple functions to help …

2024-05-17: The excellent ConscienHealth blog, writing about a fierce debate in the world of nutrition science, …

2024-05-10: Hundreds of IPCC scientists think we'll being living in an environmental semi-dystopia by the end of the century

2024-04-22: The results aren’t published yet, but it looks like we’re going to see that the …

2024-03-30: R. A. Fisher’s quote from his address to the 1938 First Indian Statistical Congress remains …

2024-03-11: After a trial involving nearly 18000 participants, the US FDA approves Wegovy, one of the famed …

2023-12-22: Over 10,000 research papers were retracted this year

2023-12-22: 📚 Finished reading Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.

2023-12-05: Being an data analyst type of person I am a fervent believer in the below concept, but until now I …

2023-12-04: The world is on track for a “hellish” 3C of global heating, the UN has warned. Apparently our …

2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.