NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system: ‘Observations by the James Webb space telescope of a planet called K2-18 b appear to reveal the chemical fingerprints of two compounds that, on Earth, are only known to be produced by life.’

Woman becomes first UK womb transplant recipient to give birth

‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn: There’s little suggestion we’ll really know any better what to do next time.

Meet Gem the cocker spaniel – the face of UK pet cloning: It’s illegal to clone animals for commercial purposes in the UK, but companies are working around this by sending samples of rich people’s pets overseas.

Scientist’s ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions for the future come true – mostly: How much did Prof Archibald Montgomery Low get right?

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates: Apparently it’s easier to rewrite science that get Excel to stop auto-converting “MARCH1” into a date.

Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It’s a Big Surprise: Apparently our brains process information at the minuscule rate of 10 bits per second - to be fair I regularly feel like a 1970s computer could best me.

Ozempic Killed Diet and Exercise: It’s seeming like patients on GLP-1 drugs don’t benefit a lot from explicit lifestyle interventions in terms of weight loss - although there may be other health benefits of doing them.

Congressional Republicans conclude SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab leak: Whatever the truth of the matter is, it’s obvious that the process that led to this particular report was a total abuse of science.

The Sanewashing of RFK Jr.: Let’s not forget that this guy has some very bizarre (and dangerous) ideas.

Before making clinical trials faster, let’s first agree on what they are: What’s needed for clinical trials designed to get new drugs onto the market is in tension with what’s needed for those designed to test interventions already in use.

‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.

‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?: Introducing ‘avatar therapy’ - where patients with psychosis interact with digital incarnations of the hallucinatory voices that plague them.

What is genomic prediction and can embryos really be ‘screened for IQ’?: Even if it wasn’t a terrible idea, it’s not clear that we know how to do it effectively.

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.

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

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

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.