The Amazonian arrow poison that made modern anaesthesia
17 January 2018
Adventurer Richard Gill sought relief from symptoms of multiple sclerosis in an Ecuadorian tribal weapon – with wider results that live on in medicine today
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So long, suckers: Where have all the black holes gone?
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The universe is well-stocked with black holes large and small, but none in medium. Strange dwarf galaxies might hold the answer
How 'stem cell' clinics became a Wild West for dodgy treatments
17 January 2018
Hundreds of clinics offering unregulated stem cell therapies have sprung up across the US and Australia thanks to lax oversight
Source of world’s biggest listeria outbreak still unknown
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There have been almost 750 cases of listeriosis in South Africa so far, and the source of the food poisoning infection remains unknown
All other primates live their lives according to a simple rule
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Hundreds of species of primate all form groups of the same five sizes, suggesting that the ecosystems in which they live strongly shape their lifestyles
Bowel cancer test may be a much better way to screen for polyps
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A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer
A capsized oil tanker is releasing invisible toxins into the sea
16 January 2018
The slick of oil condensate from a stricken tanker in the East China Sea is a threat to all marine life, not least because it is invisible
Blindness treatment will insert algae gene into people's eyes
16 January 2018
Optogenetic techniques that use light to control nerve cells are being tried in people at last – and could lead to treatments for several types of blindness
Mount Etna may not really be a ‘proper’ volcano at all
15 January 2018
Italy’s famous volcano Mount Etna may be fed mostly by hot water and carbon dioxide, with only a small dose of molten rock to make it resemble a classic volcano
DNA of man who died in 1827 recreated from his living relatives
15 January 2018
The DNA of Hans Jonaton, an ex-slave who fled to Iceland in 1802, has been reconstructed using only the genes of his descendants
