Science News
Antarctica's Bizarre Green Icebergs Are More Than a Quirk of the Southern Ocean
Live Science - 9 Mar 2019 15:40Precision drugs could unmask cancers to immune system and boost effects of immunotherapy
Science Daily - 9 Mar 2019 02:56
Precision cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a previously unknown ability to boost the immune system, and could help many more patients benefit from immunotherapy, a new study reveals.
THOR wrangles complex microbiomes into a model for improving them
Science Daily - 9 Mar 2019 01:02
Researchers have developed a community they named THOR, three species of bacteria isolated from soybean roots and grown together. The complex community of microbes developed new behaviors together that couldn't be predic...
This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through March 9)
Singularity Hub - 9 Mar 2019 17:00
MEDICINE HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDs Epidemic Apoorva Mandavilli | The New York Times “Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term...
Do Any Animals Know Their Grandparents?
Live Science - 9 Mar 2019 15:45Nobel-winner Paul Nurse on Brexit: 'The UK is turning in on itself'
New Scientist - 9 Mar 2019 11:00
Scientists fear the UK has lost its way due to Brexit and research could suffer as a result, one of the country's most respected scientists tells New Scientist
Arsenic-munching caterpillars may ingest poison to prevent being eaten
New Scientist - 9 Mar 2019 10:00
Some caterpillars happily dine on arsenic-loaded leaves. Accumulating the poison in their bodies may be a tactic to ward of predators