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A study in the UK found that testing drugs at music festivals revealed that one in five substances was not as sold or acquired.  One in five service users utilized the disposal service for further substances of concern in their possession and another one in six moderated their … [Read more...] about Harm Reduction By Testing Drugs

Researchers from the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey report that they have created two machine learning models that are both able to accurately predict the severity of three common symptoms faced by cancer patients – … [Read more...] about Using AI To Identify Distressing Symptoms in Cancer Patients

It has long been thought that different species did not mate because of geographical isolation; that they would adapt differently depending upon their environment. However, new research shows that "selfish genes," or meiotic drive elements, and their exchange of genetic … [Read more...] about The Selfish Genes

China has successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. The spaceship, Chang'e-4, is the first in the world to accomplish this feat. It touched down at 10:26 am local time on January 3, 2019, in the Von Kármán crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin. One of the … [Read more...] about The Dark Side of the Moon

Scientists have investigated the properties of a soil in Northern Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties, and found it to contain a previously unknown strain of bacteria which wipes out four of the six top antibiotic resistant superbugs, including MRSA. They named the … [Read more...] about Medicinal Dirt