Breath test to detect cancer: Huge breakthrough to reduce invasive tests

The breakthrough test can detect cancer markers found in your breath (Image: BILLY BOYLE) By detecting cancer earlier, potentially before symptoms have even appeared, tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year. It would also reduce the need for costly and invasive internal investigations, biopsies and scans. Multiple large-scale clinical trials, partly funded […]

‘Tag’ Clip and Featurette Show the Creative, Invasive Ways Friends Try to Win the Game

Don’t be surprised if you see adults regressing back to their childhood after they see this summer’s comedy Tag. The feature directorial debut from television and stand-up special director Jeff Tomsic follows Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Jake Johnson as a group of five friends who have been playing a game […]

Invasive, toxic caterpillars that can kill are about to invade parts of London

Enlarge / Thaumetopoea processionea in procession around an oak tree. (credit: Kleuske) An invasive, toxic species of caterpillar has officials in the UK on edge. Authorities are now warning residents to avoid the caterpillars and their prickly, poisonous hairs that can irritate and kill. “It’s time to be vigilant! Oak Processionary Moth spotted in parks […]

Star Wars Bits: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Returns, a Defense of Luke’s Arc in ‘The Last Jedi,’ and Porgs as an Invasive Species

In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Star Wars Rebels gets a mid-season premiere date John Williams confirms he’ll be scoring Episode IX Snoke’s throne room design has an unlikely influence Matt the Radar Technician makes a grand return And much more! Let’s start, as every post on the Internet should, with Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi. […]

Researchers create less invasive method for placing brain electrodes

Our neurons are firing all the time, receiving signals from other neurons and sending signals of their own. To get a better understanding of how the brain works, scientists often listen in to those signals to see what kind of messages certain neurons send and how often they send them. Doing that often requires researchers […]