Scanning technique reads hidden writing in mummy boxes

Historians can use scanning to peek inside mummies without risking damage, but that hasn’t been true for the papyrus boxes those mummies were placed in before entering the tomb. If you’ve wanted to read the discarded everyday writing on that papyrus, you’ve typically had to destroy the boxes. That won’t be necessary from now on, […]

Queen Elizabeth beats jet lag with this VERY odd technique

Queen Elizabeth II, 91, has travelled across the globe since taking the throne in 1952, becoming one of the most well-travelled royals in British history. Her travels have taken her some places more often than others, with Canada being the most visited destination, whilst others such as Israel and Greece are yet to be visited […]

British water firms are using a discredited medieval pseudoscience technique to look for pipes

ETprepper/YouTube 10 out of 12 big British water firms have admitted to still using “divining rods” to look for water. It’s a medieval pseudoscience, with no reputable evidence that it works.   When the parents of Sally Le Page, a British evolutionary biologist, tried to get help from their local water company with installing a new […]

Breast cancer test: New technique could spare thousands from chemotherapy

The cutting edge technique, Oncotype DX, analyses samples of tumour removed during surgery and provides a recurrence score of between 1 and 100 on the likelihood of cancer returning.  The test is currently only available to some women with breast cancer, but experts say thousands who miss out undergo chemotherapy they do not need.  The […]

Prostate cancer breakthrough: THIS new technique could help treat deadly tumours

A new imaging technique uncovers oxygen levels in prostate tumours, and could lead to a non-invasive way to determine which tumours are more difficult to treat. Scientists at the University of Cambridge created a technique with an imaging device using a combination of light and sound to check the oxygen levels in prostate tumours in […]

Gene editing technique could treat ALS and Huntington’s disease

The most common gene editing technique, CRISPR-Cas9, only modifies DNA. That’s helpful in most cases, but it means that you can’t use it to tackle RNA-based diseases. Thankfully, that might not be a problem for much longer. After plenty of talk about editing RNA, researchers have developed a new RNA-oriented technique (RCas9) that can correct […]