New Scientist
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![[:es]Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/10/nervesandcancersmall-800x533.jpg)
[:es]Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours[:]
A technique for alleviating pain has exposed cancer’s weak spot and may finally enable us to stop the disease by disabling the nerves that help it spread
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![[:es]Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/09/01468283-1-800x533.jpg)
[:es]Tool-wielding monkeys push local shellfish to edge of extinction[:]
HUMANS aren’t the only primate to have pushed their prey towards extinction. Monkeys have also over-exploited animals for food.
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![[:eu]LHC pops out a new particle that could test the strong force[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/07/bul-pho-2008-019.jpg)
[:eu]LHC pops out a new particle that could test the strong force[:]
There’s a new particle in town, and it’s a double-charmingly heavy beast. Researchers working on the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have announced the discovery of the esoterically […]
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![[:eu]Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/05/15274350-1.jpg)
[:eu]Early Earth was covered in a global ocean and had no mountains[:]
Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat and almost entirely covered in water with just a few small islands, new research suggests.
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![[:en]Drug that stops brain plaques may show if they cause Alzheimer’s[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2016/09/unnamed-2-2.jpg)
[:en]Drug that stops brain plaques may show if they cause Alzheimer’s[:]
Trials of a new drug called verubecestat will give hope of a milder treatment. Administered as a pill, it switches off plaque production in the brain without side effects.
Ocean’s hidden green plankton revealed by fixing glitch in model
Assumptions about the green colour of microscopic organisms have led to overestimates about their decline as oceans warm
Explore 100 years of general relativity
In a century, Einstein’s theory has revolutionised our picture of the universe. We take a look at the pivotal moments in general relativity since Einstein presented his theory in 1915
World’s first biolimb: Rat forelimb grown in the lab
The growth of a rat forelimb grown in the lab offers hope that one day amputees may receive fully functional, biological replacement limbs