New items – 20 total

• Brain cancer patients live longer wearing electric cap designed to zap tumors

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/brain-cancer-patients-live-longer-wearing-electric-cap-designed-to-zap-tumors/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/03/2017

• Russia’s hack of State Department was “hand-to-hand” combat

  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/russias-hack-of-state-department-was-hand-to-hand-combat/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/03/2017

• Letting unauthorized immigrants get driver’s licenses makes roads safer

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/letting-unauthorized-immigrants-get-drivers-licenses-makes-roads-safer/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/03/2017

• Russia: Maybe reusing rockets isn’t a crazy capitalist idea after all

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/after-spacex-launch-russia-now-says-it-is-interested-in-reusable-rockets/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/04/2017

• Scientists capture video of dolphins risking death to eat octopus

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/new-study-reveals-dolphins-flinging-octopuses-into-the-air/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/04/2017

• This six-year-old video from SpaceX is both prescient and pure troll

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/this-six-year-old-video-from-spacex-is-both-prescient-and-pure-troll/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/05/2017

• Getting antibiotics as a baby may have lasting effects on brain, behavior

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/getting-antibiotics-as-a-baby-may-have-lasting-effects-on-brain-behavior/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/05/2017

• Liberal and conservative book buyers like different kinds of science

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/liberal-and-conservative-book-buyers-like-different-kids-of-science/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/05/2017

• Renewables won’t drive up cost of electricity from fossil fuel plants

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/renewables-wont-drive-up-cost-of-electricity-from-fossil-fuel-plants/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/05/2017

• For cannibals, here’s the caloric content of humans—it’s just meh

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/counting-calories-of-going-cannibal-on-a-paleo-diet-human-flesh-is-just-meh/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/06/2017

• By 2100, we could be recreating a 50 million-year-old climate

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/by-2100-we-could-be-recreating-a-50-million-year-old-climate/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/06/2017

• Washington state’s new 8 megawatt-hour flow battery is the largest of its kind

  https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/04/washington-states-new-8-megawatt-hour-flow-battery-is-the-largest-of-its-kind/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/06/2017

• Here’s how an otherwise humdrum virus sparks celiac disease

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/heres-how-an-otherwise-humdrum-virus-sparks-celiac-disease/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/06/2017

• Dietary fats make worms live almost 50% longer—no human results yet

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/dietary-fats-make-worms-live-almost-50-longer-no-human-results-yet/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/06/2017

• Aggressive emissions cutbacks would drop heat waves in half in 20 years

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/aggressive-emissions-cutbacks-would-drop-heat-waves-in-half-in-20-years/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017

• Blue Origin has built three new rockets, may begin flying again this summer

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/blue-origin-may-begin-second-round-of-new-shepard-tests-by-late-summer/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017

• New giant viruses suggest their genomes expanded like an accordion

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/giant-viruses-likely-not-involved-in-the-origin-of-cells-after-all/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017

• One-third of Americans are willing to eat lab-grown meat regularly

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/one-third-of-americans-are-willing-to-eat-lab-grown-meat-regularly/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017

• First high-res look at microbial ballistics: Harpoons, spears, Gatling guns

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/watch-militarized-microbes-use-some-sophisticated-weapons-to-snare-prey/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017

• Extremely sensitive experiment shows no hint of a key radioactive decay

  https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/latest-test-for-a-standard-model-replacement-comes-up-empty/

  Ars Technica » Scientific Method 04/07/2017