Science & Enviroment

Facebook Just Launched a “Snooze” Button—Here’s What It Does
01:08 2017-12-25

Let’s face it—we all have a friend or two who shares way too much on Facebook. While social media is a great way to keep in touch, it is possible to overdo a good thing. Un-friending them might be rude, though. What to do? Thankfully, Facebook understands your pain, and now, they have an easy …

Researchers use sperm to deliver cancer drugs to tumors
01:09 2017-12-24

Chemotherapy has a lot of terrible side effects and that’s partly because the drugs being used to fight cancer also attack healthy cells. Figuring out a way to deliver drugs to tumors without affecting healthy tissue is a challenge and a problem that researchers are trying to solve. One group working on this problem, New …

Gaming disorder is soon to be classified as a mental health condition
11:15 2017-12-23

Gaming disorder is soon to be classified as a mental health condition for the very first time. The International Classification of Diseases is a diagnostic manual that’s published by the World Health Organisation. It was last updated 27 years ago, in 1990. The eleventh edition of the manual is due to be published in 2018, …

‘Milestone’ reached in fighting deadly wheat disease
21:37 2017-12-22

Scientists say they have made a step forward in the fight against a wheat disease that threatens food security. Wheat is a staple food crop, making up a fifth of the calories on our plates. But in many parts of the world, the crop is being attacked by stem rust (black rust), a fungus that …

Samsung Galaxy S9 photo leaked
19:45 2017-12-22

A ‘leaked’ photo has revealed what could be a look at Samsung’s Galaxy S9 handset. And, if the photo is to be believed, the upcoming device will have a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner just beneath the dual lens camera, correcting an issue in the current line-up that has frustrated many users, the Daily Mail reports. Samsung …