U.S. cancer institute cancels nanotech research centers
Funding for six cancer centers set to expire in summer of 2020".
Metallurgy, Chemicals
Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
On this week’s show: Tainted groundwater from nonstick chemicals and using smartphones for ear-infection detection".
Former Los Alamos physicist denies federal charges he lied about China ties
Turab Lookman alleged to have hidden participation in Thousand Talents Program".
New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings
On this week’s show: The Large Hadron Collider could be making particles that physicists haven’t looked for and modified wood that can passively cool buildings".
Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag
On this week’s show: why some Ph.D. programs are dropping the General Record Examination requirement for applicants and why DeepMind is teaching artificial agents to play a video game from 1999".
MD Anderson clears researcher flagged by NIH for not disclosing foreign ties
No punishment for last of five scientists identified by funding agency".
Watch an elephant ‘count’ simply by using its sense of smell
Asian elephants can discriminate food quantities using only their trunk".
Researchers strapped video cameras on 16 cats and let them do their thing. Here’s what they found
Science chats with the researcher behind a new attempt to record cats when they’re on their own".
The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED
On this week’s show: Perovskites have made it big in solar and are now poised to enter the light-emitting diode business, and what we can learn about the limits of human endurance from transcontinental racers".
Spotted for the first time: a fish holding its breath underwater
Coffinfish hold water over their gills for up to 4 minutes".
