Science X Newsletter Sunday, Sep 28

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Spotlight Stories Headlines

- MH370: Seabed images to support inch-by-inch plane search
- Post-Snowden, iPhone 6 encryption fans safety debate
- New mosquito-borne virus spreads in Latin America
- 'Cloaking' device uses ordinary lenses to hide objects across range of angles
- Quad Theatre: Cirque du Soleil's flying lampshades (w/ Video)
- Writers and readers go mobile and social at Wattpad
- 'Anti-Facebook' social network gets viral surge
- Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
- Researchers identify early sign of pancreatic cancer

Astronomy & Space news

Russia successfully launches Proton-M rocket after accident Russia on Sunday successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying a satellite into orbit in the first such launch since one of the rockets fell back to Earth soon after liftoff in May.

Technology news

	MH370: Seabed images to support inch-by-inch plane search While a team of experts' main goal is to locate the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 that disappeared in March, their search has turned up seabed details that reveal extinct volcanoes and 1,400-meter depressions for the first time, said Richard Westcott, BBC Transport Correspondent, on Friday.
	Post-Snowden, iPhone 6 encryption fans safety debate Encryption technology in the iPhone 6 has taken root in a scales-of-justice debate between privacy supporters and public safety officials. Apple is using a more advanced encryption technology.
	Quad Theatre: Cirque du Soleil's flying lampshades (w/ Video) Dance of the Quadcopters? Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios have partnered to develop a film that shows 10 quadcopters in performance. What would one expect with the name-brand Cirque du Soleil. Humans and drones move in sync. ETH Zurich comes into the mix with precise computer control for the performance of human and machine movements. The technology team would be tasked with achieving seamless coordination of multiple vehicles, designing suitable trajectories and high-reliability infrastructure to pull off a successful film shoot.
	Writers and readers go mobile and social at Wattpad Allen Lau considers himself living proof that love of good writing is alive and well in the age of streaming video and terse text messages.
'Anti-Facebook' social network gets viral surge In a matter of days, the new social network Ello, described as the "anti-Facebook" for its stand on privacy and advertising, has become perhaps the hottest ticket on the Internet.
Whistleblower phone app seeks to outsmart corruption Douglas Buule, a teacher at Kiwenda primary, a government school outside Uganda's capital Kampala, has a recurring problem.
	Inventor of World Wide Web warns of threat to internet The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web.
	Tech sector sizzles as Myanmar embraces Internet for the masses From navigating gridlocked city roads to playing a favourite national sport, new homegrown apps are blossoming in Myanmar as cheap mobile technology ignites an Internet revolution in the once-isolated nation.
	Washington's experts recruit 'Call of Duty' creator A Washington think tank is recruiting the mastermind behind the best-selling "Call of Duty" video games to help policy wonks imagine future wars America may have to fight.
'Yelp laws' aim to halt online review reprisals It's now law in California: consumers have a right to post negative reviews on Yelp and other websites, without fear of reprisals from companies they write about.
	India turns to nuclear as energy crisis deepens India's new prime minister is turning to nuclear energy to ease a power crisis made worse by the cancellation of hundreds of coal mining permits, but he faces scepticism both at home and abroad.
China busts smugglers of iPhone 6 in Shanghai (AP)—China in recent days has busted a slew of smugglers bringing Apple iPhone 6 models into the country ahead of their official release here, with officials on Sunday reporting the latest seizure of 453 smartphones in Shanghai.
Tech-friendly cities struggle with new biz rules (AP)—Boston and Cambridge are looking to regulate online and mobile-based businesses like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft, making the tech-friendly cities unlikely participants in fights over how to deal with such services.
Turkey's Erdogan dismisses new iPhone: 'Same as the last' Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, known for his hostility to social networks and mobile technology, on Sunday brushed off the frenzy surrounding Apple's new iPhone 6, saying it was much the same as its iPhone 5 predecessor.

Medicine & Health news

	New mosquito-borne virus spreads in Latin America (AP)—An excruciating mosquito-borne illness that arrived less than a year ago in the Americas is raging across the region, leaping from the Caribbean to the Central and South American mainland, and infecting more than 1 million people. Some cases have already emerged in the United States.
Researchers identify early sign of pancreatic cancer Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions have discovered a sign of the early development of pancreatic cancer – an upsurge in certain amino acids that occurs before the disease is diagnosed and symptoms appear. The research is being published online today by the journal Nature Medicine.
	Virus probed in paralysis cases in 9 US kids (AP)—Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.
Anamorelin improve appetite and body mass in patients with cancer anorexia-cachexia A new drug, anamorelin, improves appetite and body mass in patients with advanced lung cancer who are suffering cancer anorexia and cachexia, according to phase III data presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain.
Crizotinib treatment effective against ROS1-positive lung cancer Treatment with the targeted therapy drug crizotinib effectively halts the growth of lung tumors driven by rearrangements of the ROS1 gene. In an article receiving Online First publication in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with a presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting, an international research team reports that crizotinib treatment led to significant tumor shrinkage in 36 of 50 study participants and suppressed tumor growth in another 9.
Countries must work together to stop organ traffickers, says researcher The author of new research into organ trafficking has called for a concerted international effort to confront the problem.
Cancer during pregnancy: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are safe for babies, studies show Children who are exposed to chemotherapy or radiotherapy while in the womb suffer no negative impacts on mental or cardiac development, international studies presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid have shown.
Rolapitant reduces nausea and vomiting in Phase III trial Rolapitant reduces nausea and vomiting in patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy, according to the results of a phase III trial presented for the first time today at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain.
Afatinib improves progression-free survival in head and neck cancer The tyrosine kinase inhibitor afatinib significantly improved progression-free survival compared to methotrexate in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck after failure of platinum-based chemotherapy, the results of a phase III trial show.
French studies measure benefits of colorectal cancer screening The introduction of biennial colorectal cancer screening in a region of France increased the rate of diagnosis of high risk pre-cancerous adenomas (sometimes called polyps) by 89%, researchers have reported at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.
Docetaxel or pemetrexed with cisplatin achieve comparable outcomes in non-squamous Lu Ca The first direct comparison of treating non-squamous lung cancer with either pemetrexed or docetaxel in addition to cisplatin has shown that the two combinations achieve similar progression-free survival, although docetaxel was associated with more frequent adverse events.
5 babies test positive for TB in Texas exposure (AP)—Five babies have tested positive for tuberculosis in West Texas after a nurse assistant at an El Paso hospital exposed hundreds of infants to the disease between September 2013 and last month.
Public versus private? Swiss mull health system shift Swiss voters were deciding Sunday whether to ditch the country's all-private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme, with polls indicating that they will reject the plan.
Ebola death toll passes 3,000: WHO The death toll in the world's worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,000, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 6,500 people it has infected, according to World Health Organization figures released Saturday.
Guyana, China sign five-year health pact China on Saturday agreed to train Guyanese doctors in medical specialities, as part of a five-year deal with the South American country.
Swiss reject switch from private to state health insurance Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan for a seismic shift from the country's all-private health insurance system to a state-run scheme.
1000 veterans line up for free marijuana (AP)—A marijuana giveaway for veterans attracted about 1,000 people to a Colorado hotel.

Biology news

Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself New findings by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggest that an evolutionary arms race between rival elements within the genomes of primates drove the evolution of complex regulatory networks that orchestrate the activity of genes in every cell of our bodies.

US: Genetically modified wheat found in Montana (AP)—Unregulated genetically modified wheat has popped up in a second location in the United States, this time in state of Montana, the Agriculture Department said Friday.

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