At the world's largest cancer research meeting, new data were plentiful. But this year, there was also a focus on grief.
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<p>Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs</p><p>Google wants to “stop bad bugs with good bugs”, and it’s not talking about coding. The tech company has asked the US government for permission to release up to 32 million sterilized mosquitoes in California and Florida.</p><p>As part of its successful <a href="https://debug.com/">“Debug” program</a>, Google is tapping into its tech expertise to raise an army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower the number of illness-spreading bugs. Mosquitoes – the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/global-health/impact/fighting-the-worlds-deadliest-animal.html">world’s deadliest animal</a> – kill more people than any other creature in the world every year by spreading lethal diseases such as dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya and malaria.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/google-permission-release-mosquitoes-california-florida">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Late physicist turned issue of when to stop searching for a better place to eat into mathematical problem</p><p>When it comes to exploring a new city, it can be tricky to know when to stop searching for a different restaurant to try every night, or to visit the first place you love on repeat.</p><p>Now researchers have found that the late physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman devised a mathematical equation that can tackle the conundrum – at least when the range of options is known – and they believe the approach is similar to tactics people use intuitively.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/scientists-uncover-feynmans-formula-for-finding-best-holiday-restaurant">Continue reading...</a>
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.
<p>Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed</p>
People with advanced pancreatic cancer taking an experimental daily pill lived nearly twice as long as those receiving chemotherapy infusions
<p>Remains of Los Alamos employee Melissa Casias found alongside handgun in case that stirred online speculation</p><p>Authorities in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/newmexico">New Mexico</a> have identified human remains which they recently discovered as those of a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) employee who had been missing for more than a year.</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DBKjCCjum/">statement</a> released over the weekend, state police said the remains belonged to Melissa Casias, a 53-year-old resident of Taos, New Mexico, who was last seen walking eastbound along a state highway on 26 June 2025.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/melissa-casias-remains-found-new-mexico">Continue reading...</a>
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<p>Tidigare forskning har visat att viktkirurgi kan minska risken för bland annat typ 2-diabetes, hjärt-kärlsjukdom och vissa cancerformer. En ny studie vid Göteborgs universitet har nu undersökt hur behandlingen påverkar människors dagliga liv och möjligheten att leva självständigt. Det är sedan tidigare känt att obesitas kan försämra livskvaliteten och förmågan att klara vardagliga aktiviteter, men […]</p>
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<p>It’s natural to focus on breakthroughs, but there are many challenges in Britain and around the world. There is no magic bullet, but there’s room for optimism</p><p>Cancer causes nearly <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer">one in six deaths worldwide every year</a>, some 10 million all told. That is a stunning number, but it also masks the reality that some cancers are more deadly than others. We have become remarkably good at detecting and treating <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/melanoma-skin-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/survival-rates-for-melanoma-skin-cancer-by-stage.html">melanoma</a> and <a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/prostate-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/survival-rates.html">prostate cancer</a>, for example, and today five-year survival rates for those cancers are well over 90% in most rich countries. Others, such as pancreatic cancer, are more difficult. In the UK, just <a href="https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-cancer/survival">over one in 20 people</a> with pancreatic cancer are still alive five years after diagnosis.</p><p>That is why a new drug for pancreatic cancer, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial">called daraxonrasib</a> and announced at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (Asco) annual meeting in Chicago at the weekend, has been met with such jubilation. The drug – taken as a pill once a day – doubled the survival time of those enrolled in a 500-person trial, with fewer side effects compared to traditional chemotherapy. The drug works by shutting down a protein, Kras, that causes cancer cells to grow and divide. One longtime cancer researcher reported that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial">she cried reading</a> the results. With …
Turmeric is heralded for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, but columnist Alice Klein finds that the evidence for this is shaky. Taking high doses of its curcumin extract in supplement form can be risky
<p>Experimental tablet produces encouraging results in patients with world’s most common forms of disease</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/cancer-patient-hope-after-smart-drug-trial-success">‘I was getting ready to say goodbye’: patient’s hope after smart drug success</a></p><p>A smart drug that stops cancer cells “hiding” from treatment can shrink tumours by at least 30% in six of the world’s most common forms of the disease, early trial results show.</p><p>While immunotherapy treatments have improved survival rates for many patients, their effectiveness can stall or fail when tumour cells hide and then spread.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/01/cancer-smart-drug-cells-invisibility-cloak-shrink-tumours-trial">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Pat Brogan preparing to walk his daughter down the aisle after trial of treatment designed to stop disease from hiding</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/01/cancer-drug-cells-invisibility-cloak-shrink-tumours-trial">Smart drug that strips cancer cells of ‘invisibility cloak’ can shrink tumours by 30%, trial shows</a></p><p>One of the first patients to benefit from a pioneering smart drug that appears to melt away the “invisibility cloak” that can shield cancer cells from treatment is Pat Brogan, from Cowdenbeath, Scotland.</p><p>The 68-year-old, whose tumours have shrunk by almost a third, is preparing to walk his daughter down the aisle this month and holiday in Spain with his wife, Linda – milestones he once feared he would never reach.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/cancer-patient-hope-after-smart-drug-trial-success">Continue reading...</a>
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Mathematicians are stunned at the progress AI is making in solving advanced problems, leaving some questioning whether there will still be room for humans
Alan Turing proposed a test for machine intelligence: could a computer convince a human it was human? We have begun conducting the same test on ourselves, writes Max Moser
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The FDA has missed a self-imposed deadline to ban the use of electrical shock devices in people with intellectual disabilities.
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