Sea to rise by 3 metres
The worst-case scenario for sea-level rise just got even worse. If the latest numbers are correct, oceans could rise almost 3 metres by 2100. The new figure includes rapid loss of mass from the Antarctic ice sheet, and tops the 2013 IPCC estimate by 2 metres (Environmental Research Letters, )
The dope on sport
There were more than 1900 violations of anti-doping rules across 85 different sports in 2015, says the World Anti-Doping Agency. That鈥檚 14 per cent up on 2014. Of these, 280 infringements came to light via 鈥渆vidence-based intelligence鈥�, rather than lab tests, reflecting the agency鈥檚 push to expand its methods for discovering dopers.
Blink and it鈥檚 gone
Around 90 per cent of the Red Planet鈥檚 atmosphere was lost to space in just a few hundred million years. NASA鈥檚 MAVEN orbiter measured the ratio of two argon isotopes to work out how much had disappeared (Science, ).
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Cancer progress
Death rates for most cancers are declining in the US, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. Between 1999 and 2013, cancer incidence fell in men, but stabilised in women. Compared with the mid-1970s, five-year survival rates had increased significantly by 2012 for all types of cancer, except those of the cervix and uterus.
Turing Award
World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has been awarded the 2016 Turing Award, often described as a Nobel prize for computing. The Association for Computing Machinery credits Berners-Lee with inventing the web, the first web browser and 鈥渢he fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the web to scale鈥�.
