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Zap to stop puking
A brain zap could stop motion sickness. A team at Imperial College London put volunteers in a special chair designed to make anyone motion sick within minutes. Half wore a cap that applied an electric current to dampen responses in the brain area that deals with balance. They lasted much longer than the others before feeling sick (Neurology, ).
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Ian Pears on his new novel Arcadia which is designed to be read on an app. The app helps readers navigate the novel鈥檚 complex structure and lets them choose what order to read it in.
Starfish killer
It鈥檚 payback time. A robot with a lethal injection will seek and destroy the crown of thorns starfish that eat coral on the Great Barrier Reef. A team at the University of Technology Sydney used photos and video to train their robot to recognise the starfish. It has completed its first swim and will be tested on the reef later this month.
