# 32: Science Highlights Daily | 2018-09-18

This is a curated articles about the latest discoveries in science and interesting articles tackling technology and society.

A third of us would go one-way to Mars – but it may shrink your brain: Clare Wilson

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New Scientist Asks the Public has revealed that 40 per cent of men want to go to Mars, but new evidence suggests the lengthy trip may be bad for your brain

Why wouldn’t you want to live forever? New Scientist editors debate:

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More than half of UK adults would turn down an offer of immortality. Emily Wilson doesn’t understand why – but Richard Webb certainly does

Only one in five UK adults would choose to live forever if they could: Graham Lawton

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New Scientist Asks the Public has revealed that only 21 per cent of people would be keen to become immortal, should it ever become scientifically possible

Revealed: What the UK public really thinks about the future of science: Graham Lawton

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The 2018 New Scientist Asks the Public survey reveals that people are well-informed about science and technology, but politicians are ignoring their hopes and fears

Honeybee swarms act like superorganisms to stay together in high winds: Yvaine Ye

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A honeybee swarm behaves like a superorganism by changing shape in response to physical stress – although doing so means individuals take on a greater burden

Skin genetically engineered to destroy cocaine could prevent addiction: Andy Coghlan

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Engineered skin cells inserted beneath the skin of mice help destroy cocaine in the blood before it reaches the brain – and the therapy might work in people too

Hydrogen can form ‘ghost bonds’ with something that isn’t even there: Andy Coghlan

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Chemists have worked out how to trick hydrogen into making a distant bond with nothing but thin air

Why a rake on the moon messed up our theories of life on Earth: Leah Crane

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We may have overestimated how many meteorites have hit the moon and Earth in the last 500 million years because Apollo astronauts didn’t dig deep enough

Heart-tugging tales of crowdfunded cancer ‘cures’ fuel quack medicine: Michael Marshall

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Media stories about people with cancer seeking controversial cures are unwittingly bolstering unscientific and potentially harmful treatments, says Michael Marshall

The Higgs hunter has just turned 10. Why is nobody celebrating?:

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The Large Hadron Collider unleashed unprecedented euphoria when it switched on, but the search for the true nature of reality has proved harder than we thought