Noted

123RF

View full image

Oncologist Anees Chagpar of the Yale Cancer Center reported at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research on “really depressing” study results: in a survey of 171 melanoma survivors, more than a quarter said they never used sunscreen, and two percent still used tanning beds. Another Yale finding is much more optimistic: at an American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, YCC chief of medical oncology Roy Herbst ’84, ’84MS, described “amazing responses” to immunotherapy advances against melanoma and other cancers.

A bowl of cereal gave geology and geophysics postdoc Andong He food for thought: what caused the objects floating in the milk to clump together? InEurophysics Letters, He and collaborators at Brown presented a mathematical explanation of the “capillary interaction” that governs the behavior of objects near each other in fluid, from Cheerios to aquatic seeds and water striders.

View full image

Athletes take heart. The ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator), a device similar to a pacemaker, treats potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias. Doctors often advise ICD patients to avoid sports more strenuous than golf and bowling, but a new study in Circulation by cardiologist Rachel Lampert and colleagues could change that. They analyzed 372 athletes with ICDs and found many could safely participate in sports such as running, soccer, and basketball.