While no New Zealand flight delays are expected as a result of a huge solar flare storm, flight communications are operating at a high frequency than normal to avoid communication disruption. 

The mixed messages over the use of mammograms for breast cancer screening have continued, with a new study suggesting their radiation may harm the women they’re supposed to save.

Dutch researchers have found that women with a family history of breast cancer or a genetic susceptibility to it may increase their risk of cancer by taking mammograms at a young age.

The problem is these are the women who are often told to start taking mammograms early on in their lives as a precautionary measure.

Rats exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week experienced poorer results on a memory test than the control group that hadn’t been exposed to the radiation.

Science Daily reports the experiments were conducted over a year at the Lund University Division of Neurosurgery in Sweden.

The researchers placed the rats in a box with four separate objects mounted inside. The objects were different on two occasions, and their placement was switched each time.