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Giant Prehistoric Viruses Could Be Awakened By Oil Drilling In Siberian Permafrost.

Several giant viruses have been discovered in the past decade, and although they have all turned out to be harmless, the findings have sparked fears that one day, humans co...

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Health

Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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Health

Baby Lung Virus Vaccine Trials 'Offer Hope'

The first human trials of a new vaccine to prevent a leading cause of serious illness in babies have been a success, say researchers. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affe...

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Health

The World’s Poorest Countries Could Finally Wipe Out Polio, As Long As The Rich One’s Don’t Bring It Back

On July 24, 2015, it will be exactly one year since the last case of poliomyelitis was detected in Nigeria. Once that’s officially confirmed, the country will get off...

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Sustainable Development

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

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Health

Why A Toilet Is A Great Birthday Present.

I just celebrated another happy birthday. I was a lucky kid, born in an American hospital with all the trained staff and technologies available at that time. Which is why a...

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Health

Open Defecation Affects Pregnancy Outcomes Too, New Study Finds.

Eradicating open defecation has become one of the biggest, and most daunting, challenges faced by the Narendra Modi government. Poor sanitation practices like open defecati...

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Health

Drastic Acceleration Of HIV Fight Needed To Stop AIDS Resurgence

The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and dise...

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Sustainable Development

Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

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