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Airplane Poop Could Help Track Global Disease Outbreaks

IN THE SUMMER Of 2013, Researchers At The Technical University Of Denmark Headed To The Copenhagen Airport For A Special Delivery: Poop. The Crew Who Clean Out Airplane Toi...

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Stephen Hawking Hosts First Ever Reddit AMA

While advances in artificial intelligence are poised to solve some of humankind’s most difficult problems, iconic theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking cautions that ...

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Stephen Hawking Hosts First Ever Reddit AMA.

While advances in artificial intelligence are poised to solve some of humankind’s most difficult problems, iconic theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking cautions that ...

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Hollywood

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Returns In August

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Eventually, people with ALS lose the ability to initiate and contr...

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Health

A New Report Identifies 30 Technologies That Will Save Lives In The Next 15 Years

President Obama wasn’t the only head of state visiting Ethiopia this summer. In early July, the United Nations brought global leaders to Addis Ababa, for the third an...

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Health

On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa.

An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral th...

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Bollywood

Farhan Akhtar To Spread Awareness About Influenza.

The campaign is an educational initiative by Sanofi Pasteur India, the vaccines division of pharmaceutical company Sanofi and supports the cause to create awareness on seas...

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Health

AIIMS Docs Pitch For Cheaper Treatment Of Diseases

Increasing cost of healthcare is worrying AIIMS doctors. They have written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to set up a task force to identify and validate ...

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Health

New Single-Dose Drug May Treat Malaria

A new drug may treat malaria in a single dose and prevent infection being transmitted by mosquito bites to other people, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have fo...

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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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