UN reports see a lonelier planet with fewer plants, animals
Monday, 23 April 2018, 10:23
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports that provide the most comprehensive and localized look at the state of...
Study finds obesity robs the tongue of taste buds in mice
Friday, 20 April 2018, 11:03
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Packing on pounds seems to dull people's sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. If Tuesday's findings pan...
Q&A: The debate over the 'right to try' experimental drugs
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 11:01
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The idea is a political crowd-pleaser with a catchy slogan: giving desperately ill patients the "right to try" experimental medicines. Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday...
Influenza's wild origins in the animals around us
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 10:58
Last update: about 9 years ago
The Conversation
In the early 20th century, the leading cause of death was infectious disease. Epidemics erupted with little warning, seemingly out of the blue. When the “Great Influenza” struck in 1918,...
Neurosurgeon answers questions relating to brain injuries
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 10:56
Last update: about 9 years ago
More than four years after a ski accident caused him a near-fatal brain injury, little is known about Michael Schumacher's current condition. Updates on his health have been extremely scarce ever...
An opportunity of a lifetime
Tuesday, 17 April 2018, 08:55
Last update: about 9 years ago
Forty-two young reporters from 24 countries came together in Portugal between 15 and 19 March in a first time workshop led by Unesco and the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) through the...