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06.03.2015 16:29
The devastating impact of the Ebola crisis
was laid bare this week with a report
showing more than 12,000 children have
been orphaned by the disease in Sierra
Leone.
They have been identified in the first
national survey of orphans, which was
conducted by the British charity Street
Child. It says...
06.03.2015 16:27
This year’s International Women’s
Day celebrations on 8 March
bookend a milestone in women’s
rights. Soon after, world leaders
will descend on the UN in New York
to take stock of how much they have
achieved in the 20 years since a
historic meeting in Beijing, where
they promised to protect...
06.03.2015 16:24
Astronomers have found a star hurtling
through the galaxy faster than any other, the
result of being blasted away by the explosion
of a massive partner star, researchers said on
Thursday.
The star, known as US 708, is traveling at
about 746 miles (1,200 km) per second, fast
enough to actually...
05.03.2015 15:00
Revealing new
details about the origins of AIDS, scientists
said on Monday half the lineages of the main
type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1,
originated in gorillas in Cameroon before
infecting people, probably via bushmeat
hunting.
HIV-1, which causes AIDS, is composed of
four groups,...
05.03.2015 14:58
- A NASA
science satellite on Friday will wrap up a
7-1/2-year journey to Ceres, an unexplored
dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter, scientists said on
Monday.
The Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid
Vesta before firing its electric ion engine to
continue on to Ceres, a...
05.03.2015 14:42
People waiting at the stop can hear the sound
of a man coughing before a woman is heard
urging people to visit their GP if they, or
someone they know, has had a cough for
three weeks or more.
The shelter has been placed in Sandgate, in
Ayr's town centre.
Run by the Scottish government's...
24.02.2015 17:04
Christopher Devas has Alzheimer’s
disease , the most common form of
dementia. For his wife, Veronica, this not
only means watching Alzheimer’s rob
Christopher of his memory and identity, it
also means watching their shared
memories slip away.
“Close couples are joint custodians of each
other’s...
23.02.2015 16:20
Deryal Wood was 45 when she first began
to suffer tremors in her hands. Her
symptoms slowly worsened and she was
diagnosed nine years ago as having early
onset Parkinson’s disease. “I was given the
drug L-dopa. The tremors disappeared,”
she said.
But the tremors returned a few years later
and...
23.02.2015 16:07
The history of palaeontology is littered
with examples of famous frauds and fakes,
often with eminent researchers in the field
being thoroughly hoodwinked by some
fairly shoddy fabrications.
One of the most famous is Piltdown Man.
Discovered in a gravel pit in Sussex in
1912, a few ancient-looking...
21.02.2015 15:28
Ever since his dunking days, one of NBA
legend Michael Jordan's greatest passions has
been playing golf. Sometimes, he gets into
beefs with U.S. President Barack Obama over
the game; other times, he casually double-
fists cigars while watching the world's best.
Now, Jordan is reportedly...
