the new

Ebola ‘leaves 12,000 orphans in Sierra Leone’

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...

Women's rights - how far have we come?

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...

Astronomers find star speeding out of the galaxy

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...

Study finds gorilla origins in half of human AIDS virus lineages

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,...

U.S. science probe nears unexplored dwarf planet Ceres

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...

'Coughing' bus shelter installed in Ayr town centre

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...

Speeding up the battle against slowing minds

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...

Urgent call for new drugs to treat causes of Parkinson’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...

Piltdown Man, Beringer’s lying stones, dinosaurs… are they all hoaxes?

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...

Michael Jordan might build his own golf course because mortals play too slow

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...
<< 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 >>