What Does The Future Hold For Bird Flu Research?
In a hotel ballroom in New York City, a couple hundred flu researchers watched with interest Monday as a government …
Embarrassed By Your Olympic Javelin: Did Cavemen Do It Better?
Stronger, faster, fiercer, finer. That’s what the Olympics promise us — higher performance, new world records. But not if you …
Weekend Special: The Miracle Of The Felt-Tipped Pen
I guess things get swallowed all the time, but this tale (from a hospital case study in Devon, in Britain) …
Two More Nearing AIDS ‘Cure’ After Bone Marrow Transplants, Doctors Say
The so-called Berlin patient is famously the only person in the world who has been cured of HIV. But he …
Changing The Image Of AIDS
Photographer David Binder began documenting stories about AIDS in the late 1980s and became well-known for humanizing the epidemic for …
Massive Ice Melt In Greenland Worries Scientists
A pair of NASA satellite images taken just four days apart tells a potentially worrying story of melting ice in …
Epidemics Prefer Changing Planes In JFK Over ATL
When the next epidemic comes, there’s a good chance it will switch flights at John F. Kennedy Airport in New …
Tie My Shoes, Please: How Persuasion Works
Marketers, managers and panhandlers all have something in common: They regularly want to make you do things they want. Marketers …
Which Is Bigger: A Human Brain Or The Universe?
This is one of those fun-to-think-about questions. A brain isn’t much to look at, after all. It’s about the size …
Bird Flu Researchers To Meet About Research Moratorium
Top influenza researchers around the world published a statement back in January saying they would temporarily hold off on any …
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