‘Spray-on skin’ helps heal leg ulcers
A “spray-on skin” which coats a wound with a layer of skin cells could help healing, according to US and Canadian researchers. The spray was tested on 228 people with leg ulcers, which are...
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Ebola outbreak suspected among Uganda prisoners
Kagadi, Uganda (CNN) — The hospital at the center of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda is now dealing with 30 suspected cases, including five from Kibaale prison, Dr. Dan Kyamanywa said Thursday. Three patients at...
Scientists bend light the ‘wrong’ way
Materials that bend light in unnatural ways are often touted as the path to futuristic technologies such as cloaking devices and super-powered lenses. But such materials are hard to make, but scientists have now...
‘Fire rainbow’ over Florida
So-called “fire rainbows” are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning. They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water droplets of...
‘Virtual bacteria’ created by scientists
Scientists have created a “virtual bacteria” which mimics the way the organism works, in a breakthrough which could improve our understanding of disease and help find new treatments. The computer programme developed by researchers...
NYPD to launch surveillance software system
MYFOXNY.COM -The NYPD says it will launch an all-seeing “Domain Awareness System” that combines several streams of information to track both criminals and potential terrorists. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city developed the...
Rare Mountain Tornado Touches Down Near Mount Evans
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – It doesn’t happen very often, but Colorado had a rare mountain tornado touchdown near Mount Evans. Saturday afternoon at 2:51 pm. Thunderstorms strengthening over the mountains west of Denver...
Ebola breaks out in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about the cause of a strange disease...
Illegal Cloning? ‘Dumped fetuses could be half human, half engineered’
(multimedia) Hundreds of human fetuses, found in a forest in central Russia, may have been removed from a local medical university. Police are questioning a researcher, who was fired last year and could have taken...
Your phone company is watching
(multimedia) What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored about him. Multiple unanswered requests and a...
