Oregon man bitten by stray cat diagnosed with plague
Health officials have confirmed that an Oregon man has the plague after he was bitten while trying to take a dead mouse from a stray cat. The unidentified man, who is in his 50s,...
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Sinking South Pacific Islands: Climate Change or Tectonic Shifts?
Environmentalist organizations have used images from South Pacific islands to illustrate the disastrous effects of rising sea levels. But a group of French researchers has found that the problem is much more complicated: The islands...
“A major healthcare crisis – not in the making, it is happening now.”
In an atmosphere that has become increasingly electric before Greece‘s crucial election, the far-right Golden Dawn has ratcheted up the rhetoric by threatening to remove immigrants and their children from hospitals and kindergartens. Earning loud...
NASA’s Fermi Detects the Highest-Energy Light From a Solar Flare
(multimedia) During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi’s new role as a...
U.N. Climate Organization Wants Immunities Against Charges of Conflict of Interest
The organization responsible for managing a global cap-and-trade system worth billions of dollars for carbon emissions projects around the world is trying to get sweeping legal immunities for its actions, even as it plans...
Bath salts becoming a ‘severe problem’ in Florida
(multimedia) Fox News interviews a Florida Sheriff regarding the synthetic drugs linked to a number of alarming incidents.
Chip-based human organs to revolutionize drug development
(multimedia) Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are developing microchips comprising the cells and functionality of human organs. These organs-on-a-chip represent an advance that could prove revolutionary for pharmaceutical companies who spend billions of dollars testing...
U.S. experiences second warmest May, hottest spring on record
Lower 48 also experienced record warm year-to-date and twelve-month periods The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during May was 64.3°F, 3.3°F above the long-term average, making it the second warmest May on record. The...
Honeybee virus: Varroa mite spreads lethal disease
A parasitic mite has helped a virus wipe out billions of honeybees throughout the globe, say scientists. A team studying honeybees in Hawaii found that the Varroa mite helped spread a particularly nasty strain...
China faces ‘serious’ epidemic of drug-resistant TB
WASHINGTON — China faces a “serious epidemic” of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a new US-published study. “In 2007, one third of the...
