Year: 2018

FILE PHOTO: A health worker sprays a colleague with disinfectant during a training session for Congolese health workers to deal with Ebola virus in Kinshasa October 21, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Media Coulibaly/File Photo

Congo, UN Deploy Specialists to Tackle Ebola Epidemic

Reuters 14/05/2018

Officials are racing to prevent the virus from spreading...

Ebola outbreak in Congo. Credit: EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo

Ebola in the DRC: How a Global and Local Response Has Been Mobilised

Nevashan Govender 13/05/2018

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the...

Artist’s impression of Proxima b, a planet orbiting the star Proxima Centauri within the closest known star system outside of our solar system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Find Alien Intelligence?

Michael P. Oman-Reagan 13/05/2018

To avoid a human-centred point of view in SETI...

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The Carbon Footprint of Tourism Revealed (It’s Bigger Than We Thought)

Arunima Malik and Ya-Yen Sun 13/05/2018

For the first time, research has quantified the global...

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Warning Signs: How Early Humans First Began to Paint Animals

Derek Hodgson and Paul Pettitt 13/05/2018

Figurative art may derive from Neanderthal hand prints and...

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Fill up Vacancies in State-run Hospitals, Bombay HC Tells Fadnavis Government

Petitioner Rakesh Bhamare from Malegaon cited replies to his...

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Western Ghats – a Major Source of Moisture for Monsoon

Raghu Murtugudde 12/05/2018

A new study points out that the evapotranspiration from...