Health & Science

Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 16:16 UTC
Mosquitoes never rest: they rapidly develop resistance to insecticide treated nets

Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a new study from Senegal suggests. In recent years the nets have become a leading method of preventing malaria, especially in Africa.
Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:01 UTC
King crabs found on the edge of Antarctica as a result of warming waters

King crabs have been found on the edge of Antarctica, probably as a result of warming in the region, scientists say. Writing in the journal Proceedings B, scientists report a large, reproductive population of crabs in the Palmer Deep, a basin cut in the continental shelf.
Monday, September 5th 2011 - 01:16 UTC
Brazilian university students fined for promoting a “rodeo of fat girls”

Two Brazilian university students who organized a “rodeo of fat ladies” in the social network under the name of Orkut will have to donate 20 minimum salaries (approximately 6.650 dollars) to organizations that combat chemical dependencies and gender violence.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:49 UTC
US doctors performed STD experiments with Guatemala patients killing at least 83

Medical experiments performed by United States doctors deliberately infected more than 1,000 Guatemalans vulnerable patients with syphilis and gonorrhoea in the late 1940s, killing 83 of them, a US presidential panel said this week.
Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 00:40 UTC
FAO urges readiness against possible major resurgence of H5N1 avian influenza

FAO urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence of the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza amid signs that a mutant strain of the deadly Bird Flu virus is spreading in Asia and beyond, with unpredictable risks to human health.
Friday, August 26th 2011 - 13:01 UTC
Lager beer yeast arrived in Europe from Patagonia 500 years ago

The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have travelled 11,000 kilometres from Patagonia, (Argentina) to Bavaria 500 years ago.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:26 UTC
Australian entomologists find cheap way of neutralizing dengue virus mosquitoes

By infecting mosquitoes with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls, researchers have stopped the insects spreading the dengue virus.
Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:01 UTC
World’s largest camera to survey 300 galaxies from an observatory in north Chile

“The camera that we built is really very similar to the digital cameras you can buy at Walmart or wherever” Brenna Flaughter told US National Public Radio. “But this camera is big — its guts fill a shiny cylinder that's about the size of a car engine”.
Friday, August 19th 2011 - 09:59 UTC
First complete map of Antarctica ice flow speed and direction

The first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica will help scientists to track future sea-level increases, according to the team behind the project.
Wednesday, August 17th 2011 - 07:22 UTC
Conference to upgrade international movement of horses in South America

The FEI (International Equestrian Federation) and the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) will jointly host a conference in Guadalajara, Mexico on 24 October focusing on modernizing international movement of horses in South America.