As the World Health Organization inched closer today to raising the infectious disease alert level to its highest stage – and to a decision on whether to manufacture a vaccine against the novel
H1N1 influenza virus – delegates to the
WHO congress in Geneva urged the agency to change its criteria for increasing the alert level.
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The World Health Organization is not expected to make a recommendation on producing a vaccine against the novel
H1N1 influenza virus until next week, but GlaxoSmithKline said today it would begin work on a vaccine as soon as it receives a supply of the virus from the agency.
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Texas may soon have an invasion of zombie fire ants, but that is a good thing.
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Chemotherapy could soon become less grueling.
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A 40,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative representation of humans and sheds new light on the origins of art, researchers reported today.
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A safety inspection of the space shuttle Atlantis, on a mission to repair the Hubble telescope, has turned up minor damage in the area where the right wing joins the fuselage,
NASA announced today.
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The space shuttle Atlantis successfully blasted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a challenging 11-day mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Taking folic acid supplements for a year before conception reduces the risk of premature birth by at least 50%, researchers reported Monday.
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The long-lived rover Spirit is stuck in the sand on Mars, and controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caņada Flintridge are scrambling to find a way to extricate the vehicle before it becomes entombed on the Red Planet.
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After 19 years of service, during which time it has provided the most eye-popping images ever of galaxies, nebulae and, most recently, of a planet orbiting an alien star, the Hubble Space Telescope is suffering the pains of old age.
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