Shuttlecocks on a badminton court in Indonesia. JAKARTA: Badminton-crazy Indonesia is concerned a deadly bird flu outbreak could claim an unlikely victim —...
Shuttlecocks on a badminton court in Indonesia. JAKARTA: Badminton-crazy Indonesia is concerned a deadly bird flu outbreak could claim an unlikely victim —...
Her eyes see nothing, but when Barbara Appel runs her fingers over the face of a Picasso sculpture in New York’s Museum of...
By Azera Parveen Rahman From asking dieticians to draw up cafeteria menus to conducting counselling sessions to keep them fit, multinational companies and...
Washington: Only about 30 percent of people in the US know how to perform CPR. And that statistic makes the story of one...
Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demonstrates the nanopatch to nurses at Port Moresby hospital. By Kate Kelland When it comes to protecting millions of...
SYDNEY: Breakthrough X-ray research mapping how insulin works at a molecular level could lead to new diabetes treatments and end daily needle jabs...
By Genevra Pittman One-third of people getting a CT scan didn’t know the test exposed their body to radiation, in a new study...
By Kathleen Raven Adults with excessively dry hands were four times more likely than healthy counterparts to fail computerised fingerprint verification tests in...
by Alyssa Rosenberg To celebrate its 110th anniversary, the magazine Popular Mechanics has published a fascinating list of 110 predictions for the next...
by Ian Sample A woman who is paralysed from the neck down has stunned doctors with her extraordinary skill at using a robotic...
by Maria Cheng Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with...
A child affected by Down Syndrome takes part in a dolphin therapy session at the cultural and health centre Nemo in the Belarus...
by Ben Hirschler An experimental vaccine based on a molecule related to DNA protects animals against influenza and may one day offer an...
by Julie Steenhuysen Two international teams of scientists have identified a rare mutation in a gene linked with inflammation that significantly increases the...
Children build a snowman in a public garden following an overnight snow storm in Grenoble, France, yesterday.
By Casey Seidenberg Despite an obesity epidemic in the US and other Western states, many toddlers and children are underweight. Parents repeatedly ask...
