By Laura Blue
Who says video games are a waste of time? World of Warcraft a virtual online world where millions of players quest for power, wealth, and magical items has got public-health experts considering new ways to track the spread of disease.
That’s the message behind a new paper appearing this month […]
The biotechnology company Celgene said Sunday that it would pay $2.9 billion in cash and stock to acquire Pharmion, strengthening Celgenes cancer drug portfolio and its distribution in Europe.
It is one of the first big acquisitions for Celgene, a company most known for reviving the drug thalidomide, which caused birth defects in the 1950s […]
SAN FRANCISCO Nice work if you can get it. That’s the consensus of fairly affluent, well-educated fathers who stay home full time with their children, according to a pioneering study released over the weekend.
About 159,000 men in the USA are full-time fathers, more than triple the number a decade ago, Census data show. […]
FORT MOTT STATE PARK, New Jersey: When mutant, muscle-bound puppies started showing up in litters of champion racing whippets, the breeders of the normally sleek dogs invited scientists to take DNA samples at race meets here and across the United States. They hoped to find a genetic cause for the condition and a way to […]
VALENCIA, Spain: The blunt and alarming final report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released here by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, may well underplay the problem of climate change, many experts and even the reports authors admit.
The report describes the evidence for human-induced climate change as “unequivocal.” The rise […]
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