Mike McCune, MD, PhD, head of the HIV Frontiers Program at the Gates Foundation, delivered an upbeat message at the ASGCT annual conference in New Orleans last week, showcasing the progress being made ...

Since 2015, almost every country on Earth has been bound by the Paris Agreement to try and keep global warming below 1.5°C. But climate scientists now warn that this limit is too high.

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Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial baseline won’t be enough to stop sea levels from rising by several metres over the coming centuries, according to a review of all the ...

As one of the abstract styles developing in the 1960s, Optical illusion (or Op) Art features games of lines and geometric shapes in both black and white—like in the case of Bridget Riley, Jesús Rafael ...

As if that wasn’t dramatic enough, it currently takes around 23 hours for scientists’ command to reach Voyager 1, and then another 23 hours for the probe’s response to return to Earth.

scientists have concluded. Research led by Durham University in the UK suggests the target should instead be closer to 1 degree to avoid significant losses from polar ice sheets and to prevent ...

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We live in a medicated era. Recent data indicate that more than half of Americans are currently taking prescription drugs. Among pregnant women this number skyrockets to more than 80 percent. One of ...

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