More than 20 years have gone by since scientists first started to conduct research on HIV, and yet there is no vaccine against it. HIV affects some 39 million people worldwide, according to data from the World Health Organization.
Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. David […]
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Nowhere near an HIV vaccine
Published February 17th, 2008 in Science, Innovation and Human World. 2 CommentsDoes sensory deprivation make people more suggestible?
Published January 27th, 2008 in Science, Body & Mind and Human World. 2 CommentsEver wonder what would happen if you were left alone in the dark for days? This is exactly what six volunteers have done for a BBC Horizon documentary. The experiment is set out to determine whether this technique, known as sensory deprivation, makes people more suggestible. For two days, psychologist Ian Robbins has monitored six […]
Global astronomy celebrations in 2009
Published December 26th, 2007 in Science, Space and Human World. 1 CommentThe United Nations has finally declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA 2009). The decision comes in the 62nd General Assembly and after years of talks between Italy and the promoters of this initiative - UNESCO and the International Astronomical Union.
The IYA2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the first use of the telescope […]
New discovery raises hopes for malaria treatment
Published October 31st, 2007 in Science, Innovation, Body & Mind and Human World. 3 Comments A new finding could bring scientists one step closer to a possible treatment for malaria, a disease that claims most lives in third world countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
The work has been reported by a team of researchers at Edinburgh University, in the US, Mali and Kenya who studied a population of 567 African […]
On-going Ebola outbreak in Congo
Published September 30th, 2007 in Science and Human World. 2 CommentsMore than a decade ago, the city of Kikwit in DR Congo (Africa) was struck by a major Ebola outbreak that killed 200 people. A few weeks ago, about 400 km west of Kikwit, in the country’s West Kasai province, another outbreak drew attention from several NGOs and the World Health Organization.
The WHO issued […]
Is there Intelligent Design behind the Universe?
Published September 19th, 2007 in Science and Human World. 20 Comments One of the old-age questions is how the Universe came into existence and life developed in it. Some people believe that there could be an intelligent design behind the cosmos, but is that true? An answer to this conundrum has been provided today by a scientist at the University College Dublin in Ireland.
During his […]
Darfur, home to a man-caused disaster
Published June 15th, 2007 in Science and Human World. 10 CommentsToday I would like draw attention to Darfur, a sub-Saharan region in western Sudan currently suffering the consequences of one of the world’s worst man-caused catastrophes. Not only do people die there because of an on-going ethnic conflict - that according to UN estimates has killed more than 200,000 people and made more than 2.5 […]