As another viral epidemic has taken charge of the headlines worldwide, on the domestic front news once again has surfaced regarding issues in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
As conditions in West Africa intensify, the current Ebola epidemic reaches new records, as the World Health Organization (WHO) reports 500 new viral infections that have now reached as far as Senegal.
While Google, Samsung and LG debut their new wearable gadgets, that can do everything from surf the web to keeping an eye on your health, those in the tech industry have anxiously been waiting for news from the Apple front. Where’s the iWatch? Well we may not have a conclusive answer as to when you can have it on your wrist, but some official documents courtesy of the US Patents Office show that the technology leader may have something up their sleeves after all.
Affected globally in recent decades due to multiple factors including climate change, pollution, habitat loss and fishery-related impacts, seabird species have become far more uncommon sites to be seen than ever before. Particularly vulnerable species, in all of their niché habitats, penguins have shown this effect as population sizes for the black and white birds have plummeted. In fact, all 18 penguin species face some sort of threat even today, as conservation efforts have become more well-defined. But researchers say that not all hope is lost for the penguin family.
For those in the gadgetry business, September is much like Christmas. It only comes once a year, and in the early Autumn month these intangible figures who are the Santa Clauses for cell phone industry release their newest spoils—the autumn launch. Year-round, through countless conventions, tradeshows and well-timed leaks, we hear about the innovations the companies are working on, but it isn’t quite until September that we actually can see a finished product.
With recent heatwaves breaking out across the northern hemisphere, you may think we’re approach temperatures like those on the surface of the sun. But it turns out the sun just got a bit hotter.
It's a question that comes out of the primordial soup itself: how did life that came from the sea begin to walk on land? It's a central debate for archaeologists, evolutionary physiologists and even chemists, that has long gone unanswered. But thanks to a small, whip-like fish equipped with lungs and the motivation to walk, researchers from the University of Ottowa have proven that necessity is a great means to an end.
In the dry lake beds of California and Nevada’s Death Valley National Park, more than a few reported anomalies have sparked urban legends and paranormal stories alike. But after years of pain-staking observation, it was a biologist, an engineer and oddly enough a planetary scientist who solved a mystery that has baffled man for ages.
