Dhaka Center wins Gates research prize
A center in Bangladesh that developed a cheap and easy treatment for childhood diarrhea will be the first winner of a prize endowed by the billionaire Bill Gates to recognize research on health
A center in Bangladesh that developed a cheap and easy treatment for childhood diarrhea will be the first winner of a prize endowed by the billionaire Bill Gates to recognize research on health
In coming months, most of Botswana's HIV positive men and women will gain access to the life sustaining drug cocktails that, for many sufferers in the West, have transformed AIDS from a killer into
A state of emergency was declared in China's central province of Hunan, where millions were under threat from water levels approaching those last seen during disastrous floods in 1998, officials
In a reshuffling of global auto alliances, a manufacturer affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp. said it would develop hybrid gas and electric power systems for Ford Motor Co.
A number of recent breakthroughs in cell research lend urgency to the decision President George W. Bush must soon make about federal funding for research involving human embryos.
Mice at the University of South Florida have been given mutated human genes that produce age-related brain degeneration much like Alzheimer's disease. To the astonishment of scientists conducting
Only days after Kentucky played host to the world's most famous horse race, the state is grappling with the disastrous consequences of hundreds of pregnant mares on its prestigious horse farms losing
After an uproar among scientists and polticians over a proposal to close a wildlife conservation center in Front Royal, Virginia, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution said that he was
About 200 people were feared dead in floods and landslides around China as the country continued to be battered by summer rains, officials said
Overfishing and global warming could prove a boon to one still largely mysterious creature that may already outnumber man - the squid. Some squid experts believe the speedy cephalopods are swiftly