The cancer death rate dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 161.2 (per 100,000 population) in 2014, the latest year for which data was available to analyze. Image Credit: Flickr/stroudlisa
A steady decline over...
Sourcewater provides users with a list and interactive map of all available fresh and wastewater, treatment facilities, shippers, and other water-based services. Users can search based on price, location, water quality, and other parameters to reduce the distance, cost,...
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a record 103 satellites — all but three of them foreign — at one go on a single rocket in the first week of February in what will be a...
A lay health worker or community 'Grandmother' conducting a problem solving therapy session with a patient on the Friendship Bench.Image Credit: Grand Challenges Canada / ZAPP
In Zimbabwe study, Friendship Bench therapy reduces prevalence of depression to <14%, compared to...
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Efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act could take away health insurance from millions of Californians, while also eliminating 209,000 jobs and costing the state economy $20.3 billion in GDP, says a new report from the...
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In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological developments that open up a completely...
The National MagLab's new series connected hybrid (SCH) magnet successfully broke the record this week during a series of tests conducted by engineers and scientists. Credit: Florida State University
After a decade of planning, designing and building, the Florida State...
USB stick that tests for HIV. Credit: Imperial College London / DNA Electronics
Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick.
The device, created by scientists at Imperial College London and DNA Electronics, uses a drop of...
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The medals to be distributed to athletes at 2020 Tokyo Olympic will be made from recycled and obsolete electronic products, organizers announced on Wednesday, as they look to give the Games an environmentally friendly hue.
"Medals made with...
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If you're reading about the US election, some of that news is likely to come to you from a "bot."
Automated systems known as "bots" or "robo-journalism" have been around for years, but they are playing...
Engineers conduct a white light inspection on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first...
