Russian mining disaster claims 9 lives in Russia
A mining disaster in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk Friday claimed the lives of at least nine workers and injured more than 100 others. The mine was full of coal when the methane gas…
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How Ozanimod Could Hold Big Potential For Crohn’s Disease
Covidien announced on Monday that Merck (MRK) said that a final analysis of its clinical trial involving an investigational single-tablet immunotherapy called Ozanimod for Crohn’s disease showed that the drug had a modest impact…
Bus catches fire killing 12 Bulgarian children
Image copyright AFP Image caption The bus was destroyed by the fire Twelve children and a woman have been killed when a bus they were travelling in caught fire in Bulgaria, an official says….
Rick Perry reassures Nancy Pelosi he’ll keep funding to fight methane emissions
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Washington on Thursday, and renewed his offer to create a national program to reduce methane emissions, which he hopes to spend up…
The Face Of Afghan Women Around The World
By now you might know of their “Free the World” tour where they performed at four other NYC venues, which included the famous Beacon Theater. And a New York photographer recently spotted them out…
How to keep your employees happy
Written by By Staff Writer Adam Donachie, assistant professor of astronomy at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management An average American living in Southern California isn’t likely to consider “wanting to find life beyond Earth”…
A peek inside the life of the Australian ‘godmother of genomics’
Overcoming doubt may be key to bringing these rare species back from extinction The invention of a method of “pushing and pulling” a key molecule through the body to reverse genes that cause multiple…
Venezuela presidential elections 2018: What’s at stake?
Nicolás Maduro was elected president of Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves in the world, in May 2013 by a minority of 0.8%. His election was contested. The opposition held opposition primaries,…
A quarter of Americans have a high blood pressure reading
Written by By Jenna Mansfield, CNN Nearly one in five adults with hypertension in the United States takes medication that increases blood pressure, new research indicates. Published in the Journal of the American Medical…
A Nigerian city rising fast at risk of invasion from ‘ecological disasters’
By Patrick Wallor An article in Saturday’s New York Times profiled the rise of a burgeoning white-collar city east of Lagos, Nigeria, that is being demolished by an increasing number of man-made ecological disasters:…