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Plan Now for Future Ebola Outbreaks
Diagnostics, vaccines and new drugs could vastly improve the way future Ebola outbreaks manifest in Africa, according to emerging infectious disease expert Jeremy Farrar. Steve Mirsky reports.
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Louisiana Scuttles Medical Conference Plans Over Ebola Fears
Organizers of tropical medicine meeting to offer refunds, swap out speakers -
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Virgin Galactic's Passenger Spacecraft Crash Kills Pilot
One pilot is dead, and one injured after SpaceShipTwo failed during a rocket-powered test flight over Mohave, Calif. -
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Drones Learn to Swarm [Video]
Insectile drones could evolve into useful minions to track, map, and respond to climate change -
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Hints of Progress in the Ebola Fight
The number of Ebola cases appear to be dropping in Liberia—but what will it take to stamp out the disease? -
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Book Review: Symbiont
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New Artifact-Filled Chambers Revealed under Teotihuacan
Rooms beneath the mysterious city contain jade statues, jaguar remains and thousands of other objects -
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Rocket Explosion Prompts Doubts about Commercial Spaceflight
This week’s fiery failure of Orbital Sciences’s Antares rocket has some wondering if the company has the right stuff to support NASA’s goal to outsource orbital flights -
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Combing the Atmosphere with Lasers to Measure Global Warming Pollution
Scientists prepare an inexpensive, accurate tool to track greenhouse gas concentrations -
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How to Win Friends and Influence Ducklings
How should you treat your ducks? The answer is mired in duckling politics -
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Science Looks into Immortal Pets
A new experiment will study life span extension via an antiaging drug administered to domestic dogs -
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Bacteria Lowers Mosquito-Transmission of Malaria, Dengue
Mosquitoes that harbor a soil microbe called Chromobacterium Csp_P have a harder time catching dengue virus and the malarial parasite. Christopher Intagliata reports -
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How to Turn Around Troubled Teens
Research reveals that get-tough tactics may worsen rates of juvenile delinquency -
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Let’s Talk about Ebola Survivors and Sex
As more patients recover from the infection, what risk do they pose to their sexual partners? -
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Two Suspected Ebola Cases Reported in Mali, 57 Contacts Sought
Two people are suspected of having Ebola after coming into contact with a two-year-old girl who died of the disease in Mali last week, according to WHO data -
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India Considers Ban on E-Cigarettes, Sale of Single Smokes
India is considering a ban on electronic cigarettes over the risks to public health that they may cause -
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U.S. Envoy to Report Temperature Twice Daily after West Africa Visit
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power returned to New York on Thursday after a brief visit to Ebola-stricken West Africa and will report her temperature twice daily to the New York state health department for the next 20 days. -
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Public School Lifts Ban on Girl Barred over Ebola Fears
A 7-year-old girl banned from attending school in Connecticut over fears that she may be carrying the Ebola virus after a trip to Nigeria will be allowed back on Frida -
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U.S. Quarantines "Chilling" Ebola Fight in West Africa
Mandatory quarantines ordered by some U.S. states on doctors and nurses returning from West Africa's Ebola outbreak are creating a "chilling effect" on Doctors Without Borders operations there -
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Health
Tiny Stomachs Grown in the Lab
The artificial human guts could be used to study diseases and test drug treatments
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