Category: 7. SciTech

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have identified new ways to combat tuberculosis and reduce bacterial resistance, developing three new antibiotics derived from scorpion venom and habanero peppers.

A team led by Lourival Domingos Possani Postay, from the…

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this week.

Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve so much and touch so many lives.

Across his seven decade career with the BBC, Attenborough ushered in the transition from black and white to colour television. He gave…

Cruises are so closely associated with illness that the highly contagious norovirus is commonly called the “cruise ship virus.”

But a ship headed for Spain’s Canary Islands has attracted global attention due to a rare outbreak of hantavirus that’s left three dead. While alarming, health…

For decades, a diabetes diagnosis has relied largely on measuring blood sugar and seeing whether it crosses a clinical threshold. But researchers increasingly worry that approach misses millions of people already progressing toward disease.

Globally, diabetes has become one of the defining health…

Flying cows, SUVs soaring through the air like toys, quaint towns that are virtually wiped off the map. Hollywood certainly makes…