Posted August 31st, 2012 10,000 people at risk of hantavirus after Yosemite stays, CDC says   By Kate Mather (Los Angeles Times) A new nationwide advisory issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that as many as 10,000 people were at risk Read More >

Posted August 27th, 2012 World may be forced to go vegetarian by 2050, scientists say Cattle drink from a water tank in Tallula, Ill., Aug. 3, 2012. (Seth Perlman/AP) By Dylan Stableford (Yahoo! News | The Lookout) By the year 2050, you may be forced to become Read More >

Posted August 24th, 2012 What’s making the 2012 West Nile virus outbreak the worst ever? By Ryan Jaslow (CBS News) The West Nile virus outbreak of the summer of 2012 is on track to be the worst ever in the United States. Health officials said earlier this week that Read More >

Posted August 22nd, 2012 West Nile Outbreak Shaping Up as Worst Ever in U.S., Authorities Say By Donald G. McNeil Jr. (The New York Times) The nation is heading toward the worst outbreak of West Nile disease in the 13 years that the virus has been on this continent, Read More >

Posted August 21st, 2012 Ebola outbreak kills 10 in Congo By Joe Sterling (CNN) — The Ebola virus has killed 10 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said Read More >

Posted August 20th, 2012 Harvard stores 70 billion books using DNA Research team stores 5.5 petabits, or 1 million gigabits, per cubic millimeter in DNA storage medium By Lucas Mearian (Computerworld) Harvard researchers have been able to use sequencing technology to store Read More >

Posted August 16th, 2012 Camouflage robot changes colour for disguise By Rebecca Morelle (BBC News) A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by scientists. The machine, designed by researchers at Harvard Read More >

Posted August 15th, 2012 Oil prices rise on big drop in US supplies By Pamela Sampson BANGKOK (AP) — Oil remained above $94 a barrel Thursday in Asia after an unanticipated drop in U.S. crude inventories and stronger retail sales helped push prices to a Read More >

Posted August 14th, 2012 Soft autonomous robot inches along like an earthworm By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office (MIT News) Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of Read More >

Posted August 13th, 2012 Boeing technology allows drones to swarm like insects A ScanEagle drone, made by Boeing subsidiary Insitu, in mid-flight. (Boeing Co.) (Los Angeles Times) Engineers at Boeing Co. and Johns Hopkins University have devised technology that Read More >