Technology

Scientists have developed a new kind of “antisense” drug that has produced promising results in laboratory trials involving the ebola and marburg viruses, two of the most lethal known. The drug works by blocking the […] […]

GIRLS with younger brothers become sexually active later than those who have only younger sisters or older siblings, research suggests. Scientists at the University of Western Australia found girls with a younger brother have sex […] […]

This could be the Canadian Big Bang Theory. After spending six weeks this summer tootling around Niagara Falls, Stratford and Waterloo, Ont. — creative ground zero for BlackBerry-maker RIM — famed physicist Stephen Hawking says […] […]

SCIENTISTS working on a breath test to detect cancer say they are now able to identify different types of the disease. Preliminary results from their research, printed in the British Journal of Cancer monthly, showed […] […]

A scientist who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases believes he may have found a key to how HIV manages to break through and infect a single cell. It may all come […] […]

PASSIONATE climate scientist Stephen Schneider has died while flying to London from a meeting in Stockholm, apparently from a heart attack. A long-time biologist and climate scientist with Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and […] […]

CLEARED of scientific fraud, climate scientists at Britain’s University of East Anglia might have hoped to quietly resume their research. But despite being exonerated by three separate inquiries, they continue to be hounded by climate […] […]

SCIENTISTS in Britain believe they have cracked the answer to the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg? Researchers have found that a protein called ovocleidin (OC-17) is crucial in the […] […]