CANBERRA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Bushranger Ned Kelly's headless body has finally been identified in Australia, more than 130 years after his execution in the Old Melbourne Gaol, Victoria's Attorney- General Robert Clark announced on Thursday. Clark sai...
Scientists Infect Mosquitoes to Stop Dengue Australian researchers report success in attacking the insects that carry the dengue virus, a rarely fatal disease that nonetheless takes a huge toll in sickness and economic loss in the tropical areas wher...
Scientists Target Mosquito-Borne Illnesses Of all the disease-spreading insects in the world, the mosquito poses the greatest menace, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). As if to underscore that threat, two mosquito-borne viral diseases...
Scientists Target Antibodies That Work Against Many HIV Mutations The search for a vaccine against HIV/AIDS has been disappointing, in part because the virus cleverly changes to elude the antibodies of the human immune system. Now, scientists have id...
Polar Scientist Charts Melting Caused by Climate Change Michael Gooseff follows water to the end of the earth. The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing....
US Scientists Expand Scope of HIV Vaccine Study The worlds largest ongoing HIV vaccine study has been expanded to consider multiple ways a vaccine might boost immune response to the AIDS virus. The U.S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (N...
Scientists Closer to Developing Meningitis Vaccine Scientists may be on track to develop a vaccine for the most common strain of meningitis, which has so far resisted an effective vaccine. Meningitis is a serious disease caused by an inflammation of...
听歌学英语:The Scientist(Coldplay) 一直被称为Radiohead接班人的Coldplay(酷玩乐队),对每个听过欧美音乐的人应该都不会陌生。乐团由四人组成:主唱:Chris Martin ;吉他手:Jon Buckland ;贝司手...
Scientists Unravel Potato's Genetic Blueprint Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of the world's third most important food crop: the potato. Researchers from 26 institutions around the world worked on the project to sequence, or map, the po...
EXPLORATIONS - Scientists Call for Quieter Ships to Protect Whales BARBARA KLEIN: Im Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Our subject today is whales. We discuss a report on the effect of noise from...