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UK's Catherine on first official foreign trip since cancer revelation
6+ hour, 16+ min ago (568+ words) Britain's Princess Catherine starts a two-day visit to Italy on Wednesday focused on early childhood development, in her first official foreign trip since her 2024 cancer diagnosis. The Princess of Wales, whose husband Prince William is the heir to the British…...
I applied to be pope: Losing grip on reality while using Chat GPT
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (1604+ words) Tom Millar thought he had unlocked the secrets of the universe. In a flurry of feverish discovery, he solved unlimited fusion energy, lifted the veil on the mysteries of black holes and the Big Bang and finally achieved Einstein's dream…...
Fabled Argentine city Ushuaia tries to shrug off virus suspicions
18+ hour, 56+ min ago (791+ words) Argentina's city "at the end of the world," Ushuaia, the jump-off point for expeditions to the Antarctic, is laboring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three cruise ship passengers. The MV Hondius set…...
All ESSE Care Physicians Earn Continued Recognition on Prestigious 2026 New York Rising Stars List
1+ day, 56+ min ago (206+ words) Dr. Karli Provost Goldstein, Dr. Leigh Rosen, and Dr. Amanda Chu honored for excellence in patient'centered gynecologic care The New York Rising Stars list honors a select group of physicians who demonstrate outstanding clinical skill, professional achievement, and strong peer…...
WHO chief says "work not over" after hantavirus evacuation
22+ hour, 20+ min ago (539+ words) World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness. The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked…...
What if we killed all mosquitoes?
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (817+ words) The deadliest animals are not lions, spiders or snakes, but the tiny mosquitoes that suck our blood, make us itchy and infect us with disease. Mosquitoes kill around 760, 000 people every year, according to research site Our World in Data, with…...
Dengue outpaces virus-blocking mosquitoes in Brazil
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (687+ words) Brazilian scientist Luciano Moreira tenderly handles a glass box of swarming mosquitoes infected with a bacterium that blocks the transmission of dengue. These mosquitoes have protected millions in Brazil, but the debilitating disease is spreading faster than the insects can…...
Vitamins over vaccines: misinformation entrenched amid Indonesia measles surge
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (760+ words) A surge in measles cases in Indonesia has made stay-at-home mother Fitri Fransiskha uneasy " but not enough to vaccinate her four children against the highly contagious and deadly virus. The 40-year-old is one of a growing number of parents in…...
Is sulphur the key to combat antimicrobial resistance?
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (366+ words) The issue of society needing affordable new materials to overcome this menace remains a real and present issue. The latest initiative to answer this call comes in the form of a multidisciplinary research team led by Flinders University with UK…...
US, French evacuees from hantavirus ship test positive
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (661+ words) An American citizen and a French woman evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive, officials said, as the repatriation operation continued on Monday. Following the positive test results, Spain defended the rigour of…...