India unveils vaccine for diarrhoea virus
INDIA: Scientists unveiled Tuesday an affordable
vaccine against a deadly diarrhoea - causing virus that kills over
100,000 children in India every year. Rotavirus, which causes
dehydration and severe diarrhoea, is globally responsible for around
453,000 deaths annually and is particularly threatening in Africa
and Asia,
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40 YEARS LATER, is Skylab II on the horizon?
US: Four decades after the United States’ first
space station roared into orbit, a second version of the
groundbreaking craft may be on the horizon.NASA launched the Skylab
space station 40 years ago Tuesday (May 14), turning the modified
third stage of a Saturn V moon rocket into Amerca's first off-Earth
astronaut abode. Now,
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US drone makes first catapult launch off a carrier
US: The US Navy successfully launched an
unmanned plane off the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first
time Tuesday, in what officials called a breakthrough for robotic
aviation. The bat-winged X-47B drone took to the air after being
launched by a catapult aboard the George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier
off the coast of Virginia,
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