Our Cars Will Soon be Running on Four Loko
Image: Health Related Info I never did have the bad fortune to drink any Four Loko during the brief period of around four and a half minutes when it was legal to do so. Alas, the controversial...
View ArticleBP, Halliburton Likely to Face Criminal Charges Over Spill
Image via Freshness In light of the presidential report on the Gulf oil spill that’s due to be released next week, speculation is running rampant that the companies involved — BP, Halliburton, and...
View Article8 of the Greatest Conservation Triumphs of the Last 50 Years
Photo: RealGap A new study asserts that the epidemic of global species loss that we’re experiencing right now is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy — and that in order to turn the tide, we must...
View ArticleNew Oxford Study Reveals the Origins of HIV
A new study published in Science has traced the origins of the HIV-1 group M pandemic to 1920s Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While strains of HIV are known to have...
View ArticleNew Ebola outbreak strikes the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The deadly virus Ebola has returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A new outbreak of Ebola stuck the northwest town of Bikoro with 21 suspected cases of the virus. Out of five samples...
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