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International health experts are hunting for the virus that causes SARS, the flu-like disease that has killed 61 people worldwide more »
NASA has awarded $19.4 million in funding for 20 new IT research and development programs more »
Cyber-savvy Estonia, an ex-Soviet republic that has embraced information technology with the velocity of a Baltic Sea storm, will now teach other former communist states to do the same more »
Russia is on the brink of an AIDS catastrophe, experts say, that could lead to infection rates rarely seen outside sub-Saharan Africa more »
Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human Origins more »
Lithuania Among the World’s Fifty Three Most Developed Countries more »
A Tibetan graduate student is scheduled to lecture on Tibetan medicine at Harvard University for three months starting from early September more »
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AIDS researchers have announced a possible breakthrough with the discovery of a naturally occurring gene that effectively blocks the disease's progress more »