Journal retracts paper linking vaccine and narcolepsy
A paper that once promised to help unravel a medical mystery — why some children developed narcolepsy after receiving a flu vaccine — has been retracted. Read more
A paper that once promised to help unravel a medical mystery — why some children developed narcolepsy after receiving a flu vaccine — has been retracted. Read more
The rover that NASA is sending to Mars in 2020 will carry seven instruments geared to choosing just the right rocks to collect and store for future return to Earth. They include several firsts for Mars, including a zoomable camera, a machine to generate oxygen from carbon dioxide, and radar to explore geology up to half a kilometre deep. Read more
Phew. Five experimental geckos that were feared lost in space have phoned home, restoring hopes that research into their zero-gravity sex lives can go on. Read more
The US National Institutes of Health would see its budget worries eased if a longtime political champion gets his way. Read more
The run-up to the 20th International AIDS Meeting, scheduled to wrap up on 25 July in Melbourne, was overshadowed by news that a three-year-old child once thought to be cured of HIV still harbors the virus — and by the horrific crash of Malaysian Airlines flight 17, which claimed the lives of six conference delegates. Read more
The president of the Scripps Research Institute intends to leave his post, according to a statement from Richard Gephardt, the chair of the institute’s board of trustees. The announcement came in the wake of a faculty rebellion against the president, Michael Marletta, who had attempted to broker a deal in which the La Jolla, California, research lab would be acquired by the University of Southern California for $600 million. Read more
The Giant Magellan Telescope received a boost today when Brazil’s São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) confirmed its plans to join the project. The $880-million facility, currently under construction, is one of three competing megatelescopes that will study the skies in the next decade. Read more
Two people have acquired the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus within the continental United States, the state of Florida’s Department of Health announced today. The cases, one in Miami-Dade County and another in Palm Beach County, confirm that the virus has infected US mosquitoes. Read more
Google’s fleet of city-mapping cars are now working to measure urban natural gas leaks. Read more
After making it across 8.5 kilometres on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is now facing some of the most dangerous terrain it has ever encountered. Read more
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