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Turkey Kurdish wedding bomber ‘may not have been child’ From BBC Image caption Most of the victims of the bombing were children, media reports say AFP Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says authorities do not know if a suicide bomber…
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Oxitec CEO: This is the worst-case scenario for unleashing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild
By Lydia Ramsey From Business Insider Public-health officials are doing everything in their power (and budget) to prevent infectious diseases like Zika, yellow fever, and dengue from spreading. But the bugs that transmit those diseases, specifically the Aedes Aegypti mosquito,…
Puerto Rico reports first death from Zika-linked paralysis
By Harriet Agerholm From Independent UK ‘What does this tell us? That all of us are susceptible,’ says epidemiologist Puerto Rico has reported its first death caused by paralysis relating to a Zika infection. The US territory in the Caribbean has…
Olympics: laws of physics
The Olympics are the perfect way to see how the laws of physics work in the real world By Ali Sundermier From Business Insider Rio Olympics We could do this every two years. Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images When you think of…
Force Blue: Giving Warriors a cause. Giving a cause its Warriors
International non-profit organization to retrain veteran combat divers to restore coral and promote conservation; Grand Cayman to be first training site Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – Ailing reefs and the warrior spirit – a combination that could be a winning…
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Zika found to remain in sperm for record six months
From BBC The Zika virus has been found in the sperm of an Italian man six months after his first symptoms, twice as long as in previously reported cases. Doctors at the Spallanzani Institute for Infectious Diseases in Rome said…
Cayman Islands: Zika virus update: Third locally transmitted case
Acting Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Samuel Williams-Rodriguez, has made public the latest information on the transmission of the Zika virus within the Cayman Islands. “Since the last update of Tuesday, 9 August 2016, eight additional results have been received…
Russia has released the first official footage of its new 5th-generation fighter
By David Choi From Business Insider In honor of Russian Aerospace Force Day, the Russian Ministry of Defense has released its first official footage of the fifth-generation stealth aircraft, the PAK FA Sukhoi T-50. The government unveiled the montage of…
A storm like the one in Louisiana should only happen once every 500 years
By Max Plenke, Mic From Business Insider Last weekend, nearly two feet of rain fell on parts of southern Louisiana in the span of two days, leaving at least 10 people dead and over 20,000 in need of rescue. A…
An 18-year study of bees finally sheds light on something that may be wiping them out
By Meghan Bartels From Business Insider For years, there’s been suspicion that a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids are bad for bees. The chemicals, which farmers apply to their crops to keep away insects that munch through their harvests, are…
