BY FRIARONWATER An ob-gyn who has just delivered a new born baby after a caesarian section realizes that his patient’s uterus has been so weakened by the previous five caesarians she has had over the past ten years that he does not think that he can repair the woman’s...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will allocate $20 million over two years to research alternatives to human foetal tissue. The use of these human foetuses for research is not illegal in the USA, but it is highly controversial since this...

Date:January 7, 2019Source:University of Sussex Researchers at the University of Sussex, Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have for the first time used game theory to enable robots to assist humans in a safe and versatile...

By Amy Qin HONG KONG — Artificial intelligence bots. 3-D printed human organs. Genomic sequencing. These might seem to be natural topics of interest in a country determined to be the world’s leader in science and technology. But in China, where censors are known...

By Reuters VALLETTA — Malta's armed forces saved 180 migrants in two rescue operations in the Mediterranean on Monday, less than 24 hours after picking up another group of 69. The army said a patrol boat picked up 28 migrants from a dinghy 71 miles (114 km)...

Experts say ambitious project could offer relief from city's humid weather By Colleen Barry If Italy's fashion capital has a predominant colour, it is grey – not only because of the blocks of neoclassical stone buildings for which the city is celebrated, but also...