Orion’s launch – another giant leap in human space flight
Today’s Orion spacecraft launch is unmanned – but it heralds a return to US astronauts voyaging independently in space.
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Today’s Orion spacecraft launch is unmanned – but it heralds a return to US astronauts voyaging independently in space.
Nasa’s test flight of a capsule that could eventually bring humans to deep-space destinations like Mars has been postponed after problems with wind and misfiring valves.
The British government’s flagship Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone is running at only a fraction of its capacity as it continues to face challenges.
All is not going well at the British government’s Ebola treatment hospital at Kerry Town. The hospital officially opened on 5 November but is still running at only a fraction of its 92-bed capacity.
As research finds unacceptable levels of a bug that causes food poisoning in supermarket chickens, safety experts advise customers to cook birds thoroughly to avoid problems.
The risk of a not very deadly to humans strain of bird flu really does deserve headlines, even as the humanitarian tragedy of Ebola continues.
The European Space Agency’s attempt to land a craft on a comet is among its riskiest-ever missions. But if it succeeds, the prize cannot be overestimated.
Researchers have identified a new family of methane-producing bacteria called Chistensenellaceae that are found in nearly everybody’s guts, but are more prevalent in the bellies of thin people.
The world is at risk of soaring temperatures by the year 2100 unless gas and coal reserves are left in the ground, warns an international report on climate change.
Porton Down is where blood samples from suspected UK Ebola cases are sent – and the lab staff are the busiest they’ve ever been.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola outside Africa, Thomas Duncan, dies at a Dallas hospital, as the British government announces it is sending 750 military personnel to west Africa.
A Spanish nurse has tested positive for Ebola after helping treat a missionary doctor who was repatriated to Madrid last month.
The deadly Ebola virus has the potential to spread across the world in just three weeks, infecting people from places as far apart as the United Kingdom and China, scientists warn.
The US is now dealing with the first case of Ebola to spread outside of Africa. As the size of the epidemic continues to grow exponentially there is a very high chance it won’t be the last.
Today in New York the UN will sit down to talk about climate change. Again. But can one extra day of talking possibly make any difference to change the pace of action on global warming?