Pandemic Protection: An Ant’s Tale
They measure only three millimeters from head to toe, but as far as managing infectious disease is concerned, ants seem to be a huge step ahead of us.
They measure only three millimeters from head to toe, but as far as managing infectious disease is concerned, ants seem to be a huge step ahead of us.
GM crops successfully feed the world’s livestock, its cotton mills, and its biofuels industry. People, however, prefer conventional crops. Will food shortages force them to change their minds?
Humans have altered nature for thousands of years. Farmers have trimmed weeds into ever more productive grains and bred bigger, tastier animals. Is genetic engineering only the next evolutionary step or a step too far?
An earthquake in the Italian heartland has left many dead and thousands homeless. The catastrophe is the latest event in a series of seismic activity that will shake Italy and parts of Europe for centuries to come.
They measure only three millimeters from head to toe, but as far as managing infectious disease is concerned, ants seem to be a huge step ahead of us.
The world could save millions of lives and billions of dollars by making road travel safer thereby tackling a global pandemic more deadly than malaria.
