Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
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A new snake becomes Instagram famous after its accidental discovery by a graduate student going on a nature walk in northern India.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
How will Harris' departure affect the remaining 15 candidates in the Democratic field?
Before you judge someone's personality based in their playlist, you may want to read the results of this study.
One of the world's deadliest diseases, malaria takes the life of a child every two minutes.
People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a day lost in their imagination
"Daydreaming can evolve into an extreme and maladaptive behaviour, up to the point where it turns into a clinically significant condition," scientists say.
The world's first malaria vaccine will be released in Ghana, Keyna, and Malawi in 2018. While malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951, it still kills over 400,000 people worldwide each year. Will this vaccine help eradicate malaria?
The European Geosciences Union predicts that over 70% of glacier volume in the Everest region could be lost by 2100. One man has engineered a solution so that life in these regions can go on.
How can we solve a problem like Malaria? One doctor has an idea: send in the mathematicians.
Despite decades of research, there is no reliable vaccine for malaria. Dr. Philip Eckhoff lays out the strategies and collaborations required to eradicate this disease and the half a million lives it takes each year.
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Why Banksy's dystopian vision of the future might be the kind of shock we need to realize the problems humanity faces.
The fantasies, institutions, and humans at Dismaland do not merely sometimes fail us — they are marked for death from the start.
The non-profit org Malaria No More, boosted by a grant from Google, is set to take advantage of Africa's over 1 billion mobile phones in order to fight a disease that kills 400,000 of the continent's children per year.
“All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.” – Malala Yousafzai
The decision rescinds a 2009 court order that originally allowed a Malay-language Catholic newspaper to use the word to refer to God and instigated a wave of church attacks across the country.
One of the country's most conservative religious parties sets the record straight after a statement was made on Christmas asking non-Muslims not to use the word.
A new report documents, for the first time, the public health impact of industrial pollutants on local populations in developing countries.
A drug-resistant strain of malaria first noticed in Cambodia in 2005 is increasingly seen in other parts of Asia. Experts worry it could spread to Africa, where a majority of malaria exists.
This past week, John Nash (fellow author of Education Recoded) and I have had the pleasure of presenting to faculty and students at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, […]
“Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend” […]
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As African temperature zones shift due to global warming, tropical diseases like malaria are affecting new populations—lack of previous exposure means lower immunity rates.
One Earth Designs aims to ignite innovation across the socio-environmental spectrum among Himalayan agricultural and nomadic communities, working directly with local stakeholders to ensure each invention is of real practical […]
For those of us who have been watching al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its predecessor groups al-Qaeda in Yemen and al-Qaeda in the South of the Arabian Peninsula (note […]
Issue 13 of Sada al-Malahim is out today, and while I won’t take the time to go through the whole journal (many other things to do), one thing did stand […]
As a couple of commentators pointed out in the comments section last night, issue 11 of Sada al-Malahim is now out. I downloaded it last night, but given my writing […]
Nayf Muhammad al-Qahtani’s article in Sada al-Malahim on Saudi’s most wanted list of 85 suspects gives some good background information on a handful of current leaders, particularly al-Wahayshi, Qasim al-Raymi […]
Well this is probably more of an insight into my social life than most would like, but the new issue of Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battles not the Glorious […]