By releasing specially bred mosquitoes that can't transmit viruses, scientists have been able to virtually eradicate dengue fever from the city of Townsville, Queensland, in north-eastern Australia – and they say the same methods could be scaled up

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And cooking the shit out of it won't necessarily protect you.

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The German public debt has dropped below €2 trillion for the first time in years thanks to robust economic growth. Public debt in Germany sank to €1.967 trillion in 2017, marking a drop of 2.1 percent in comparison with 2016, figures released by the statistics office (Destatis) showed on Thursday. The €42.1 billion drop in public debt levels is a result of high tax intakes from a booming economy and historically low interest rates.

Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig.

Wells Fargo said it has set aside $8 million to compensate customers that were wrongly denied mortgage modifications.

Apple founder Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs tells all in new book

In Sunday tweet, Trump admits 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer was to "get information" on Clinton.

For companies like JPay, the business model is simple: Whatever it costs to send a message, prisoners and their families will find a way to pay it.

Scientists discovered a new space-borne mineral in the Uakit meteorite from Russia. The new mineral is very hard but still not as hard as a diamond.

Social isolation can be as unhealthy as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and loneliness affects nearly half of Americans—but few organizations are addressing this critical psychosocial risk factor. Here are three strategies, shared by leading organizations, to address the epidemic.

Researchers wanted to know why certain infections were increasing in hospitals. They were surprised by what they found.

Barnes & Noble said sales of books related to anxiety are up more than 25 percent through this past June from a year ago because "we may be living in an anxious nation." Shoppers are increasingly looking at workbooks that help them cope with anxiety, Barnes & Noble senior director of merchandising, Liz Hardwell, said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. Although times may be tough, wrought with political tension, "the good news is that book buyers across the country are also looking for solutions to their stress," she said.

Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the map’s perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size.

A new legal filing by the powerful gun group against the state of New York paints a grim picture.

Holland is home to a thriving community of journalists and bloggers who cover criminals and the drug trade. Those writers are often targeted by their subjects—and so was Martin Kok.

Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars and e-cigarettes. But, with lithium close to breaking point, researchers are scrambling for the next battery breakthrough

Do you remember Pizzagate? It’s a little like that: a web of baseless conspiracy theories. And its supporters were highly visible at an event for the president in Florida.

Exclusive: Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy

The future of the space station is up in the air—or rather, a vacuum.

How a group of ex-Apple employees went from insanely great to greatly insane, accidentally inspiring a generation in the process

Experts say the state’s increasingly ferocious wildfires are not an aberration – they are the new reality

Trump escalates his attacks on the Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten to twenty seconds for a basic news article.

Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD

“Transportation” — or the act of losing yourself in a book — makes you more empathetic, more creative and (hello!) it’s an escape.