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MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been heralded as the future of learning. The New York Times dubbed 2012 as ‘The Year of the MOOC’.
We’ve covered a lot of diseases over the past few years, but what we haven’t covered much of are the vectors that carry them. A
The International Space Station (ISS), orbiting some 220 miles above earth at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, is a modern marvel and the
As 2012 ends and we dive into another year, let’s take a moment to look back at some significant infectious disease outbreaks from 2012. Please
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published a report that used mathematical modeling to identify the U.S. airports that, in the event of
The plague, once a disease affecting mostly lower socioeconomic communities in the United States, has made a shift to middle and upper class neighborhoods over
Yesterday Nature magazine published an article covering two Australian studies that showed the ability of Wolbachia pipientis bacteria to stop reproduction of dengue virus