“Invisible ink” causes votes to not be counted

I find it impossible to believe that anyone would simply accept this explanation. Yet apparently, many did. I also find it difficult to believe that this was not an intentional shenanigan intended to influence the outcome of an election, especially given Chicago’s long reputation for corruption.
My question is, why didn’t these people just [...]

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Yes, that is a snake

Photo: Reuters

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AIDS vaccine: how close are we?

Scientific American takes a look at the research into AIDS, a decade after President Clinton set a goal to find a vaccine within ten years:
Global spending for HIV vaccine research increased from $186 million in 1997 to $759 million in 2005, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. The IAVI helped to move [...]

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Embryo with three parents?

In the quest to produce infants without inherited diseases, scientists experiment with incorporating a third parent.
(LONDON)—British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
Though the preliminary research has raised [...]

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Maternal stress and schizophrenia

According to a new study, maternal stress during early pregnancy results in significantly higher risk of the child later developing schizophrenia.
The study group consisted of 1.38 million births recorded in Denmark, from 1973 to 1995. Children were followed from age 10 until their death, their departure from Denmark, the onset of schizophrenia or the end [...]

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