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Apples iOS App Store suffers first major attack
Posted in Online on 21st Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Apple is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular software outlet.
Melting polar ice could wake up frozen viruses
Posted in Science on 9th Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Melting polar regions are already causing unprecedented sea level rise but there are other threats besides water buried in the swiftly melting ice.
Short sleepers are four times more likely to catch a cold
Posted in Science on 1st Sep, 2015
by Alex Muller
Scientists have long known that sleep is important for our health, with poor sleep linked to chronic illnesses and disease susceptibility.
Universal flu vaccine comes closer
Posted in Medicine on 24th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller
Researchers say they are closer to developing a vaccine to give life-long protection against any type of flu, after promising trials in animals.
Ebola crisis in Guinea 'has set back malaria fight'
Posted in Medicine on 25th Jun, 2015
by Alex Muller
Malaria deaths since the Ebola outbreak began will far exceed the number of Ebola deaths in the country, which now stand at 2,444.