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The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced the launch of a new Accelerator Council for Vaccines against Tuberculosis following the example of COVID-19, when a totally new vaccine was developed in just one year. As Tedros highlighted during the conference 'Ending tuberculosis:how to achieve it?', coordinated this Tuesday within the activities of the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), this council will facilitate the authorization and use of new vaccines against tuberculosis, "accelerating the collaboration between funders, world organizations, governments and patients to identify and overcome obstacles to the development of vaccines against…

20 September 2014image source, Gettycaption, The first application of plutonium: the nuclear bomb.Plutonium is perhaps the most feared element on the entire periodic table.It is known to be the main ingredient in atomic bombs such as the infamous Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, which ended up killing 70,000 people. Japan surrendered six days later, but the threat of nuclear annihilation trapped the world for decades in the Cold War.However, the plutonium story is not all about Armageddon or the threat of the apocalypse. It also has to do with the incredible journey into the unknown.You've probably…

21 September 2014image source, Gettycaption, Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was named UN representative for climate change last week.Thousands of people took to the streets in various cities around the world to demand urgent action against climate change.The first demonstrations took place in Australia, as part of a global mobilization that included nearly 2,000 marches.The protesters argue that if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced the world will experience more droughts, forest fires and storms.The protests culminated in New York where the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, celebrities, business leaders and environmentalists participated.The day of protest took place two days before…

The Mars Atmospheric and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) probe has traveled more than 700 million kilometers. Their mission is to study how the red planet lost its water.