10th May 2018
23,000 people die in the US every year because their infections are resistant to antibiotics.
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Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered thousands of species of micro-organism that don’t fit into any category known to science.
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The Mormon Church has broken all ties with the Boy Scouts, a relationship that lasted for over 100 years. Until now, 20% of all US Boy Scouts were Mormons.
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A woman in Nebraska is recovering from neurosurgery after doctors discovered what she thought was a runny nose was in fact fluid leaking from her brain.
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In the few months since the opening of the new Qatari National Library, every one of its 150,000 books has been borrowed at least once.
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In 2017, the worldwide value of cryptocurrency in 2017 was $600 billion. 11% of Japanese and 9% of Americans and Britons own some.