Author: Dennis Normile, Science

  • Dengue reported in Japan

    After reporting the country’s first domestically acquired case of dengue fever in nearly 70 years yesterday, Japan’s health ministry today confirmed finding two more patients. The initial patient, a girl in her teens, had a sudden onset of high fever on 20 August and was hospitalized in Saitama City, near Tokyo. Hospital staff, suspecting dengue,…

  • How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs

    Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long ago scientists calculated that an hour’s worth of sunlight bathing the planet held far more energy than humans worldwide could consume in a year. I firmly believe that India should accelerate…