By Donna Lu Hurricanes could be common on Earth-like exoplanets3DSculptor/Getty Images Earth-sized rocky exoplanets that orbit small, red stars might have intense hurricanes, according to an analysis of exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs – stars much smaller and cooler than our sun. Thaddeus Komacek at the University of Chicago in the US, and his colleagues used…
By Leah Crane An artist’s impression of exoplanets around the nearby red dwarf star GJ 887Mark Garlick Just 11 light years away from Earth a pair of hot, rocky worlds orbit a small, red star that is unusually calm. The fact that these objects are so nearby – in cosmic terms – makes them relatively easy…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara