Tibetan toll
China’s Qinghai province is recovering from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit on 13 April, killing around 2000 people. The United States Geological Survey says the quake occurred because the Indian plate is colliding with Asia, causing this part of the Tibetan Plateau to move eastwards.
Halting hepatitis C
Hepatitis C virus – which causes liver cancer and cirrhosis and infects nearly 200 million people worldwide – may have met its match. An experimental drug stopped it replicating in test tubes and reduced the levels of virus in eight people with hepatitis C by a factor of more than 1000 (…
