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Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Universit Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, deployed the first practical, web-based implementation of a secure, verifiable voting system for the presidential election held at UCL earlier this week.

Fabric softeners, disinfectants, shampoos and other household products are spreading drug-resistant bacteria around Britain, scientists have warned. Detergents used in factories and mills are also increasing the odds that some medicines will no longer be able to combat dangerous diseases.

Amid all the forecasts and warnings of doom and disaster issued by climate scientists there is the hidden message that all is not yet lost.Ice sheets are melting and ocean acidity is rising, yet most scientists still believe that global warming can be controlled.

Eating lots of curry may help you lose weight, research suggests.Scientists believe that haldi, or turmeric, which is used in most Indian meals, has an active ingredient that can help fight obesity .

A team of 24 researchers from the U.S., Europe, Taiwan and Japan and led by University of Illinois scientists has engineered a new anti-cancer agent that is about 200 times more active in killing tumor cells than similar drugs used in recent clinical trials.