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Published on Thursday in the medical journal The Lancet, a latest two-part comprehensive report could be billed as the biggest and most detailed analysis of the present research on breast-feeding worldwide, and will be helpful in bringing about change in the United States and globally.

Over 1,300 studies, including some commissioned particularly for this report, which is dedicated to the levels, trends and advantages of breast-feeding.

If we talk about the health implications solely, new estimates produced for the report have significantly scaled up breast-feeding to near-universal levels for new-born children and young children, which might save 820,000 children's lives per year worldwide, preventing 13% of all deaths of children below five.

A new study suggested that resistance to a leading HIV drug is common across the world and could mean problem for treating and preventing the virus that leads to AIDS.

Researchers have reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that in some parts of the world, over 50% of people, who have been suffering uncontrolled HIV despite treatment have turned out to suffer from a kind of the virus that is resistant to the drug tenofovir,.

Senior author Dr. Ravi Gupta, of University College London said that the latest study has suggested that treatment and monitoring of HIV patients worldwide reuire improvement, and surveillance should also be increased.

US disease detectives have turned on a full outbreak mode over the Zika virus. They have gathered a team of hundreds of experts in an attempt to better understand its impact as its spreading in the Americas.

While speaking to Reuters, agency officials said that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has devoted an emergency operations center on duty around the clock to deal with Zika, a mosquito-borne virus associated with severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, on Sunday.

Such command centers were set up by the CDC to deal with the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and the Haiti cholera epidemic that started in 2010. However, this time, the team consists of
many more experts on pregnancy given the strange impact of the mosquito-spread-virus.

Bill Nye, the Science Guy, announced on his blog that racing electric cars by National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) are capable of changing the world, but he also accused the venture of considering an outdated transportation technology.

Nye wrote in a blog for Aeon that NASCAR should think about electric cars that may provide a new, smart and efficient transportation technology to the world and help slow down climate change. Today, world needs transportation technology of tomorrow and NASCAR is capable of offering that technology, but the racing outfit is doing the opposite, according to the 60-year-old science educator.

More than 80% of coral reefs in the Cayman Islands, an area declared protected for past 30 years, were destroyed by a huge luxury yacht on January 14. The yacht belonged to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who was not on board during incident.

The damage came to notice when a diver alerted the crew that anchor chain had been destroying the reefs, the area under damage was nearly 14,000 square feet that accounts for 1,300 square meters. Corals are necessary for the marine life.

Allen would be fined $600,000, excluding civil damage. Allen's five-deck Tatoosh at 92.42 meters (303.21 feet) is the 49th largest yacht in the world. It comprises two helicopter landing pads, an observation lounge and a gymnasium.

SpaceX and Boeing were given certificate of approval to take spacecraft carrying astronauts to and from International Space Station (ISS) in year 2014. SpaceX will have its first mission to space in 2017 that would be its first crewed flight. In an initiative to make spacecrafts suitable for the mission, SpaceX has tested its Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully over Coolidge, Arizona. The Dragon capsule was carried by a C-130 aircraft; this capsule used four large parachutes for landing the astronauts.