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Married At 14, Abandoned By 15: The Forgotten Girls Of Dhaka

More than half of girls in Bangladesh marry before they are 18, exposing them to abuse. But if their husbands abandon them, it can offer a route to freedom On the northern out...

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Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nervous...

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Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 nati...

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The Silence That Still Surrounds Periods

Let’s begin with the obvious: Every woman in the history of humanity has, or has had, a period. Each month, her uterus sheds its lining, sending blood flowing out throug...

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Off-Label Use Of IPV Vaccine To Tide Over Shortage

Due to shortage of Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) globally, India and a few other countries are stretching the supply of the vaccine to cover all children. The IPV vaccine wa...

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Why Terms Like ‘Transgender’ Don’t Work For India’s ‘Third-Gender’ Communities

Sexuality's spectrum is littered with labels. One that is getting increased attention in the U.S. political discourse nowadays is "transgender." Generally speaking, the label ...

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An Image Processing Trick Shows Mars In Unprecedented Detail

Researchers have released images of the Martian surface at five timesgreater resolution than previously seen, and they didn’t need to send a new camera into space to get...

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This Map Tracks Thousands Of Cargo Ships To Highlight Their Carbon Emissions

The tiny specks of blue, red, and yellow on this world map depict the global pathways of tens of thousands of cargo ships.The interactive map, co-created by researchers from t...

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Harriet Tubman Is The New Face Of The $20 Bill

If you’ve got any $20 bills with Andrew Jackson’s face on them sitting in your wallet you might want to get them framed, because as of this morning they are a coll...

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An Epileptics Cinematic Journey: Films From My Perspective

As the title indicates, I have epilepsy. If you ran into me on the street, it’s not something you’d be able to tell about me by looking. That’s not how epile...

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STUDENT CITY PART 4

Written by Prof Dr Piyush Roy, Student City Part 4 revisits the emotional rivalries, cam...

May 14 2026

TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026