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At Least One Dead And 30 Missing After Oil Rig Catches Fire In The Caspian Sea

The rig reportedly went up in flames when a gas pipeline in the oil field was damaged in heavy wind. SOCAR, the Azerbaijani state energy company operating the rig, said oil pr...

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A Japanese Probe That Was Lost In Space For 5 Years Has Finally Made It To Venus

Back in 2010, Akatsuki was launched into space to study the surface of Venus. While the spacecraft reached the planet on 7 December 2010, it didn’t quite enter orbi...

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Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen To Be Women

Everywhere you look, odds appear stacked against women in STEM. Young male scientists receive up to twice as much funding as their female counterparts in Boston&rsqu...

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Sanofi?? Injectible Polio Vaccine (IPV) Launched In Hyderabad

Sanofi Pasteur has launched ShanIPV, an injectable inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), to be delivered through UNICEF in India. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao launc...

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El Niño’s Causing Havoc Around The Globe — And Could Make 2015 The Hottest Year On Record

It’s too early to say whether year’s recurrence of El Niño will end up being the most powerful on record, but it’s expected to be among the top conten...

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Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space junk a...

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Future Babies Don’t Sway Career Path In College.

A new study aims to debunk the idea that future family plans sort male and female college students into different careers. Despite decades of efforts to banish the idea of &ld...

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Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicating...

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China's 'Airpocalypse' Prompts Official Pledge to Cut Pollution

China will lower emissions from major polluting power plants by 60 percent by 2020, Chinese officials announced on Wednesday. The commitment?comes amidst ongoing climate chang...

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This Space Mission Could Upend Our Basic Notions of Newtonian Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton probably didn't get conked on the head by a falling apple, but by many, if not most accounts, there was an apple and it did fall in his presence. Having witne...

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THREE STORIES DEMANDING OUR ATTENTION

From an acclaimed Himalayan love story to conversations on body shaming, food safety, cy...

September 30 2026

HEALTHY BOUNDARIES SHAPE SECOND CHANCES

A Rebounce survey of 9,283 previously married Indians reveals how healthy boundaries wit...

September 29 2026

SHAKUNTALA NAGARKAR: DEATH IN THE SADDLE

A tribute by Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe to legendary Lavani exponent Shakuntala Nagarkar, who...

September 28 2026