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Challenging Cultural Norms Is The First Step Towards Gender Parity In India

Hailing from India and currently attending a nine month program in the US, I am struck by the differences and similarities between the women in the two countries and what they...

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Baby Lung Virus Vaccine Trials 'Offer Hope'

The first human trials of a new vaccine to prevent a leading cause of serious illness in babies have been a success, say researchers. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) affects...

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Why Clean Energy, Not Coal, Is The Solution To Poverty

It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion people live with...

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What Happened To Bill Gates Feces Water Machine.

Here’s an update to the machine that turns feces into water. Remember that time Bill Gates took a swig from a seemingly normal glass of water, but it turned out to be ma...

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How Can We Empower Women Entrepreneurs Around The World?

Since childhood, Gircilene Gilca de Castro dreamed of owning her own business, but struggled to get it off the ground. Her fledgling food service company in Brazil had only tw...

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Stand Up To Cancer With Patrick Dempsey And Fifth Third Bank.

Actor and cancer advocate Patrick Dempsey is lending his image to Fifth Third’s new Stand Up To Cancer #howifight campaign, which honors the many ways people fight cance...

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Cecil The Lion Killing Brings Calls For Extradition And Global Reckoning On Endangered Species

The killing of Cecil the Lion in a remote stretch of Zimbabwe has prompted an international reckoning over how countries protect endangered species and combat illegal hunting....

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How Real-Time Data Can Help Fight Cancer

In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemothe...

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Physicists Set a New Speed Record For Light-Emitting Quantum Dots

Researchers at Duke University have developed a light-emitting device that can be switched on and off up to 90 billion times per second. This 90 GHz is roughly twice the speed...

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Sports & Gender: A history Of Bad Science & ‘Biological Racism’

Life looked pretty good for Dutee Chand last July.Having become the first Indian sprinter to reach a final at a global athletics event in 2013, the 18-year-old was already the...

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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