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Scientists Can Now Store Digital Data In DNA With 100 Percent Accuracy

All the digital data we're creating—44 trillion gigabytes by 2020—has to go somewhere. The "where" of the near future, many researchers believe, will be on DNA str...

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Air Pollution Leads To More Drug Resistant Bacteria, Study Finds

Black carbon found in air pollution can increase the resistance of bacteria that cause respiratory disease, research has found. The discover could lead to a greater understand...

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Tribeca Film Festival Unveils 2017 Feature Film Slate (Full List)

World premiere movies starring Burt Reynolds, Zachary Quinto, Jenny Slate, Jon Hamm, Al Pacino and Debra Winger, plus documentaries about Whitney Houston, Frank Serpico and Gi...

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Let Your Next Corporate Gift Also Help India’s Rural Artisans

Thank a client, reward an employee, or celebrate new and continuing business. Celebrate a colleague’s success, reward a team player, pamper a client, or simply make a sp...

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Vidya Balan Speaks Up In Support Of Gurmehar Kaur

Gurmehar Khan, the Delhi University student, recently created a stir online with her post against the ABVP student organisation. While the daughter of an Indian Army martyr ha...

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Normani Kordei Of Fifth Harmony Named As American Cancer Society Global Ambassador

The fight against cancer hits close to home as Kordei’s mother, Andrea, is a breast cancer survivor having been diagnosed when Normani was just 5 years old. “I remember se...

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5th Veda Session at Whistling Woods

Mumbai 28th February 2017: The auditorium of Whistling Woods International (WWI) reverberated with sounds of enthusiasm and excitement, as the National award winning choreogra...

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The Unintended Consequences of Technology

An article of mine on the “Technologies of Taste” has just come out in Technology & Society, a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engin...

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Japan’s Gender-Bending History

I’m an anthropologist who grew up in Japan and has lived there, off and on, for 22 years. Yet every visit to Tokyo’s Harajuku District still surprises me. In the e...

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Introducing Gynopedia: The Wikipedia For All Your Sexual Health Needs

It’s Sod’s Law. You have no gynaecological complaints for months – then the second you step off the plane en route to your exotic hotel or far-flung hostel, ...

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PRIDE, IDENTITY, COURAGE, FREEDOM, REPEAT

In this Pride Month conversation, Vinta Nanda speaks with Salim Asgarally about identity...

June 19 2026

WHY MOTHERS ECLIPSE FATHERS DAILY

Monojit Lahiri explores why Mother’s Day commands greater emotional resonance than...

June 18 2026

HINDI CINEMA: UNDER HOLLYWOOD’S HAT

Khalid Mohamed recalls the impact (and copycatting) of Hollywood cinema and its gossip j...

June 17 2026