Priorities

What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods

The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013. Suicide also emerge...

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Untold Thousands Of Patients Misdiagnosed As Vegetative Are Actually Aware. Theirs Is The Civil Rights Fight Of Our Times

Seasoned nurse came up to me after a lecture I’d given at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She seemed shaken by my talk and I was surprised. She worke...

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ESA’s Swarm Mission Is Mapping How the Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Changing

The Earth’s magnetic field acts as a shield, protecting us from damaging cosmic rays and harsh solar winds. It’s as important to our survival as water and oxygen, ...

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Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species

Twenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tuesd...

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School Praised For Installing Gender Neutral Toilet To Include Trans 6-Year-Old

A school in Auckland, New Zealand has been praised for installing a gender-neutral toilet to help a 6-year-old trans kid feel accepted.The Board of Trustees at the school gave...

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India Misses Millennium Development Goal 5

Under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the target for India was to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Based on the UN Inter...

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A First For The Country, Maharashtra Bans Social Boycott Ordered By The Khaps

Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to ban village councils from imposing social boycotts. In the majority of cases, it is women and people from lower classe...

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NASA Is Investing In Growable Habitats And Sleep Chambers

Through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC), the agency invests in many seemingly impossible technologies. Known for taking out-of-the-box concepts that s...

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Shell Oil Spill Prompts Renewed Calls For A Moratorium On Oil And Gas Development In The Gulf Of Mexico

A leak from an undersea pipeline network in the Gulf of Mexico released nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil before being discovered and shut down, federal regulators said. Roy...

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The First Transgender Politician Was Just Elected To Congress In Philippines

Geraldine Roman made history this week as she became the first transgender politician to be elected to public office in the Philippines."The politics of bigotry, hatred and di...

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IFFD 2026 OPENS GLOBAL DIALOGUES

IFFD 2026 - A Festival of Dialogue, Discovery and Global Exchange: With Oliver Laxe&rsqu...

March 20 2026

DELHI FESTIVAL CHAMPIONS INDEPENDENT CINEMA

The International Film Festival of Delhi 2026 launches a dynamic platform uniting mainst...

March 19 2026

MOTHER DAUGHTER BOND AND CHANGING DYNAMICS

Today’s Ma–Beti Relationship…Has Buddyhood Replaced Mamta?! Can a mot...

March 18 2026