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The Saffire Experiment Will Study Real Fires in Microgravity

This combustible research project is slated for launch in 2016, and will be activated at a distance from the International Space Station to avoid, you know, setting our only o...

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DD Kisan Channel To Launch New Show On Savitribai Phule

Doordarshan is all set to launch a new show based on the life of social reformer Savitribai Phule titled as Savitri Ek Kranti. The show will be aired on Doordarshan’s DD...

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India Fixes Health Goals For Next 15 Years

India has set itself a challenging target to reduce maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births respectiv...

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Women Face Widespread Job Restrictions In India: World Bank

Women in India are not allowed to work in mining or in jobs that require lifting weights above a certain threshold or working with glass, according to a latest World Bank repo...

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Novel Antibody That Efficiently Attacks HIV Virus

The researchers from California Institute of Technology have discovered a new antibody that can make it easier to detect and neutralize HIV virus in an infected patient. Prote...

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Microbiologists Find Another 30,000 Year Old Giant Virus In Siberian Permafrost

For their part, scientists haven't had a very hard time finding those giant viruses. From a single sample of Siberian permafrost, they've managed to come up with two so far. T...

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For Students With A Mission: A Little Capital Goes A Long Way.

Rose Wang wants you to eat bugs. Two billion people in the world already do. Her new company, Six Foods — so named because six legs are better than four — sells Ch...

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Lack Of Women Professors Means Research Grants Are Skewed Towards Men

New research has shown that when women working in the social sciences apply for a research grant, they are just as likely as men to win funding. But while there is equality in...

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Christina Applegate To Be Honored At Wonder Woman Walk.

Award-winning actress and breast cancer advocate Christina Applegate and distinguished oncologist and women’s health advocate Dr. Philomena McAndrew will be honored for ...

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What Will Kill Us? Not Child Health And Maternal Nutrition

Poor dietary habits and high blood pressure have replaced child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe water, sanitation and lack of hand washing as leading risks for death globall...

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THE LAST LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY

As Sonam Wangchuk's fast enters its twentieth day, this essay examines hunger strikes wo...

July 18 2026

MAGDALEN OF THE CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO

Sohaila Kapur chronicles an unforgettable journey through Canada’s Magdalen Island...

July 17 2026

BATTLEGROUND TO BOARDROOM: INNER STRENGTH

A Series by Sushmita Chowdhary for WMN COMM: In this opening essay, the writer explores ...

July 16 2026