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The Hipster Hunger For Superfoods Is Starving India's Adivasis
Every morning, Baisa, a forest-dwelling Karbi woman, gets up at 4 am to forage fresh wild edible plants and insects from the forest. At the market in Diphu, Baisa is able to s...
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Project Blue Wants To Photograph the Nearest Earth-like Planet
In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler space observatory into an orbit around the sun with the express purpose of using the satellite to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other ...
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Pesticides Stop Bees Buzzing And Releasing Pollen, Says Study
The world’s most widely used insecticides harm the ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out the pollen to fertilise crops, according to preliminary results from ...
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12th ADDA Short Film Festival Concludes In Guwahati
The 12th ADDA Short Film Festival came to a glittering end at the Jyoti Chitraban Film Studio recently. The festival was inaugurated by renowned Kamrupi folk singer Dhanada Pa...
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A Comic Heroine That’s Fighting The Evil Skin Whitening Industry
India’s beauty industry thrives on the country’s ugly obsession with fair complexions and skin lightening products. Prejudice against darker skinned people, especi...
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Dia Mirza Turns Artist Ambassador For Save The Children
With this association, Dia will help raise awareness about malnutrition, quality education, gender equality and child trafficking. She has also made an appeal in a video messa...
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Robert Downey Jr Honored At 4th Annual Wishing Well Winter Gala
Robert Downey Jr, Scooter Braun and the Los Angeles Kings were honored as heroes at Make-A-Wish Greater Los Angeles' 4th Annual Wishing Well Winter Gala on Wednesday evening a...
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The Hype Around Medical Genetics Could Be Bad for the Public
Science has always issued medical promissory notes. In the 17th century, Francis Bacon promised that an understanding of the true mechanisms of disease would enable us to exte...
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Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled in the Last 15 Months
A little over a year ago, it was big news that thousands of people and hundreds of institutions controlling more than $2.6 trillion in total assets had pledged to remove their...
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Nasa And Stephen Hawking Are Working On a Nano-Starship That Can Travel 1/5th The Speed Of Light
Nasa researchers have joined forces with Stephen Hawking to build a nano-starship that can travel one-fifth the speed of light. If successful, the ship, called “StarChip...
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