Sustainable Development

How Close Are We To Closing The Gender Gap? This Map Will Tell You.

How close are we to closing the gender gap? That?s an extremely broad question that the World Economic Forum is attempting to answer with its annual?Global Gender Gap report, ...

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Is The Leap Second Good Or Bad? We Have Until 2023 To Find Out.

The leap second is an extra second of time added periodically to the world?s clocks, but some experts have raised fears it could throw off modern technology, including banking...

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Pigeons Could Help Detect Breast Cancer

The latest species to add to that list is the common pigeon (Columba livia). According to a study?by a team of researchers in the US published in?PLOS One, pigeons have an ama...

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Google Is Fixing a Dangerous Gmail Bug That Could Let Others Impersonate You

The flaw was spotted by independent security researcher Yan Zhu at the end of October. Zhu found that an attacker could send an email using a different name, and conceal their...

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3D-Printing Explains Why Your Food Smells So Good

Pretty much everything about food is awesome, but smell and taste tend to be the best parts. These two aspects of enjoying a meal are inextricably linked?the only reason you c...

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Bumblebees Are Teaching Smart Cars How To Drive

A newly-awarded research grant from the National Science Foundation is devoting $300,000 to a project to study the ways that bumblebees navigate, and to apply that i...

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CRISPR Technique Could ‘Turn Off’ Muscular Dystrophy Gene, Study Says

A recent paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy found that, at least for one disease, that may be possible very soon. According to lead researche...

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A Step-By-Step Guide To Terraforming Mars

It has been a long dream for humankind to discover another liveable planet. But because of severe conditions such as powerful solar winds and a lack of atmosphere, our good ne...

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Your Body Is Made Of Hydrogel, And Soon Robots Could Be Too

Researchers at MIT have detailed a new method to create synthetic hydrogels—polymer networks infiltrated with water—that stick to non-porous surfaces such as glass...

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A Chinese Photographer May Have Made The Perfect Gopro Stand

What’s ingenious about the stand is that it marks off common angles: 10º, 30º, 40º, and 45º, and you can adjust for negative or positive (high or low...

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FESTIVALS: UTPAL DATTA AND SANJEEV HAZORIKA HONOURED

Celebrating Excellence in Assamese Cinema and Journalism: Roopkar Awards 2023 and 2024 h...

January 11 2025

GENDER: STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY THROUGH GENDER EQUALITY

Uniting voices to encourage inclusive leadership, gender equity, and allyship for a stro...

January 10 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINEMNT: LESSONS FROM ORIGIN AND I AM A NOISE

From caste to race, inequality fractures humanity; love and action offer the only path t...

January 9 2025