With an endowment of $39.6 billion, and an annual grant support of about $4 billion, US-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is one of the leading private found...

A Scooter-Riding Bookseller Has Served Kolkatta Better Than Amazon Could Ever Hope To

From Vir Sanghvi to Aveek Sarkar, everyone is a fan of Tarun Kumar Shaw’s unique personal book home delivery service. If a book has been printed, and is in circulatio...

New Robotic Fish For Environmental Monitoring

A group of researchers from Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-UPM) in collaboration with researchers from University of Florence are designing autonomous underwa...

Drones Kill, Yes, But They Also Rescue, Research & Entertain

One day in 1945, the crew of the aircraft carrier Intrepid gathered on deck for a group picture with what looks like a model airplane, not too much larger than the radio-co...

Cancer Risk Tied To Pollution In Environment

Prolonged exposure to poor air quality appears to increase the risk of cancer, particularly breast and prostate cancers, a study in the US has suggested, bolstering evidenc...

Habitat Film Festival To Feature Om Puri Tribute Retrospective

Om Puri’s frequent collaborator, organised filmmaker Govind Nihalani, will host the retrospective segment on the veteran actor at this year’s Habitat Film Festi...

Stephen Hawkins Predicts How Many Days Earth Has Left

Stephen Hawking is at it again, filling our hearts with optimistic predictions about humanity’s boundless potential. Just kidding. His latest estimation gives us abou...

The Best Advise 11 Inspiring Women Would Give To Their College Selves

"You’re not even an engineer — why are you so involved in the movement to advance women in tech?” This is a question I’ve been asked multiple times ...

Two Women One Cause

They make an unusual team. Amal Clooney is an Oxford-educated human-rights lawyer married to a film star. Nadia Murad was born in a poor Iraqi village and once aspired to b...