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Sustainable Development

Brain Implant That Could Reanimate Paralyzed Limbs Secures $16M In Funding

The National Science Foundation recently awarded the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington a $16 million grant for research that will h...

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Health

She Is 10. She Has HIV

The fifth-grader with cornrows stepped from an elevator at Children?? National Medical Center and walked over the polished tile floor she had first crossed in a baby carrie...

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Bollywood

Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon' Narrated By Farhan Akhtar Redefines Edutainment

Mumbai, November 18, 2015 (Washington Bangla Radio): To address regressive practices such as sex selection, early marriage, early and repeated pregnancies, under-nutrition ...

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Environment

Those Plumes Of Methane Leaking Off The Coast Of Washington Are Really Bad News For The Oceans

As the oceans absorb greater amounts of carbon dioxide from human-caused emissions, the waters off Washington and Oregon have become more acidic. That has forced some comme...

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Health

Skin-To-Skin Contact With Baby In Neonatal Unit Decreases Maternal Stress Levels

WASHINGTON, DC – Research shows that stable parent-child bonds are fundamental to healthy child development. For parents of babies born prematurely or with special me...

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Trending

Melinda Gates: Still Work To Do In Maternal, Newborn Health

Eight hundred women die every day globally from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite great strides in that area, philanthropist Melinda Gates said Monday. Ga...

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Festivals

Kadambari' Wins Best Film Award At Washington South Asian Film Festival

“Kadambari”, a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationsh...

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Festivals

Investigative Film Festival Opens In D.C.

The Founding Fathers thought so much of the power of the press they reserved a special spot for it in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Perhaps it’s appropri...

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Environment

China Commits To Addressing Climate Change For The First Time

Speaking from the White House lawn during his first state visit to Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping committed the country to a national cap-and-trade program for th...

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Festivals

Censored Women's Film Festival coming to D.C.

A collection of previously censored films made by women will be shown in Washington, D.C., in November. The films — part of the Censored Women’s Film Festival &...

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