Opening Minds about Open Defecation

Open defecation, although, is on a decline worldwide, it is still widely practiced by 950 million open defecators in the world, 569 million of which are in India.

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Scientists Once Gave Dolphins LSD In Attempt To Communicate With Them

Scientists once gave dolphins the hallucinogenic drug LSD, in an attempt to communicate with them. Funded by NASA, the Communication Research Institute, informally known as...

Designers On Acid: The Tripping Californians Who Paved Our Way To The Touchscreen Universe

Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture and LSD-taking creatives  Next time you dra...

In Disposable Mucus Houses, These Zooplankton Filter The Ocean

Swimming hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface in many parts of the world are prolific architects called giant larvaceans. These zooplankton are not particular...

India’s Forest Cover Increasing, Better Than World Average, Says Union Environment Secretary

Ajay Narayan Jha, secretary, ministry of environment and forests, said at the inauguration of the 19th Commonwealth forestry conference that began at the Forest Research In...

Growing Mega-Cities Will Displace Vast Tracts Of Farmland By 2030, Study Says

Our future crops will face threats not only from climate change, but also from the massive expansion of cities, a new study warns. By 2030, it’s estimated that urban ...

‘Reproductive Health Services, Female Education Can Slow Population Growth’

The analysis says achieving the SDGs set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7...

Dementia Will Soon Be Controlled Just Like HIV, Says Research Institute

Alzheimer's may in some cases be as manageable as HIV/Aids by 2025, the head of Britain's new Dementia Research Institute (DRI) predicts. Professor Bart De Strooper said he...

India’s Hunger Crisis Worse Than Bangladesh, Nepal

Reductions in the prevalence of undernourishment, child stunting, child mortality and child wasting (low weight for height) have led to the improvement in Global Hunger Ind...