What Happens When We Find Unknown Life?

We often get derailed in conversations about alien life by focusing on little green men and the like, but the reality of trying to find life is much more profound: As astro...

Bodies Are The Key To Human Intelligence—What About Machines?

Most AI researchers are currently missing a central piece of the puzzle: embodiment. It's tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognit...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...

Kalki Koechlin: Why can’t we deal with a woman being sexually active?

Kalki Koechlin is not very active on social media as she says she prefers to keep her private life just to herself. But even then she has constantly made news regarding her...

Echoes of The Past

At the present, when Donald Trump’s America is flexing its racist muscles and angling for a possible war, David Baldacci’s new book, No Man’s Land critici...

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

Make-a-Wish helps 7-Year-Old Jedi Defeat Darth Vader

The force was definitely with this one. A couple hundred people gathered at CityPlace in West Palm Beach Saturday night to witness 7-year-old Brady defeat Darth Vader. To b...

The Right To Choice

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined a woman’s plea to abort her 26-week-old foetus detected with Down’s Syndrome. Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves argued that...

Google's Algorithms Are Already Outperforming Pathologists

One of the more difficult things a doctor can do is diagnose cancer. That's not just because of the life-changing effects such a finding can have, but because distinguishin...