Britain Needs to Move Its Antarctic Base Because the Ice Shelf Is Cracking

You can?t stop nature, so there?s only one thing for it: the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is setting up to relocate Halley VI, the latest version of the Halley Research S...

Small Metal Grate Makes Big Impact On Environment, Health

A University of Iowa researcher created an inexpensive metal insert for primitive cookstoves, such as this one used in a remote village in India, that may decrease global w...

Now That It's Easy To Encrypt Our Chats, Encrypting Metadata Comes Next

There are lots of apps that make it?easy to encrypt your phone calls and chats. But your metadata?the data?about?who you're talking to, when, and more?is more difficult to ...

HIV Cases Dip, High-Risk Groups Still A Worry

HIVAIDS epidemic.? The first 29 years were marked with victory as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) metamorphosed from being the deadliest word in public health to jus...

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...

Breast-Feeding Is Good For Mothers, Not Just Babies, Studies Suggest

Breast milk may provide the ideal nourishment for an infant, but two recent studies are putting a different spin on the bottle-versus-breast debate, suggesting it is mother...

Boeing Says It's Made The Lightest Metal Material In The World

The product, called microlattice, is 100 times lighter than styrofoam, according to Boeing, and is made with interconnected hollow tubes. Its structure is similar to that o...

20 Must Watch Films At Jagran Film Festival

Beginning with ‘Standing Tall’ directed by Emanuelle Bercot which opened the Cannes Film Festival this year, the 6th edition of Jagran Film Festival presents an...

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...