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Gender

The Invisible Work That Women Do Around The World

Over the past 25 years, according to the United Nations, about 2 billion people have seen improvements in health care, sanitation, and job opportunities. That’s treme...

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Health

Lancet Report: On Healthcare, India Worst Among BRICS?Countries?

India is the poorest performer on health among the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), a new report card on the health scene in the country ...

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Health

Global Diet Is Getting Sweeter: Study

Currently, 68 per cent of packaged foods and beverages in US contain caloric sweeteners. The global diet is getting sweeter, particularly when it comes to beverages, a tren...

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Gender

Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen To Be Women

Everywhere you look, odds appear stacked against women in STEM. Young male scientists receive up to twice as much funding as their female counterparts in Boston&r...

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Sustainable Development

Researchers Want A Robotic Space Cleaner To Digest Debris And Turn It Into Fuel

Now in an Arxiv paper reported on by the MIT Technology Review, researchers from China have proposed a design for a space engine that can gobble up space jun...

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Health

Maternal Mortality Declining But Still Above Goal

Maternal mortality rates have dropped substantially over the past quarter century but still are not declining fast enough to meet ambitious international goals for eradicat...

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Trending

Mobile Dating Apps Spur HIV Epidemic Among Asia’s Teenagers, Says UN

Smartphone technology has increased the opportunities for casual sex and led to a spike in HIV infections among teenagers in Asia, researchers find United Nations research ...

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Sustainable Development

Tracking Planes Over The Ocean Is About To Get Easier

Speaking at this year’s annual meeting of the Canadian Space Society, Royal Military College of Canada (RMCC) researcher Dr. Ron Vincent said that the tracking t...

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Sustainable Development

Pigeons Could Help Detect Breast Cancer

The latest species to add to that list is the common pigeon (Columba livia). According to a study?by a team of researchers in the US published in?PLOS One, pigeons have an ...

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Environment

This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

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