A Growth Industry: Swedish App May Mean An End To Physical Contraception Methods

The "fertility awareness" contraceptive method - timing unprotected sex to coincide with less fertile portions of a menstrual cycle - is an enduring means of avoiding pregn...

Tasmania's Coastline Glows In The Dark As Plankton Turn Blue

The waters along Tasmania’s north-west coastline have taken on a bizarre, glowing appearance in recent days. Photographs taken off Preservation Bay and Rocky Cape sho...

What you’ll find at 2017 Atlanta Film Festival

Atlanta film-lovers are in luck. The 41st Atlanta Film Festival is back from March 24 to April 2, presenting a busy schedule of over 190 films including features, documenta...

How Two Lower Income Mumbai Boys Became Extraordinary Ballet Dancers Who Could Put India On The Map

Manish and Amir do swift high jumps when their turn in the class comes and everybody is left in awe. Both have been in class since 8.30 a.m and their mentor and teacher, 72...

Shilpa Lends Grace To Women Empowerment Gala

Bollywood actress and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty-Kundra attended women empowerment gala held here to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 3. It turned out to ...

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...

How Working Remotely Is Helping Women Close The Gender Gap In Tech

It is no secret that I am a big advocate for remote teams. Since launching my startup in Bali, I have hired top talent from all over the world to help build Mailbird into w...

INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

NASA's Adorable Pop-Up Rovers Are Designed to Explore Harsh Alien Terrains

These origami-inspired vehicles are currently in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and are designed to tackle the kinds of tricky, high-risk terrain that hav...