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Sustainable Development

Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes

Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks ...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Hack A Human Cell And Reprogram It Like A Computer

CELLS ARE BASICALLY tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly. If you chug a Frappuccino, your blood sugar spikes, and your pancreatic cells get t...

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Gender

Cycling Cross-Country For Gender Neutrality

For 27-year-old Shruthi Shivashankaramurthy, there was more to life than being known as the daughter of a former vice-chancellor of Mangalore University, or earning a hands...

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Health

Time To Ditch The Pill? World's First Contraception App That Is As Effective As A Condom Is Given A Seal Of Approval

An contraception app that uses body temperature to track a woman's menstrual cycle has been given the seal of approval. Natural Cycles records daily temperature and uses an...

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Sustainable Development

Jason Chen Wants To Make Word Processors Obsolete

Once upon a time, Microsoft Word reigned supreme over a kingdom inhabited by the world's most boring software platforms: word processors. But thanks to people like Jason Ch...

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Environment

Air Pollution Is Driving Us All Down A Road To Ruin

That the government is now at last being forced to do more to reduce the dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollution is welcome news (Court defeat for government on ...

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Health

Could An Algorithm Replace The Pill?

Cern scientist Elina Berglund developed an app to monitor her own fertility, with impressive results. Now thousands of women are using Natural Cycles to prevent – and...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why This Software Engineer Turned Artist From Bhopal Was Picked To Paint Scenes For A Film On Van Gogh

Van Gogh is easily one of the most reputed artists in the post-impressionist movement, which took root in France in the early 1920s. But the story of his tragic death is mo...

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Gender

Unsurprisingly, Gender Neutral Textbooks Make For Better Students

Last week, two researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) presented a study that suggests gender-neutral course literature help...

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Health

WHO Develops Electronic Solution To Child, Maternal Deaths

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital-based study on 10,000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour...

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