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Environment

Unless Earth Is Hit By A Huge Asteroid, 2015 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year On Record

"This marked the sixth consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken and was also the?greatest departure from average for any month?in the 1,630 mon...

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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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Gender

Can We End Female Genital Cutting In A Generation?

Five years ago, over 3 million girls were at risk of undergoing female genital cutting, a process that involves the partial or complete removal of a girl’s external g...

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Gender

Women’s Empowerment Gets A Fillip In Advertising In India

MARKETING strategies can never ignore women as they are pivotal in household purchase decisions. So can advertising strategies be any different? A recent flurry of ads...

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Festivals

Thessaloniki Film Festival A Home For Independent Cinema

The 56th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the premier cinema event in Greece, screened more than 200 films in a movie packed ten days. Add to that the side events,...

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Hollywood

Steven Tyler Gets Celebrity Support For New Charity Initiative

Steven Tyler has announced the launch of his new signature philanthropic initiative to help girls who have been abused and neglected: Janie’s Fund. A partne...

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Health

WHO Survey Reveals Public Misunderstanding About Antibiotic Resistance

Public knowledge about antibiotic resistance is still weak and this is something we should worry about. A new survey conducted in a number of countries shows that people ha...

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Gender

How Does The Gender Gap Affect Cardiologists?

Despite efforts to increase gender diversity in cardiology, major differences in job characteristics and pay persist between men and women who treat heart patients, accordi...

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Hollywood

Taylor Swift Donates 25,000 Scholastic Books To New York City Schools.

Today, singer, songwriter Taylor Swift and Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, announced a donation of 25,0...

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Environment

The Dispersants Used After The BP Blowout Did More Harm Than Good

Chemical dispersants were supposed to make it easier for undersea bacteria to digest the oil that poured into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Read More