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A Baby Box Aims To Save Infant And Maternal Lives

Under a new student-led nonprofit aimed at reducing infant and maternal mortality in South Asia, expectant mothers would receive a free box full of newborn essentials like ...

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Sustainable Development

New Technology Lets Scientists See The Brain With Nanoscale Resolution

Neuroscientists have begun testing the most powerful brain imaging technology ever created, and it’s already helped them answers questions about how connections form ...

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Health

New Technology Lets Scientists See The Brain With Nanoscale Resolution

Neuroscientists have begun testing the most powerful brain imaging technology ever created, and it’s already helped them answers questions about how connections form ...

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Environment

Despite Waging A 'War On Pollution,' China's Air Is Still Really Filthy

A majority of China's cities are still suffering under unhealthy levels of air pollution as the country struggles to reach its pollution goals. China's Ministry of Environm...

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Environment

The Economic Options For Combatting Climate Change

The Federal Government Announced Today That 2014 Was The Hottest Year For The Planet In The 135 Years That Records Have Been Kept. Greenhouse Gas Concentration, Land Surfac...

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Gender

Your Children’s Toys Are Perpetuating Gender Discrimination

In my work in the media and in my role as a mother of both a young man and woman, I have been regularly stunned at how girls are routinely labeled, classified, and shaped i...

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Gender

Working Moms Have More Successful Daughters And More Caring Sons, Harvard Business School Study Says

it’s looking less and less warranted. According to a working paper (pdf) published June 19 by the Harvard Business School, daughters of working mothers are more likel...

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Festivals

11 highlights of SIFF 2015’s final weekend

On SIFF’s final weekend, highlights include a screening of the once-presumed-lost 1916 silent film “Sherlock Holmes” (starring William Gillette, who playe...

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Environment

Climate-Change Solutions

AGAINST THE BACKDROP of student-led protests urging divestment from fossil-fuel companies, President Drew Faust—declaring that “the challenge of climate change ...

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Health

Gates Foundation Head Challenges Students To Pursue Big Ambitions In Public Health

As the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads a multi-billion dollar effort to improve health and promote equity for...

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