This Bacteria-Powered Microrobot Navigates via Electric Fields

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic sy...

New Court Ruling Is Massive Shift For Gender Rights In India

Women can legally head households, a court in India ruled this week in a monumental verdict for women’s rights. The decision will allow the eldest female in a family ...

True Review Television - New Beginnings, New Content

It’s been a week of new shows and annual shows showcasing a makeover. The weekend marked endings and a beginning. Monday night too signaled a beginning.

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Why 2016 Is The Year To Shake Up Humanitarian Funding

Some say the system to fund the humanitarian response to conflicts and disasters is broken beyond repair. Some say it just needs a tweak. But everyone agrees, global humani...

Sundance: Netflix To Land Indian Sex Comedy 'Brahman Naman'

Netflix is nearing a deal to add yet another Sundance title to its slate. The company is close to a pact for worldwide streaming rights to “Brahman Naman,” Vari...

Taking Community Health To The Market

As she rocks her restless baby, Tia Pertiwi listens as three women with aprons imprinted with images of the reproductive system explain how contraception works.  Besid...

WEF Creates Task Force With Carney, Rajan To Study Global Financial System’

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has created a new task force with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and his counterpart at the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, to s...

How Astronomers Will Actually Image The Solar System's Ninth Planet

The minds of space nerds around the world collectively exploded yesterday, after astronomers announced that there is likely an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet in the oute...

From Davos: This Idea Could Transform Global Food Systems

Global food security is a hot topic here at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Will we hit on an easy solution to this enormous challenge in five days in Davos? Of course not....