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Sustainable Development

How Bioengineered Bacteria Could Give Robots A Living Brain

Imagine a future where robots with organic brains could be controlled through their microbiome. That might become reality, if researchers at Virginia Tech can transfer thei...

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Gender

Sweden: Pioneers In Gender Equality

The film industry has a notoriously strong masculine bias. Gender disparity is entrenched and women continue to face an uphill battle. The number of women in some areas of ...

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Environment

How Climate Change Is Making Wildfires Worse

In a vicious cycle, wildfires are also making climate change worse, a study finds increasingly hot and dry climates, the result of global climate change, have led to a wors...

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Festivals

Locarno To Open With Demme's 'Flash'

World premieres for new films by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Hong Sangsoo, Ben Rivers; Southpaw, Trainwreck among Piazza Grande titles. The 68th Locarno Film Festival (August 5...

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Hollywood

Sandra Bullock To Sign Custom Minions Shoes For Charity Auction.

Here is your chance to bid on a one-of-a-kind custom pair of shoes made by luxury UK designer Rupert Sanderson that are inspired by Universal Pictures and Illumination Ente...

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Bollywood

Kangana Ranaut On Her Journey In Bollywood

In a candid interview, Kangna Ranaut opens up about her journey from being a diffident outsider to becoming a poised woman of substance in Bollywood, nine years after enter...

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Health

AIDS Epidemic Can End By 2030: UNAIDS

India has achieved a reduction of more than 20 per cent in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, according to a report released by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Prog...

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Sustainable Development

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

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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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Festivals

Two Big Documentaries Premiere At Christchurch Film Festival

A Christchurch film festival is about to feature two world premieres on New Zealand’s two biggest stories of the past decade – the Christchurch earthquakes and ...

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