Search Result

Search Result

All That Glitters Is Not Green: Costa Rica's Renewables Conceal Dependence On Oil

Unless you’ve avoided social media for the last week, you probably know that last year, Costa Rica was able to produce 98% of its electricity without oil – a fe...

Read More

Diagnosing Disease With A Snapshot

The physician, Karen Gripp, chief of the Division of Medical Genetics at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware, noted that her patient, a toddler girl, ...

Read More

Growing Mega-Cities Will Displace Vast Tracts Of Farmland By 2030, Study Says

Our future crops will face threats not only from climate change, but also from the massive expansion of cities, a new study warns. By 2030, it’s estimated that urban ...

Read More

Why 2016 Was The Year Of The Algorithmic Timeline

2016 was the year of "post fact" news, but it was also the year of post-new news. 2016 was the year of the algorithmic timeline, in which tech companies dismantled the conc...

Read More

Stephen Hawking's Latest PSA Takes On 'Diet Tips'

Stephen Hawking, while a bona fide genius, is also the type of friend who regularly tells it like it is, even when you kind of wish he wouldn’t. Earlier this month, h...

Read More

Scientists Are Making Artificial Ice Storms

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of catastrophic weather events in the coming years. Regardless of how much carbon we c...

Read More

Salman Khan Joins Hands With BMC To Fix Open Defecation Problem

Salman Khan is reportedly worried about people defecating in the open outside his posh Carter Road residence and has complained about it in the recent past. The Brihanmumba...

Read More

90-Year-Old Runs In A Tribute To Manipur’s Women Warriors

Honouring women’s empowerment in India is about as rare as finding an ATM today that’s giving out hundreds with no line outside. So imagine our joy when we hear...

Read More

India’s Good Women Rights’ Laws Need Better Execution: UN

“India has a robust judiciary and there are good laws that can protect rights of women and improve gender equality but it needs to be implemented better,” said ...

Read More

Google to be powered 100% by renewable energy from 2017

Google’s data centres and the offices for its 60,000 staff will be powered entirely by renewable energy from next year, in what the company has called a “landma...

Read More