6th Edition | 15 Plays | 5 Languages | 6-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop

Gamma Rays Can Show Us Which Asteroids Are Worth Mining

An instrument built to take advantage of this ability could one day be common on space probes, and used to find what?s going on compositionally under the surface of an aste...

Driving Innovation For A Healthier India

The time period set by the nations of the world in 2000 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) comes to an end in December. Leaders from around the world met ...

Hollywood Executives' Quiet Ban On Women In The Movies, By The Numbers.

On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women...

Geena Davis: Unconscious Bias Is Hurting Women in Hollywood.

Geena Davis is making it her mission to educate Hollywood on gender equality. For years the actor has been very vocal about the dire need for equal gender representati...

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 ...

This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

Google Is Fixing a Dangerous Gmail Bug That Could Let Others Impersonate You

The flaw was spotted by independent security researcher Yan Zhu at the end of October. Zhu found that an attacker could send an email using a different name, and conceal th...

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...