Month: May 2016

People travel on a boat as they move to safer places through a flooded road in Chennai, December 2, 2015. Credit: Reuters

Cities Unprepared for Rising Disaster Risk, Says World Bank

Laurie Goering 17/05/2016

As cities expand and revamp, they have the opportunity...

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Siddhartha Mukherjee Prepares Us for a Crucial Moment in the History of the Genome

Vasudevan Mukunth 17/05/2016

With his new book, the author takes a step...

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A Brief History of Telling Time

Kenneth Grattan 17/05/2016

From sundials to atomic clocks, a journey through the...

Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and current Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, speaks during an interview in New York

World Needs Action on Forest Land Rights to Meet Climate Goals, Says Helen Clark

Paola Totaro 16/05/2016

The former prime minister of New Zealand has said...

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Start of LHC’s 2016 Run Suffused With Hopes of a New Particle

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/05/2016

This year is when we might discover another foundational...

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Medical Council’s NEET: Unfair, Unjust, Arbitrary

Rajeev Dhavan 16/05/2016

The real impact of NEET, which has been unconstitutionally...

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Do No Harm to Life on Mars? The Ethical Limits of the ‘Prime Directive’

Kelly C. Smith 15/05/2016

The solution is to do the hard work of...