Month: October 2016

A mother’s voice can soothe a child in stressful situations, reducing levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, and increasing levels of oxytocin, the social bonding hormone. Credit: valentinap/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How a Mother’s Voice Shapes Her Baby’s Developing Brain

Kate Fehlhaber 10/10/2016

It is now scientifically proven that most of us...

If we think of surrogacy as a form of work, it doesn’t look that different from many other jobs in our increasingly casualised and precarious global economic context. Credit: Alick Sung/Flickr

Can Surrogacy Ever Escape the Taint of Global Exploitation?

Katharine Dow 10/10/2016

Surrogacy is a technology. And like any other technology...

A woman walks on debris in an area devastated by Hurricane Matthew in Port-a-Piment, Haiti

Haiti: Hurricane Matthew Death Toll Reaches 1,000

Joseph Guyler Delva 10/10/2016

Government officials said they had to start burying the...

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Infinite in All Directions: Nobel’s Women, Meghnad’s Caste, Tantalum’s Decay

Vasudevan Mukunth 10/10/2016

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

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Aruna – The Leather Detective

Nandita Jayaraj 09/10/2016

Aruna Dhathathreyan, a biophysicist at the Central Leather Research...

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Why the Otters Left Goa – and Are Coming Back Now

Mukta Patil 09/10/2016

Illegal sand- and iron-ore-mining around Goa has fragmented otters'...

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To Boldly Go Toward New Frontiers, We First Need to Learn From Our Colonial Past

Alice Gorman 09/10/2016

Technology had enabled humans to explore the deep sea,...