Month: February 2017

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Disability Activists and EC Work to Make Assembly Polls More Accessible

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar 21/02/2017

Special mobile apps, software, infrastructure, training for personnel and...

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Making the Right Decisions on India’s Health Spending

Laura Downey and Soumya Swaminathan 20/02/2017

The government has decided to move to an 'explicit'...

Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg announce the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to cure all diseases by the end of the century during a news conference at UCSF Mission Bay in San Francisco, California

Billionaires Say They’ll End Disease but Evolution Says Otherwise

Jim Kozubek 20/02/2017

Comparing the body to a machine with bugs to...

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When Schoolgirls Interact With Scientists

Nandita Jayaraj 20/02/2017

There are far too few occasions in an Indian...

A memory is made up of a network of neurons in the brain. Credit: UCI Research/Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0

Shared False Memories: What’s Behind the ‘Mandela Effect’?

Caitlin Aamodt 20/02/2017

The Mandela effect is a fascinating case study in...

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In Tamil Nadu, Sixteen Years Of Sand Mining Loot Officially Termed ‘Illegal’

Sandhya Ravishankar 20/02/2017

Despite political turmoil, Tamil Nadu is cracking down hard...

People ride amid the smog in Beijing

China Names and Shames Cities Over Smog Controls

Ben Blanchard 20/02/2017

While China is in the third year of a...