Month: June 2017

This image shows a numerical simulation of a binary black hole merger with masses and spins consistent with the third and most recent LIGO observation. Caption and credit: University of Maryland

India’s Star Rises Higher With LIGO’s Third Gravitational Wave Detection

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/06/2017

Indian physicists verified a century-old prediction and then used...

Visitor shakes hands with an operational robot policeman at the opening of the 4th Gulf Information Security Expo and Conference (GISEC) in Dubai

Life-Sized Robots Join Dubai Police to Fight Crime

Reuters 01/06/2017

If it works, the Dubai police plans on making...

Dr Tedrous _Reuters

Three Ideas on How the New WHO Chief Can Build Health Systems From the Bottom Up

Kabir Sheikh 01/06/2017

Tedros Ghebreyesus Adhanom has set universal health coverage as...

An internally displaced woman uses a water pump to fill her containers at the water point in Zam Zam IDP camp in Al Fasher, northern Darfur

The ‘Water-Employment-Migration’ Explosive Nexus

Baher Kamal 01/06/2017

A Global Water Partnership-led forum in December 2016 found...

Credit: dimitrisvetsikas1969/pixabay

The Flamingo’s One-Legged Act, Ants’ Princess Pheromones, Pampered Orangutans

Janaki Lenin 01/06/2017

A quick review of interesting research on living things...