Year: 2017

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After Surviving Drought, Kerala Aims to Catch Rain Where It Falls

Ajith Lawrence and M.M. Paniyil 02/06/2017

After the century’s worst drought, Kerala is getting ready...

Rosana Vieira Alves and her 5-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, pose for picture in the sea of Porto de Galinhas, a beach located in Ipojuca, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, March 2, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino/Files

India Used Questionable Loophole to Hide Its Zika Cases From the WHO

Anoo Bhuyan 02/06/2017

Indian officials say there was no responsibility to inform...

Front view of locked synchronous motion in a rotary motor. Credit: 10.1126/science.aam8808

Scientists Playing Molecular LEGO Unlock New Achievement: Synchronous Rotors

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/06/2017

A dutch Nobel laureate and his colleagues have built...

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...