Month: April 2018

We must nurture reason, not faith, in DNA profiling technology to be able to hold the legislature and the executive to standards higher than their own confidence and interests. Credit: NeuPaddy/pixabay

India’s Blind Faith in DNA and Aadhaar Profiling Will Lead to No Good

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/04/2018

Aadhaar and DNA fingerprinting are both ideas worth considering...

Women-Engineering

Tackling Gender Inequality in STEM? Consider Culture, A New Study Says

Cathleen O'Grady, Undark Magazine 27/04/2018

For the numerous organisations dedicated to addressing the problem...

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Want to Track ‘Zero Shadow Days’? There’s (Now) an App for That

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam 27/04/2018

The ZSD app aims to promote school students to...

One of the footprints found on Calvert Island, found to be ~13,000 years old. Credit: Duncan McLaren

North America’s First Immigrants May Have Walked Along the Beach to Go South

Lakshmi Supriya 27/04/2018

Scientists have found 13,000-year-old human footprints on an island...

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A Journey to the Centre of the Cell

Harini Barath 26/04/2018

Scientists from Bengaluru have designed tiny motors that can...

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Blaming Dr Kafeel Khan Is a Shrewd Attempt By the State to Exonerate Itself

Sarojini Nadimpally and Deepa Venkatachalam 26/04/2018

The Uttar Pradesh government had the power to ensure...

A health ministry worker fumigates a house to kill mosquitoes during a campaign against dengue and chikungunya and to prevent the entry of Zika virus in Managua, Nicaragua

Emerging Infectious Diseases in India: the Scourge Could Boost Urban Development

Olivier Telle 26/04/2018

These infectious diseases do not recognise administrative frontiers, much...