Month: June 2018

A Map of the Square and Stationary Earth by Professor Orlando Ferguson, South Dakota, 1893. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics

Bastiaan T Rutjens 02/06/2018

How is it possible that science, the products of...

Younger fishers have started to diversify their sources of income, such as by training others in water-based adventure sports. Source: YouTube

Gulf of Mannar: Trouble in Paradise – Part III

The Wire Staff 02/06/2018

The third of a three-part video series about the...

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Delhi Government Hospital Out of Hep C Drugs, Alleges NGO

The NGO had in April written to the authorities...

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Tom and Jerry Set to Map Water on Earth From Space

Prakash Chandra 02/06/2018

The GRACE-FO mission promises to open up a new...

A medical illustration from 'Quain's Elements of Anatomy, Eighth Edition, Vol.II' (by William Sharpey MD, LLD, FRS L&E, Allen Thomson, MD, LLD, FRS L&E, and Edward Albert Schafer) depicts the anterior view of the uterus and its appendages, 1876. Credit: VintageMedStock/Getty Images via Undark.org

One Woman’s Encounter with #MeToo in the Medical System

Kate Telma 02/06/2018

In Abby Norman's book 'Ask Me About My Uterus',...

Medics wearing protective gear examine a patient at a hospital in Kozhikode in the southern state of Kerala, India May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Stringer

Woman Under Nipah Observation Dies

The death toll from Nipah has risen to 16...

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Rather Than Blaming Bats for Nipah Infection, We Should Improve Public Health

Haritha John and S. Gopikrishna Warrier 01/06/2018

As the southwest monsoon crosses the Kerala coast and...