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Rama’s Got a Heart for Science

Nandita Jayaraj 29/10/2017

Valapadasu Rama is developing a tool that instantly identifies...

Repeal the 8th amendment campaigners hold a banner outside government buildings calling for a referendum on the introduction of laws on abortion on the same day as Ireland begins another round of negotiations to form a Government in Dublin, Ireland April 6, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Five Years After Indian Woman Who Was Denied an Abortion Died, Will Ireland Finally Reform Its Laws?

Severyna Magill 28/10/2017

A parliamentary committee is currently debating the question on...

Philip Pullman. Credit: Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Philip Pullman Sheds Light on Science and Religion in ‘His Dark Materials’

Kanta Dihal 28/10/2017

Pullman shows how science – like religion – can...

Europeans inspect statues over a century after first contact. Carlo Bottillega 1827

Easter Island – A Sustainable Society That Has Been Falsely Blamed for Its Own Demise

Catrine Jarman 25/10/2017

How did Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, carry out...

Natasha Gurung, a horticulturalist at the Indian Agriculture Research Institute, Kalimpong. Credit: Aashima Dogra

Analysis: How Implicit Biases Hamper Women’s Participation in Science

Aneree Parekh and Arathy Puthillam 24/10/2017

Despite well-meaning government programmes, true gender equality cannot be...

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In Conversation With a Scintillating Nuclear Physicist

Nandita Jayaraj 21/10/2017

Maitreyee Saha Sarkar deals with work on nuclear structure...

Women who remain on the island after the men migrate take shelter in a stilt house during floods.

Flood-Ravaged Islands of Sundarbans Need Women-Centric Interventions

Sayanti Sengupta and Nirmalya Choudhury 20/10/2017

After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island...