British born, Nicola Ann Spaldin, FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at the ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics has been awarded € 100, 000 and the L’Oreal-UNESCO, For Women in Science prize for Europe for her revolutionary research in the field of material sciences. Nicola, a Cambridge graduate and a PhD…
Junior Doctor Adam Kay’s confessional indignities and joys of being a junior doctor in the UK National Health Service, based on diaries kept between 2004 and 2010. The moment you set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realised that there’s quite a lot they don’t teach you at medical school, as…
At the dawn of the new era, when science fiction is fast becoming reality as AI transforms, crime, war, justice, job and society to what it means to be human. Inspired by a visit to London’s Science Museum in 2014, Max Tegmark, the American Physicist and professor of Physics at MIT and the co-founder of…
A 36- vehicle pileup which occurred at 7:45 am (10:45GMT) when a trailer truck carrying ink collided with another trailer carrying scrap metal and caught fire, at the motorway bridge 70 feet above, in the City of São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday30th August 2017. However, speeding vehicles clocking 50mph behind could not stop in time…
Student Tution fees protest rally turned nasty as the authorities have to resort to water cannon in Santiago Los Heros in Chile today. Around 1000 students protested´peacefully to demonstrate against college fees.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating India’s 70th Indpendence Day, addressed the crowd from the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi and said “ only hugs could solve the problems of the territory which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces”. and has appealed to the nation to stand together with families of…
Dozens of elephants and rafts have been deployed to rescue over 500 people trapped by floods, and forced out thousands of residents out of their houses. According to Red Cross 100, 000 people have been affected. Several hotels also affected in Sauraha, Chitwan district trapping tourists. Landslides and floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have…
Robert Winder examines the historical introspection on the idiosyncrasies of the English, and the often general assumption that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas, as his new work examines the shooting of England’s last wolf by Shropshire knight Peter Corbet. However, one can never track down the moment a…
Laura Shapiro’s book reveals, language of food, using six famous women through the culinary prism eyes of food and cooking including what they ate and reveals their attitudes towards food. William Knight, Philosophy professor, was editing Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries for publication in 1897, and got exasperated with several petty details that popped up in her…
James Damore, a Google engineer, who had been on a PhD programme in systems biology at Harvard University, wrote a memo arguing that women were less suited than men to engineering and leadership jobs in the tech industry have been sacked. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sharply criticised the engineer, saying that he had breached…