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WHO Report: 1.4 Billion People Worldwide Living with Hypertension, Urgent Action Needed

WHO Report: 1.4 Billion People Worldwide Living with Hypertension, Urgent Action Needed

Geneva, Switzerland— The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its second Global Hypertension Report, revealing that 1.4 billion…

Oct 7, 20253 min read
MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

New York — At the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, MetLife announced a major three-year partnership…

Oct 7, 20252 min read
Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be…

Oct 7, 20256 min read
Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Kathmandu, October 6 — The body of 46-year-old Korean national Taejun Park has been airlifted to Kathmandu through…

Oct 6, 20251 min read
Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut…

Oct 6, 20255 min read
Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

A research group in Japan has suggested that ash released from volcanic eruptions on Nishinoshima Island—part of Japan’s…

Oct 6, 20254 min read

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CeBIT 2016 Conference Program Announced

CeBIT 2016 Conference Program Announced

ByAmrita TuladharFeb 8, 20165 min read

Asia Pacific’s largest and longest running business technology event, has released this year’s conference programs.

Assistant Director-General of the WHO presented lecture on combating global antimicrobial resistance

Assistant Director-General of the WHO presented lecture on combating global antimicrobial resistance

ByAmrita TuladharFeb 7, 20163 min read

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, now constitutes a significant threat against effective treatments for infectious disease worldwide.

MRS Congratulates Hideo Hosono on Receiving 2016 Japan Prize

MRS Congratulates Hideo Hosono on Receiving 2016 Japan Prize

ByAmrita TuladharFeb 2, 20162 min read

The Materials Research Society (MRS) congratulates Hideo Hosono of the Tokyo Institute of Technology on receiving the 2016 Japan Prize in the area of Materials and Production.

Wisconsin’s Sean Carroll will be honored with Lewis Thomas Prize

Wisconsin’s Sean Carroll will be honored with Lewis Thomas Prize

ByAmrita TuladharFeb 1, 20163 min read

Madison evolutionary biologist, educator and author Sean B. Carroll will be presented with The Rockefeller University’s Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.