The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak tests global preparedness, vaccine development and the lessons learned from past health emergencies.

Every migration carries things that cannot be packed into a suitcase. People may leave behind houses, familiar streets, neighbourhood temples, family courtyards and the sounds and smells associated ...

Empathy is not a collection of clever phrases, nor is it an ability belonging more naturally to one gender. It is revealed in the way people listen, acknowledge emotions, handle disagreement, accept ...

Yet on 9 June 1964, this diminutive man became Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy. Over the next nineteen months, India would confront food shortages, economic pressures, internal ...

That instinct usually comes from love rather than a desire for control. Parents possess something children do not yet have in abundance: experience. Adults can often recognise a solution quickly ...

A teacher may report that the child rarely answers questions, avoids speaking during group activities, communicates by nodding or pointing, or speaks only in an almost inaudible whisper. Some children ...

Waking with a numb or tingling hand is often caused by temporary nerve compression from sleeping with the wrist, elbow or arm in an awkward position, but recurring symptoms can point to conditions ...

University rankings have become powerful measures of academic prestige, influencing students, funding, recruitment and institutional priorities worldwide. But when universities begin shaping their ...

Rema Pisharody is a writer from Bangalore. She is an environmentalist and a nature lover. She holds a Masters in Sociology and is a former employee of BPL Corporate Office, Bangalore. Poetry for her ...

More than four thousand years ago, an artist shaped a small human figure in wax. The figure was slender, confident and strikingly informal, with one hand resting on her hip and the other hanging ...

Yet the kidneys have been active throughout the night. These two relatively small organs continually filter the blood, remove metabolic waste, regulate the body’s balance of water and electrolytes, ...

A work of art created nearly a thousand years ago has found itself at the centre of a thoroughly twenty-first-century argument. The Bayeux Tapestry, the extraordinary 11th-century embroidered account ...