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The Database Don

SMU Associate Professor Kyriakos Mouratidis aims to maximise the potential of databases to provide solutions to real-world problems.

Academia

How Badly Do India’s Universities Need To Chase World Rankings?

Prof. Pushkar of BITS Pilani discusses whether India’s higher education sector should focus on chasing world university rankings.

Academia

The Challenges Of Publishing As An Indian Academic

Prof. Pushkar of BITS Pilani discusses the challenge of improving the quality of research in India.

Features

GYSS 2014: Start Companies For The Right Reasons, Say Eminent Scientists

At the Global Young Scientists Summit 2014, a panel of distinguished scientists discussed how research should be driven by curiosity, not money.

Features

GYSS 2014: Nobel Laureates Say Have Fun Doing Science

At the 2014 Global Young Scientists Summit, a panel of scientific leaders discussed the challenges they face as scientists.

Features

GYSS 2014: Is Red Meat Consumption Linked To Colorectal Cancer?

At the Global Young Scientists Summit 2014, Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen discusses the link between high consumption of red meat and colorectal cancer.

Features

GYSS 2014: Making Diseases Personal

Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover speaks to budding researchers at the Global Young Scientists Summit 2014 on the revolution of personalized medicine.

In the Lab

Study Shows That Babies Can Detect Different Languages

Babies understand that people who speak different languages use words differently, according to a study.

Study: Tripling Tobacco Taxes Could Prevent 200m Premature Deaths

Tripling tobacco tax globally would prevent 200 million premature deaths this century from lung cancer and other diseases, researchers say.

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