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The Indian government is taking special steps to attract and retain women scientists. Nature reports,
Women scientists in India will soon be able to choose flexible working hours and even work from home if they have children below the [...]

Over at Nanopolitan, Abi raises the issue of the abysmally low budget allocation for government sponsored research and development in India. In response, Nitin points out that R&D should be left to private enterprise. Some interesting discussions in the comments section of both blogs (part of this write-up is essentially reposting a comment left on [...]

The government seems to be finally waking upto the serious crisis which Indian science faces.

The Department of Science and Technology has therefore come out with the scheme of INSPIRE to offer science as a career option by providing necessary opportunities for youth with aptitude for careers seeking innovation and psychic delight in addition to reasonable [...]

Interesting new research points towards the benefits of adopting a team approach in treating patients.
That, not run-of-the-mill second opinions, is what Sabel set out to study when he examined what happened to 149 breast cancer patients who, in one year alone, came to Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center after being diagnosed, biopsied and getting a [...]

A new research suggests that people who have drunk moderate amounts of alcohol are more likely to recover from brain trauma.
The researchers nevertheless found clear evidence that in some cases, a certain amount of alcohol helps the brain recover from blunt trauma injury. And those findings, they said, could lead doctors to develop head injury [...]