John Carlos Garza, a geneticist based a day’s drive south in Santa Cruz, has become a key figure in California’s effort to preserve its decimated salmon stocks. Using the latest genetic techniques, he and his team decide which individual fish should be bred together.

Solar power accounts for just 1 percent of India’s current electricity production, mostly through large plants that contribute power to the grid, but a generation of Indian energy entrepreneurs is out to prove that a faster, cleaner and ultimately more economical route to universal electrification is through solar home systems.

Within the maze of stalls are dried serpents sold as a cancer cure, as well as vats of crawling scorpions, said to reduce fever, and deer penises, advertised as the answer to erectile dysfunction.
Then there are the plastic sacks stuffed with manta ray gill plates: feathery filaments of cartilage that the rays — majestic cousins of the shark — use to filter plankton from seawater as they swim. Retailers claim that the gills are a time-tested panacea for modern ills, that they can increase the amount of breast milk, detoxify the blood, cure chickenpox, heal tonsillitisand clear a smoker’s lungs.

Vấn đề giáo dục giới tính, nạo phá thai và chính sách dân số của Việt Nam được phân tích trong một bài viết đăng trên tờ Economist. Dưới đây là nguyên văn bài viết.
Tỷ lệ nạo phá thai ở Việt Nam không có con số chính xác, nhưng được cho là một trong những quốc gia có tỷ lệ lớn nhất thế giới. Theo các nhà nghiên cứu ở Bệnh viện Phụ sản trung ương ở Hà Nội, 2/5 thai kỳ ở Việt Nam bị phá bỏ - gấp đôi con số mà Chính phủ đưa ra.
Sự thiếu hiểu biết về tình dục và các biện pháp tránh thai là nguyên nhân chủ yếu.

Women should be screened for depression during pregnancy and after giving birth, an influential government-appointed health panel said Tuesday, the first time it has recommended screening for maternal mental illness.

A COUNTRY that gives every citizen enough cash to live on whether she needs it or not: It’s got to be either a fool’s paradise or a profligate Northern European nation. And lo, in November, the Finnish governmentproposed paying every adult 800 euros or about $870 a month. Fits of this seemingly irrational generosity, called a universal basic income or U.B.I., are becoming surprisingly common. The Swiss will vote in a referendum on basic income this year. The Dutch city of Utrecht will soon start a basic-income pilot program. Canada’s ruling Liberal Party recently adopted a resolution calling for a similar experiment.

The state of women in tech isn't good: Unwanted sexual advances, frequently from superiors. Being told you are too aggressive or too quiet. Women getting overlooked at meetings, ignored even if they are in charge and left behind during networking events.

On Tuesday, Science, Nature and BuzzFeedreported a case involving a California Institute of Technology professor placed on unpaid leave for “unambiguous gender-based harassment.”
On the House floor, beside a poster of the moon with the words “Stop Sexism in Science!,” Ms. Speier said, “Some universities protect predatory professors with slaps on the wrist and secrecy just like the Catholic Church protected child molesting for many decades.”

On a humid, sweaty, honking afternoon last summer, two women were making their way through the court complex in the north Indian city of Meerut, searching for the office of the subdivisional magistrate.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Tsai Ing-wen was elected Taiwan’s president on Saturday, becoming the first woman to win the office. Voters gave her Democratic Progressive Party, which is skeptical of closer ties with China, control of Taiwan’s legislature for the first time, giving her broad authority to enact her policies in office.