Saudi women will no longer need men’s permission to seek education & health care Saudi Arabia is slowly – but surely – starting to join the modern world in terms of gender equality Though the kingdom is still one of the most gender segregated nations in the world, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al…
Teen invents bra that could detect breast cancer After almost losing his own mother to the disease, this Mexican teen has patented a bra that can detect early signs of breast cancer. 18-year-old Julian Rios Cantu is the designer of the Eva bra: a brazier with biosensors inside the lining that can moderate the temperature,…
India unveils ambitious plan to make every single car electric by 2030 In a bid against the hazardous air pollution plaguing the country, the energy minister of India has announced that they will be making sure that every car in the nation will be electrically-powered by 2030. The Indian government will be assisting the renewable automotive industry…
A major event to celebrate Montreal’s role in advancing human rights Concordia University’s Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), Amnesty International Canada, the United Committee of Armenian Organizations of Quebec and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, are joining forces to organize Rights City/Montréal, ville des droits humains, a major event…
Instagram actually helps users eat healthily, study says Instagram users post millions of food photos – whether to show off a sophisticated palate, make friends drool over chicken and waffles, or artfully arrange colorful macarons. A new study from University of Washington researchers describes how some people also turn to posting photos on Instagram to…
When art studio for mentally ill loses funding, money flows in from strangers This art studio has worked wonders on the health of those suffering from mental illness – so when they lost federal funding in 2015, things looked grim. Artbeat Studios is an art studio based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The founder himself, Nigel Bart, was…
This driverless electric pod is the delivery guy of the future Inside a new type of truck, there are no seats and no windows. The vehicle which founders call a “T-pod” is the first truck to be designed to never have a human inside. The driverless design makes it possible, the startup says, to…
Islamic and Arab art institute opening in New York Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani noticed something missing in New York City’s cultural institutions – there is the Swiss Institute, the Asia Society and the Jewish Museum, but there isn’t anything to represent Arab Muslim artists, until now. The 2,500 sq ft space will host…
Beyoncé launches college scholarship programmes for women Believe it or not, Beyoncé’s sixth solo disc Lemonade – and the HBO visual album that came with it – is already one year old. To mark the occasion Queen Be is going all out by launching a new scholarship programme aimed at sending young women to college in…
“Holy Grail” Metallic hydrogen is going to change everything Two Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating an entirely new substance long believed to be the “holy grail” of physics — metallic hydrogen, a material of unparalleled power that could one day propel humans into deep space. Scientists created the metallic hydrogen by pressurizing a hydrogen…